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The ride-along: joining spd for Calf fry patrol with SPD for 17 years after spending his first year on the force in Liberal, Kansas. He’s from Weatherford originally and came to Oklahoma State University for a year of college before transferring to Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Wilson said he didn’t “love it” when he attended OSU but liked Stillwater. He came back years later, knowing it would be a good place to work.

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Every eye from The Strip’s crowded sidewalks was on me as I stared out from the inside of a police car.

Luckily, I was sitting up front holding a notepad and camera instead of in the back in handcuffs.

It was the Saturday night of Calf Fry, and Washington Street was a circus. I observed the drunken spectacle from a cruising black Chevy Tahoe as the country-clad pedestrians all looked back at me curiously, trying to figure out why I was riding shotgun in a cop car.

Was she arrested? Shouldn’t she be in the back? Is the cop her DD? Can a cop be my DD? I was on assignment for the O’Colly, experiencing a ridealong with the Stillwater Police Department. I heard throughout my college career of the intense police activity during Calf Fry, and I was determined to experience it for myself.

7:55 p.m.

I arrive at the Stillwater police station and take a seat in an empty lobby. Everything is silent as I wait to start my ride-along.

I’ll be on patrol tonight with

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Sgt. Andrew Wilson has been an officer at the Stillwater Police Department for 17 years. He works on the evening shift.

Sgt. Andrew Wilson. I’ve never been in a police car before – or even a police station – but despite my lacking experience, I’m ready to see some real police work go down.

I don’t know if I expect a ride-along to be too dangerous in Stillwater. It’s Calf Fry weekend, though, so who knows what could happen?

A friend told me to wear comfortable shoes on the off chance I have to run from flying bullets.

About 15 minutes later, Wilson greets me in the lobby and guides me back to a desk where I fill out a waiver form.

As I sign away injury liability from the City, Wilson advises

me the ride-along won’t be scary.

So much for a dramatic shootout.

8:20 p.m.

Wilson and I go to a hit-andrun car accident scene before leaving for another call to a possible case of vandalism.

Wilson explains to me he’s the shift manager today. Every Saturday, he decides which evening shift officers patrol certain areas in the city. Those officers respond first to calls, and Wilson comes in relief to provide assistance or answer questions.

He also tells me a bit about his background. He’s been

We arrive at a neighborhood on the east side of town where two neighbors reportedly got in a dispute. One neighbor, Michael, reportedly hit and kicked his neighbor’s truck, and the young woman planned on pressing charges for the minor damage to her vehicle.

Officer Chris Howell is already responding to the call, and Wilson comes to assist.

We find the incident left only a small mark on the truck, hardly the damage I was expecting. Wilson, though, said the crime is in the intent and action of inflicting the damage, not in its monetary cost.

Wilson and Howell collect written statements, information from witnesses and a witness and took photos for evidence.

Michael is placed under citizen’s arrest, meaning he’s about to get a citation and a

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court date for vandalism.

The two officers went over to the man’s house to speak with him again, but I hung back by the patrol car. Howell already had one conversation with Michael, which he said had “deteriorated quickly.”

This might not be the best time to show up at his door with a camera.

Wilson later described the conversation he and Howell had with the man.

“Are you Michael?” they asked.

“No,” he said.

“Do you have any identification?”

“No.” “Is there anyone else here in the house?”

“Yeah, Michael,” the man said. “He’s in the shower.”

“Can you go get Michael?”

“Sure.”

The man walked away from the door and returned alone, looking exactly the same.

“Are you Michael?”

“Yeah.”

Michael got a ticket and is due in court later this month.

9:42 p.m.

Wilson and I head back to the police station where he gives me a tour of the building.

He shows me the city jail on the first floor, the training room and detectives’ offices on the second floor, the open area

on the third floor for K-9 and physical training, and the dispatch office in the basement.

He talks about his job compared to other kinds of law enforcement. He describes himself as a “clean your desk off” kind of person, someone who prefers to wrap up all his work in one shift and come to the station the next day with a clean slate.

“It’s a good job for someone who likes to do something different every day,” he said.

Wilson said he prefers this kind of police work over long-term detective investigations, though his regular 4:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. shift keeps him away from his family every Wednesday-Saturday evening.

