I am the law?

On friday I got to go on a ride along with one of my cop buddies, what an evening, I definitely learned a lot of what to and what not to do, in just that evening.
I started of at the precint at 9 pm, met up with my buddy, signed all the nessacary paperwork, and got ready to roll. I am practically pissing myyself I am so excited.
First stop the gas station to pick up snacks and what forth for the night. Me being the smart ass that I am, I could not resist the temptation to buy a donut, I mean i'm gonna be sitting in a cop car, my ride would not be complete without a donut. I go to the counter to pay for the donut, and the clerk must have assumed i was an undercover cop, because he gave me the donut for free! I think I am going to like this cop thing, now if only I could get the nice people at best buy and circuit city to give me my purchases for free.
Next stop, we get a noise complaint for a fraternity house, we arrive at the house, and there is another officer banging on the door trying to get the occupants attention. Those wily college kids decide to ignore, the first officer, we shall call him officer k, starts to get very frustrated, he walks around to the side of the house and shines his flashlight into the basement window to try and get peoples attention, again they ignore him. He is now getting very irate, now this the lesson i learned on what not to do. i have been known to have somewhat of a temper, but I normally refrain from losing it over such trivial things such as a bunch of scared underage college afraid to open door in case they get in trouble. Officer K shoots a little bit of mace into the fan which then disperses the mace over the basement, this causes a mass exodus from the house. Now I do not condone what he did, I do think there are other ways of getting the party to shut down, and I will cover that later on in this post. My buddy, officer C, both agreed that he went to far, but I will admit it was funny to see everybody scampering out of the house, trying not to get arrested. Funny thing is we were not there to arrest anybody, just to shut the party down. On the way back to the car I spot a guy sitting in the front seat. Officer C had accidently left his door open, and some dumbass wanted to get his picture taken whilst sitting in the cop car. What a fucking idiot, who gets in a cop car for fun? I call for C and I got to chase the guy and detain him until C catches up with me, keep in mind C is a 6'5 260 pound black guy. C is furious that this guy was in his car, and quite rightly to,now C is not one to abuse his authority, but he is livid, I think because he made a mistake and allowed somebody access to his car, and the fact that some idiot had the audacity to sit in his car. When C arrived he asked the guy are you a fucking idiot? C then threatened to whoop the guys ass. I knew he wouldn't do it, but he wanted to put the frighteners on dumbass.
Second call we goto another noise complaint, and shut down that party
Third call another noise complaint! This time I went around the back whilst the cops knocked on the door, what I saw cracked me up, the back door flys open, and all these college kids are running for dear life down the ally, I couldnt resist and had to say a smartass remark as these guys take off.
Fourth call another noise complaint, is there a trend here on a Friday night? This time it is just me and C going to this party, C handled it real cool, he spoke to one of the guests who was hanging outside, and asked him to talk to the owners of the party to shut it down, so that he wouldnt have to go and make scene. To me this was a cool way to shut down a party, everybody left on their own accord, there was no mass exodus of people afraid of getting arrestred, there was no mace being sprayed.
Fifth incident we get a code 3, this is the code for an emergency, it wasnt a big emergency, just a car crash, but we dont know the whole details until we get there. Now the fun begins, I get to turn on the lights and we start to fly through the traffic, man what a rush. I have done 80 on city streets before, but it is a different feeling when everybody pulls over to the curb as you speed by. Once we arrive at the car crash, I get to wave people around the car crash, not a terribly important job, and not one which I should be doing at all seeing as I am an observer, but C has worked with me on various security gigs, so he trusts me to help him out. Turns out some girl wrapped her car around a telephone pole, whilst answering her cell phone, luckily she was ok, but does anybody see the irony of hitting a telephone pole, because you tried to answer your phone? We wait around forever for the tow truck to arrive, then we go on a break.
Sixth and final call we goto take a report of a girl who was mugged. One thing I learned is that a lot of cops are lazy. Nobody was taking this assignment because they did not want to have to do the report. I hope I never get that jaded, I plan on being the best officer possible, and i will only harrass yuppies(joke). It was so funny after C took the call to do the robbery, all of a sudden all the other cops were free to pick up other assignments. I thought that was some major bullshit, this poor girl had been waiting around forever for someone to take her statement.
All in all i had a pretty fun night/early morning, but on the flip side, I was assigned in a pretty safe area, but all through out the night i heard reports of shots fired, domestic abuse situations, attempted murder. And I do realise that even though I had a fun time there are a lot of horrible individuals out there, and the world is not a nice place at timesl. But that just pushes me more to become a cop, so that I can do my little bit to make the world just a little bit better.