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During the last two months, the book dealing with things officers hand, we left the hospital at 9:00 pains and not a heart attack. Waites
police had been called to break up at mentioned in most training hand- p.m. waited around to find out what would
least four serious assaults between bos sc as r aining and- It took ahother half hour to log happen to the man, so that he could
her and several male acquaintances books, such as reminding officers to and tag the evidence at City Hall. write up another report.
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A few days earlier, Jenny had stabbed He's also working on a fiction Waites deposited the clothes in a As we pulled out of the hotel,
her male roommate. Police officers nov and som rt toes locked shelf and put the samples in a there was only one hour left on the
had also been called to her apartment oesn tel.sfellow ofiesabtmidget refrigerator marked "For Evi- shift, and we were finally getting a
numerous times on noise com- is ttell his fellow officers a dence Use Only." break for dinner.
plaints. Waites told me, "They often get wrblishedtin. "a t y ift y As we left the station, Waites We returned to the Lamplighter
beat each other up. Sometimes they flack ie, Iwon't get any pointed out a small nick circled with for hamburgers. Waites spent the
report it, sometimes they don't." fa white chalk on a brick in the wall. first 15 minutes there filling out his
We waited for an hour and a half inally,at 8:25,in followed The nick was a bullet hole from an reports. The rest of the time he told
while the doctor examined Jenny. Waites into the examing rod heard unexplained attempt on an officer's me his opinions about the
While I was waiting in front of the about but never seen before. She was
examination room, Jenny's room- only 28, but street life had given her 'One minute you're eating your lunch, and the
mate showed up, dressed in shorts the look of a much older woman.
and a t-shirt and clutching a pack of Her hair was tied back to expose the next minute someone is threatening your life.'
Malboros in his hand. bruises on her face, one of which had
Waites called the man over and been stitched up. -Ann Arbor Police Officer Dan Waites
asked if he knew what had happened Her lips were swollen and all of_____________________________
the night before. The inan said he her front teeth were crooked or
hadn't seen Jenny since several hours missing. She was thin with deep life several years'ago.
before she was assaulted. "I had to grey eyes. She shivered in her We went to the Lamplighter partdment to rate patrol officers.
put her out (of the apartment) be- hospital gown. Her clothes, spattered restaurant for dinner, the most Officers are measured against each
cause she was acting crazy. You with blood, lay on a chair by the popular police hangout. But before oer mare aghi efor
know, she stabbed me," the man examining table. we got out of the car, the dispatcher mance in eleven different eategories.
said. Waites nodded, "I know." Waites took out a police form and called with a code one emergency: Police administrators say the
While we were waiting, Waites began asking the questions. He there was a heart attack victim at the productivity system is the only way
told me about the special precautions started off with easy ones: What is Arbor Lodge Motel on Washtenaw toykeed tyac o oics eoryy
he takes while on the job. Like ev~ ornmWe er o on od to keep track of officers perfor-
htaewhlontejbLiee-your name? When were you born? Road. mance, but Waites dislikes the sys-
ery cop, Waites is aware that his Do you remember where it hap- Waites switched on the emergen- tm bu Wits foses titiy
uniform makes him an automatic pened? His voice was gentle but cy light and revved up the sirens. As tem because it fosters competition
target. steady. If she couldn't answer a we sped down Washtenaw at 60 Waites called this day negative
"Sometimes you just don't have question, she became frustrated, but mph, Waites took a swig of hissye hgatop r o
control. Once in a while you'll get Waltes did not press her to answer. Pepsi and proceeded to weave
killed when you haven't made any She recalled the incident as best through the traffic.
mistakes, like the officers in she could, but she could not remem- When we finally arrived at the
Inkster," he said. Waites has his own ber where or when the rape occurred, motel, paramedics had already helped
horror stories. An officer he knew in only that it was in the vicinity of the man, who suffered from chest N E E I
Houston was murdered when he West Park. She knew her attackers
stopped a wanted man for a traffic only by their first names.
offen s. Although Jenny said she intended
The pressure at work is some- to press charges against her attack-
thing Waites tries to leave behind era, Waites later tofd me he doubted
when he goes home, which is one she would since she and her acquain- N 4C A T S
reason he lives in Dexter instead of tances had not pressed charges
Ann Arbor. He keeps his home life against each other in previous inci-
well separated from his life as a cop. dents. "We don't like a situation If your MCAT score needs
He doesn't take overtime when he where nobody cares what happened to the experts in test ped
can help it, partially because he gets anyway. Those are frustrating be- jtthexpers otetprepas
a lot of involuntary overtime with cuywe waste a ot of me," Walt- Our test-taking techniques
special assignments and appearances es said. will helpyou be tn top condi
in court. Waites put Jenny's bloody onysharpen your scientificI
He spends much of his extra time clothes in a plastic bag to bring back ing, problem-solving, and es
writing, a hobby which he's had to the station as evidence. He also Summer courses are regis
since he was an undergraduate stu- took a sealed envelope containing best in test prep-Kaplan. A
dent at Michigan State University. samples to be tested by the State thatyoudeserve
Waites is working on a police hand- Police in Northville. Evidence in *t d e
Student committee
ily, Friday, July 31, 1987 - Page11
,th work
with regard to the productivity sys-
tem, because his cases qualified for
only one category: incident reports.
He could count three incidents on his
record: the larceny report at ITI, the
rape case, and the heart attack rescue
attempt.
We left Lamplighter and pulled
into the station at 11:06.
Putting away his briefcase in the
locker room, Waites concluded that
the day was pretty average.
He said the job can be exciting
but the stress involved is extreme.
Two young officers died from heart
attacks in the last year. Sergeant
Gary Geer, 46, died earlier this
month while jogging.
Waites blames the stress on in-
creasing crime and insufficient num-
bers of officers to keep up with the
workload. "One minute you're sit-
ting eating your lunch and the next
minute someone is threatening your
life. Then they expect you to go
from high tension to low level and
give someone directions.
"I wouldn't want my pulse to go
up every day, but a little excitement
makes me feel like I'm alive,"
Waites said.
Another officer agreed, "You
don't want to end up like Fish on
Barney Miller."
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