Posted on Friday, 30th May 2008 by Patrick Dorwin
When I read this story, I wondered how often we have heard Glenn tell us how important it is to focus on the small things. In this case, an officer stops to check a car with loud music playing right across the street from the 3rd District station. When he looked through the window, he saw a gun, and eventually made an arrest for the gun and drugs. Great police work!
Car’s loud music leads to arrest
Loud music coming from a car parked in a gas station led to a gun, drugs and an arrest in the 4900 block of W. Lisbon Ave., across the street from Milwaukee’s 3rd District police station.According to police, the unoccupied vehicle was in the parking lot of the station about 11 o’clock last night. When the two officers heard the music, one of them stopped to look into the car and saw a handgun sticking out from between the seats.
The officer entered the station and asked who the car belonged to.
A female customer who said it was hers was arrested, and the drugs were found during a search of the car, according to police.
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May 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
It’s like they say in Sheepshead: “Little ones bring out the big ones.”
May 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
I’m all for the recent crack-down on loud stereos but what really annoys me is that the “noise” ordinance has been limited with the specific purpose of excluding loud Harley-Davidson exhausts from enforcement. In my opinion the rude, egotistical, “look at me I’m cool” HD exhaust systems are a much bigger problem that loud stereos. I’ll give you that you’re probably not going to find guns and drugs on as many HDs as you’ll find inside the ghetto-mobiles with loud stereos, but my quality of life, and the quality of my sleep, is impacted much more by obnoxious Harley riders than it is by loud stereos.
Now, don’t be thinking that I’m anti-motorcycle or anti-customization. I have a bike and it has aftermarket exhaust on it. The big difference though is that my pipes have a MUFFLER on them and when I ride I ride with respect for the neighborhood that I am in.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Yes, it is great work, but it is work that EVERY police officer in the city should be doing on a daily basis!
May 30th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
So she left the stereo cranked (keys in?), the windows down, a gun in plain view and drugs in the car all while parked across from a police station. Assuming she’s not brain dead, her callousness is appalling.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:50 am
Andy I’m sure your experience as a lawman will confirm what I’m about to write here. In certain parts of the City even Stevie Wonder could make arrests. That should not in any way be construed by anyone to mean this was not a good arrest. Those of us who have been on the job have known guys who wouldn’t take the time to check out anything suspicious if they didn’t get dispatched to it – and then they’d take their sweet time responding. These cops could have ignored the loud music or simply told whoever owned the car to turn it down, but they made the effort to check things out. Fact of the matter is, as Patrick points out, this is really a good example of how minor things can lead to good arrests. And the recovery of this gun may very well have prevented a robbery, shooting or homicide later on, but there’s no way to figure crimes that were prevented into year-end statistics. I don’t know if this was on a newscast because I never watch the local actors, but this is a point that should always be emphasized by our police spokespeople when they talk about these routine stops resulting in gun seizures. Even arrests for minor violations like Loitering, Disorderly Conduct, or Public Drinking have an effect on the reduction of crime in certain parts of the City. The person arrested may have become a crime victim himself later on that evening or may have gone on to commit a crime.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:17 am
Glenn, I second that!
June 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
Glenn,
I think you may have me confused with another commenter. I have no law experience. But I agree it was good police work to investigate the loud car, and follow it up to resolution. I just wasn’t aware, perhaps due to my lack of experience as a lawman, of how bold some of the more nefarious members of our society have become.
Things like this, and the story of the mob that beat the guy that stopped after he accidentally hit the 3 year old that darted into the street, effectively keep me steering clear of certain parts of the city. I know there are lots of good folks there too, my grandparents grew up on 4th and Cherry, but the brazen nature of the thug and gang culture is a pretty big deterrent these days.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Shouldn’t complain cause I got a really nice clean cut hockey playing son who considers people who smoke or do drugs jerks because they screw with their performance especially if said jerk happens to be on his team. However the son plays his stereo woofers, bass in particular, loud enough to be heard in the next county. Since we the ‘rents have been maddeningly unable to curb this habit, which likely will lead to a probable loss of hearing in the not so distant future, perhaps a few “loud music stops” by the police will do the job. Hey I say they should even fine him for their trouble, for annoying innocent bystanders and because it will likely be the only thing that will get his attention that he needs to lower the volume of the “music”. Fill the city coffers and save the eardrums of the next generation all at the same time. Sounds like a win/win to me.