Wilson tells me as we leave the station to look at the DUI checkpoint at Lakeview and Western Road that he has time to pick up his two kids from elementary school and take them home before leaving for work.

His wife takes it from there for the rest of the evening.

After working the day shift for the past five years, Wilson has been on evenings since January. He often finds himself cruising through the streets of Stillwater late at night like we are now.

11 p.m.

The DUI checkpoint is

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It was a frustrating day at the ballpark for the Cowboys.

The benches began to clear in the ninth inning of Oklahoma State’s 6-2 loss to Lamar on Sunday in Allie P. Reynolds Stadium after Lamar’s Robin Adames made contact with OSU second baseman Andrew Rosa as Rosa turned a double play.

After Adames got up, Rosa pushed him. Adames shoved back, and players in each dugout filed onto the field.

“That’s what happens when kids are competing and physicality enters the picture,” OSU coach Josh

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Umpires and coaches direct players back to their dugouts.

Holliday said. “When you run into one another, you collide or whatever the case may be, sometimes it elicits responses out of competitive athletes.”

The emotions stemmed from another rough slide in

the eighth inning after Vincent Dellocono bounced a ball up the middle. Rosa collected the ball and stepped on his bag to force out Chaneng Varela, who slid into second and made contact with Rosa.

Rosa’s throw to first was

errant, and Dellocono took off for second but got caught in a rundown. The Cowboys’ focus went from Dellocono to Chad Fleischman, who was headed to home plate.

Fleischman scored, and Dellocono ended up on first.

Holliday came out to argue the first rough slide, and after a few minutes of back-atforth with different umpires, Holliday was ejected.

That wasn’t Holliday’s first disagreement with the umpires. In the sixth, Grant DeVore chopped a ball down the right-field line.

As it fell, right fielder Jon Littell stretched out his glove and began to slide. Littell missed the ball, but it appeared to land on the dirt in

foul territory. The first base umpire, though, called it fair.

Fleischman and Bryndan Arredondo scored, extending the Cardinals’ (28-21) lead to 4-1. Holliday ran all the way out to right field arguing the call. He argued with the umpires for about five minutes while OSU changed pitchers.

“I was running full speed, but I thought the ball was foul,” Littell said. “... Just a weird deal, a weird play that doesn’t show up very often.

Unfortunately, we were on the wrong end of it.”

In the bottom half of the inning, Littell was the first batter up. He hit the first pitch he saw over the netting in left field and into the softball stadium.

The Cowboys (24-21) started with the lead, as they did in the first two games of the series, when Garrett McCain hit a triple to right-center in the first before Littell brought him in with a double. Lamar took the lead in the third when an Adames single scored two, and OSU didn’t lead again.

“It’s tough, but we gotta get back to work, and that’s exactly what we’re gonna do,” Littell said.

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shutting down. We’ve been sitting nearby for a while as I take notes and Wilson writes a report for the report for the vandalism citation. We chat about different things, such as his beginnings in law enforcement, a trip he took with his wife to New York City and the AR15 semi-automatic rifle I realized was sitting to my left.

He answers every question thoughtfully and openly, taking the time to fully explain different topics. By this time, there hasn’t been much Calf Fry craziness like I thought there would be – the Payne County Sheriff’s Office has taken the brunt of that – but I’ve still learned a lot from Wilson

about his job and life.

1 a.m.

Wilson instructed every officer from the evening shift to come to The Strip at 1 a.m. while the night shift takes over roving patrol. We park by J.R. Murphy’s and stand with Howell and two other officers for the next hour.

Wilson has been insistent all night that police officers aren’t the bad guys out to make mass arrests on Calf Fry weekend.

“We can’t arrest everybody; we don’t have enough people for that,” he said. “We’re here to keep the peace.”

The bars and sidewalks are packed. The officers keep a watchful eye for any situations that could

go too far, such as a scuffle they broke up quickly at the Murphy’s exit before sending the two men on their way.

The Strip was relatively peaceful as far as breaking the law was concerned, and students streamed away after the bars closed.

“Do you think this situation is handled?” Wilson asked another officer.

“Oh yeah,” he said.

We all got back in the patrol cars and drove away at 2:12 a.m. It’s time for Wilson to stop by the station and head home. He’s got church in the morning.

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