Law Enforcement

We all know the idea of enforcing the law has been around for a long time. We know that when the brutal murders happened to the Olson family in 1914, Sheriff LaBree was called in because the murderer was just inside the Pennington County line. If you wish to read about the episode, refer to June 14 of Old Trunks & Worn Shoes.

We know that in 1925, the Bloom family took someone in that had robbed stores. "Rosewood News The arrest of Carl A Sather, a familiar character at Rosewood since the beginning of December, at Thief River Falls last Saturday caused quite a stir in local circles. Sather arrived here about December first, from North Dakota claiming an earlier intimate acquaintance with Newell Anderson from Fordville where both have been employed this summer and proceeded to make his home at the home of Newell’s step father, Mr. Carl Bloom and stayed there intermittent until taken by the sheriff. Sather left about December 10 for Minneapolis and returned about the 18th, driving a Dodge automobile and an unusually large supply of wearing apparel, fur coats, merchandise and rings and jewelry. This was after his operations at Gonvick. This large and varied collection appeared somewhat mysterious to some and some of the neighbors at the time cautioned the Blooms of foul play. Sather showed a very generous and help some disposition and was engaged as a church assistant for the Christmas program held at the Swedish Mission church on the evening of December 30th at which time he played a very prominent public part here. Sather made a good many friends with the local business men and evidently secured a thorough inside knowledge of the many places now strongly suspicion as forethought should be later plan a roundup of this place. There is no suspicion of any thefts here, as this was his hibernation for the time and he could find no better place of seclusion that the Bloom farm which is located at a considerable distance away from the highway and if he had kept shy of the highways and towns he would evidently have eluded suspicion even after his Alvarado burglary. Considerable of the stolen loot was confiscated at the Bloom farm on January 12. When Hans Hanson, Marshall County Sheriff, personally raided the place, locating articles both in and the home and hidden in out buildings. At a hearing before Judge Andrew Grindeland Friday, Sather pleaded guilty to a series of thefts and was sentenced to serve an indeterminate sentence of from one to ten years in Stillwater."

Those of us who lived in Thief River Falls always read the police news in the local paper. There may have been a lot of robberies and people picked up for drinking and driving, however, I only remember one shooting. Bud Meyers was on duty the night he and his partner pursued a teenager beyond the outer limits of town. Bud was shot on that cold winter night. It was a terrible loss for his family, friends, and people of the city of Thief River Falls.

It makes you wonder how many law enforcement people a city has. Is it based on population? How many calls do they make in a 24 hour period? What kind of calls do they make? Does your paper have a daily crime watch section in the paper?

Our city has a crime watch bulletin board. In the last 24 hours there have been about 250 calls investigated. There are loud parties, cats and dogs being picked up, accidents, medical assistance calls, domestic disturbances, and a garden variety of other law enforcement calls.

Do you know the codes? If you had a police scanner could you identify what was happening if they said:


AC
Action Complete

HE
Alarm - Human Error

NR
No Report

ME
Alarm - Mech. Error

WR
Warned and Released

CAN
Dispatch Cancelled

DTX
Detox

GOA
Gone on Arrival

ICR
Complaint Report

NAT
Alarm - Weather Related

NKH
Alarm - No Keyholder

UNF
Unfounded Complaint




AC
Accident

AL
Alarms

AR
Animal Run

AT
ATL/Welfare Check

AV
Abandoned Vehicle

BC
Bar Check

BI
Bicycle Recovered/Stolen

BM
Bomb Threat

BU
Burglary

CC
Criminal Complaints

DD
DUI (Drunken Driver)

DI
Disturbance

DK
Drunks - Intoxicated

DO
Domestic

ES
Escort

FP
Found Property

FW
Fireworks

HC
House/Building Check

IM
Impounds

JC
Juvenile Complaint

LN
Loud Parties/Noises

ME
Mental Dist./Suicidal

MP
Missing Persons/Run

NC
Narcotics

RO
Robbery

RR
Returned/Recovered Vehicle

SH
Shoplifter

SU
Suspicious Act/Person

SV
Stolen Vehicle

TC
Traffic Complaint

TH
Theft

AAF
Airport (Emergency)

ATL
Attempt to Locate

AWF
Arcing Wires

BMF
Bomb Threat

BTF
Boat (Drowning)

CMF
Commercial Fire

FLF
Fuel Leak (Vehicle)

GFF
Grass Fire

GLF
Gas Leak (Natural Gas)

HMF
Hazardous Materials

HNG
911 Hang-Up/Open Line

HPF
Hospital/Nursing Home

MAF
Mutual Aid

MDF
Medical Assist

MIF
Miscellaneous

RCF
Rescue

RRF
Railroad

RDF
Residential Fire

RTK
Report Taken at Station



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