University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, Aug, 19, 1987
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Nightshift
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that now was pulling slowly out toward 23rd Street. Johnson called on the radio for a license-tag check. The return call from the dispatcher was negative. Truck and tag belonged to each other.
Heading south on Iowa Street, the patrol car approached three men standing next to a vintage 1968 Ford with the trunk open. As the police car neared, one of the men reached up and slammed the lid shut. He jumped into the air and landed sitting on top of the trunk. All three assumed nonchalant poses as Johnson drove by.
"I guess they had something they didn't want me to see," Johnson said. "No law against that."
Johnson swung the car into the shadow of a building where he could park and still see the road. He turned on the overhead light and rested the clipboard across the steering wheel. More log sheets to fill out.
"123...check in front of 1034 Iowa and investigate a female subject sitting on the curb screaming," a dispatcher said calmly on the radio.
Johnson smiled and remarked that after midnight the calls got strange. The call was for another patrol district. Later the patrol called in to report that it couldn't find any woman. The moon was full.
almost over. The same parking lots, stores and neighborhoods had been traveled and checked again and again during the shift.
Cruising along 24th Street, behind Gammons, Johnson spotted a man and a woman putting a jack into the back of a station wagon. The front right tire has been replaced with a small emergency tire. Johnson pulled over and rolled down the window.
"Someone slashed my tire," the woman said. "I parked the car earlier this evening and came out and
At nearly 2 a.m., the shift was
"Why do you say that?" Johnson asked.
found it slashed. I think my ex-husband did it."
"He's done it before. I've had to buy eight tires in the past few months," she replied.
Johnson scratched his chin and shook his head.
report. Johnson's shift was into overtime.
The woman went on to describe the vehicle and license number of her ex-husband's truck. The description she gave matched the two-tone truck that Johnson had run a tag check on two hours earlier. The man lived
outside the city limits. Any follow up had to be coordinated with the sheriff's department.
"I knew he was up to no good," Johnson said quietly.
It was about 3 a.m. when the patrolman returned to the Law Enforcement Center and parked in the rear of a long row of police cars. He looked at the trip meter on the
dashboard. Almost 112 miles were covered this shift. Johnson gathered up his gear bag and the clipboard full of papers. Taking one final look inside the car, he turned and walked slowly to the building. Inside were a few more reports to be filled out.
He picked up the clipboard, pulled out a new form and began to take the
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