I had been looking forward to doing my ride along with a City of Muskegon police officer. I was supposed to ride with Chad Wilson, but he got tied up with a call so I rode with Deputy Logan Copeyon. He is 21 years old. He has worked for the City for almost 2 years. Starting salary is around $43,000 and after 4 years, they make $69,000.
Our first call was a medical call at a gas station. Each officer has a neighborhood they are assigned to for road patrol. Logan’s area was 117 which is the central city near Wood St and Irwin. The officer has to log each call, as well as write a report that is reviewed by a command officer.
We stopped at liquor stores known for drug activity and used binoculars to look at license plates and run the plates in LEIN to see if they had insurance or any warrants. If one person had no insurance, we would drive after them real fast and put on the flashers to stop them and give them a ticket.
We got a call for a violation of a PPO order, stopped to serve a subpoena on someone, and arrested a girl and drove her to jail so I saw part of the booking process. It was quite an interesting evening. I know I couldn’t do that job. You don’t know what kind of situations you will get into. My shift was from 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The officers do 12 hour shifts.
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