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Once I hit the streets a lifetime ago, I quickly realized my strengths and weaknesses. One thing I could do consistently was spot in progress crime. Whether that means a car out of place, a guy changing how he walks when he sees me or an open window in January, I noticed change. This allowed me to regularly stop the "right" people - those doing crime - and put them in jail.
I was called almost daily by our city narcotics unit to stop cars, and when an opening came available, they asked me to put in.
My Sergeant at the time laughed at me when I told him I'd put in, telling me it was too soon in my career and I wouldn't get an interview. A month later, I was growing my beard and driving a rickety shitbox in plain clothes.
This episode will provide patrol with the method that worked for me to get off patrol and into what I enjoyed. Towards the end of my time on patrol, I was unhappy going to work. Narcotics was fun most days.
It will also provide an outline of narcotics investigative techniques that worked for me. With proactive investigations your imagination (and law and policy) are the limit, but there are some normal methods that are tried and true.
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