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**Ill_Used_Heroine** · 12-31-2008, 07:15 PM

Wow ... you're so lucky to have real cops there all the time. We have to have the Branch Manager call them, and by the time they come, we're lucky if the troublemakers are still here!

**depechemodefan** · 12-31-2008, 07:31 PM

Believe me, even with cops in the building, if something happens on another floor, by the time the cop gets up there, the perps have run off.

You are in a fight and the cop shows up to break it up. Do you:
A) Break it up, though you know you are in trouble
B) Argue with the cop
C) try to hit the cop

If you answered C, then you are this CS.

There is a fight on the plaza outside. The guard tries to get the attention of the cop, and the cop (the one from the above story who arrested a guy on Thur) goes outside. Three guys are fighting, so the cop starts to tell them to break it up. The instigator is drunk, and decides to take a swing at the cop "like a girl" (says my coworker). The guy's face is already bloody from the fight. The cop has to tazer him. The guy is trying to kick the cop. The cop is surrounded by the homeless people who have to watch. So my coworker decides that she should call 911 for backup, because who knows if he has a friend or friends who want to mess up the cop. The line is busy! But 8 cop cars pull up (on the plaza, on the street, one blocking the exit of the garage) and the guy is on the ground, I'm not sure if all the cops took him down or what. This cop has to have latex gloves on. Finally the paramedics came. So this took 1 and 1/2 hour to resolve itself.

After the fight, I get on the elevator and there's this cute 8 year old boy on the elevator. He asks excitedly "Did you see the fight?" And he was giving me details. I get on the third floor and see all the homeless looking out the window at the scene.

**depechemodefan** · 01-07-2009, 07:23 PM

Same cop that had to break up a fight yesterday was here today. He said rhe guy from last week he had to arrest was first trying ot hit him, so the cop tried to taser the guy last week but his jacket got in the way so he had to punch him. The guy falls down but starts to kick him so he has to hit him again to knock him out. The librarians, who saw all these homeless people surrounding the cop called 911, thinking the homeless people were going to gang up on the cop but the cop told me today that he homeless people were trying to support him, since the guy was trying to start a fight with him.

So today, a fight breaks out in the library because some guy was touching some other's guy gf. I don't know if punches were traded but there was a lot of yelling. The toucher left but the other 2 people stayed behind and the cop got info. from them.

This cop asked for the name of the person in charge of this library and I gave him his name and number. The cop said we have to have zero tolerance for these people, because they scare away the good customers.

**Dasota** · 01-07-2009, 08:15 PM

What kind of Library do you work in that needs security and cops, and has this many issues with people? It boggles my mind that it could have instance after instance there.

**~~PepperElf~~** · 01-07-2009, 08:50 PM

sounds like a big city

cos i've never seen stuff like that at the library when growing up.. or even now, that i'm back in the same area!

**Dude** · 01-07-2009, 09:25 PM

Yeah most library people go to check out books. In down town city type places they are public toilets for bums, addicts and street kids. Most businesses can kick out customers that loiter. Public Libraries being Public brings all kind of people.

**depechemodefan** · 01-07-2009, 09:42 PM

What kind of Library do you work in that needs security and cops, and has this many issues with people? It boggles my mind that it could have instance after instance there.

The simple answer is that the management is pussy.

For ex., people would use the handicap terminal and either keep on logging on with multiple cards or somehow add time on the terminal because the saw how the librarians do it. I would tell the manager to tell people to get off the computer for other people to use it, and she made a big show of not wanting to do it.

We have people loitering outside and not one clears them off.

Oh, and in the first story, about the guy lipping off several cops? first time, he was using our courtacy (sp) phone and was cursing. The cop told him, "you have to stop cursing in public, or I have to give you a ticket." The guy said, "Give me a ticket then!" So she takes him outside and gave him a warning. So he lips out to other cops and the third one takes him to jail. This was first hand info. I got today.

