October 28, 2009
Frank Shorn, the 38-year-old battering ram operator for the Richmond Police Department’s SWAT team, told reporters today that he longs to swing the battering ram into bad guys’ doors more often than his average once-per-month use of the tactical tool.
“When I signed up for this gig a few years back, I thought it would be like in the movies, you know, being all, ‘POLICE, OPEN UP!’ then knocking down doors of murderers and [drug] dealers all day,” said Shorn, sipping on a lukewarm coffee and watching another rerun of Hogan’s Heroes on the Fourth Precinct’s break room TV. “This is pretty much all I do though, just kind of sit around and wait for the door breach that will never happen.”
Adding to Shorn’s frustration is the fact that Richmond’s crime rate has dropped nearly 19 percent over last year, thus decreasing the need for door-breaking-downing. It’s news the battering-ram operator calls “good, but frustrating as hell for a guy like me.”
Shorn’s wife, Lisa, said she hopes her husband’s job picks up soon, as he has taken to entering his own home by breaking down the family’s front door.
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