In my city, we have our own transit police. They (should) handle all the police related activities that occur on their property at the subway stations and on their buses. They usually don't or they try to pawn their crimes off on us to make the crime stats look great to ride the subway and bus transit.
Thursday, a member of my squad was sitting in his patrol car in a parking lot when a bus stopped right in front of him and people started screaming and running off the bus. This NEVER looks good as a cop. The people started yelling to him that someone had a gun on the bus. Immediately this turned into a help call and I rushed lights and sirens to back him up.
Myself and other units arrived just as the officer had a male detained. The guy was highly intoxicated and started yelling to people at the back of the bus that he had a gun and was going to pull it out. The bus driver stated the guy rode the bus all the way to the end of the line (which he found suspicious) but figured he just had fallen asleep, so he didn't bother him. We frisked him and checked the back of the bus where he was sitting, just in case he might have ditched the weapon. We didn't find anything but proceeded to wait around almost 20 minutes for the transit police to arrive. When it was all said and done, the man was charged for drunk in public by the transit officer-no joke.
Well you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, and you sure as hell can't say you're going to pull out a gun on a crowded bus either!
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