Third floor is for research, but all the people up here use it to look at youtube and watch movies. Yes, that can be research but these guys look like they havn't walked in a school in 20 years, and some are in their 20's. And watching youtube from open to close 7 days a week, since we re-opened in June, doesn't leave much time for studying.

**Primer** · 01-11-2009, 09:39 PM

Quoth PepperElf View Post

sounds like a big city

Yes, depechemodefan works in a very big city. I've seen her mention it, but I'm not going to be the one to repeat it just in case she's changed her mind about people knowing where she is.

**MadMike** · 01-12-2009, 12:06 AM

Quoth Dasota View Post

What kind of Library do you work in that needs security and cops, and has this many issues with people? It boggles my mind that it could have instance after instance there.

You'd be surprised. There was a story in today's paper about them hiring security at Chuck E. Cheese, of all places. Apparently a lot of fights have been breaking out over there.

**depechemodefan** · 01-12-2009, 03:30 PM

Yeah, I work in a big city. I would say the name, except the PIO is always googling our library to find stories about the library. For ex., someone blogged " I really love the xxxx library..." Then the PIO can put on our blog "I found this blog entry about how much a customer loves our library!"

The big city I work in starts with an "h".

I gave the cop a Twilight bookmark, since he complained there were no bookmarks available. I had a lot of them to give him but when I was going to give them to him it was the day of the fight on the Plaza so he didn't have any free time to get them. I left them at the desk in a drawer but I guess some sticky-fingered person working at the desk took them. I only had one left to give him.

**depechemodefan** · 01-16-2009, 08:10 PM

I didn't see any of this today. All second hand
Today some guy was harrassing a woman. She complained to the cop and the cop told him to leave her alone. Guy goes to woman to harrass her again and the cop keeps. on. kicking. him. out. When the cop decides it's tiem to use the tazer, the guy runs. And the guy has some assult warrents pending. They aren't yet warrents, so she goes around harrassing people because he is a dick.
Though latter the cop had to put someone in handcuffs. I don't know who or what he/she did, but that is what a cw told me.

**~~PepperElf~~** · 01-17-2009, 02:43 AM

wow whatever happened to just going to the library to ...i dunno... borrow a book to read?

**depechemodefan** · 01-21-2009, 01:26 AM

This is second hand info.
Woman was hitting a guy in the computer pit, so cop has to handcuff her and she starts fighting back. He has to restrain her on the ground, then finally tries to take her out and she starts fighting back and he has to restrain her on the ground again.

This I seen myself. Man comes up to the cop and complains about some guys talking and he told the guy something and the guy told him "if you don't like it kick my ass!" So the cop asks, "what is the problem?" and the man repeats(though it was hard to understand him in the first place), that he was on the computer and there is one guy on his left, another on his right and they are talking over him. The man asked them to stop talking (or quiet down, I forgot what) and so one of the guys told him if he didn't like it to kick his ass.
So the cop gets up. I don't know what he told the other guys. Personally, I would have just moved if I didn't like that two people were talking to each other and I was in between.

**Mr. Security** · 01-24-2009, 01:40 AM

Quoth Dasota View Post

What kind of Library do you work in that needs security and cops, and has this many issues with people? It boggles my mind that it could have instance after instance there.

Trust me the large branch library's need them. I am a guard at the main branch located in the middle of downtown. Since it's winter we have homeless drunks who come in on a regular basis. These people are always drunk off of mouthwash, hair spray and what ever they can get there hands on. Unfortunately we don't have cops i our building it's just us. There are 4 of us but still it can get out of hand and the head of the library system who works out of the main branch is a huge pussy when it comes to barring them. I swear to god they have to kill someone to get barred and even when they do finally get barred they ignore it and trying to call the cops doesn't work because since picking up someone who's violating a barring notice is low priority it can be hours before they come and said person has usually left by the time they show up and we aren't allow to physically remove anybody unless they attack us or a staff member so it can be very frustrating dealing with them. I've worked there for 2 1/2 years and I'm seriously looking for another job because I swear i'm going to snap one of those a-holes necks soon

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