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Officer Dave Schueller is having both a good and bad week. He was awarded a commendation by the district attorneys office for multiple record setting drug interdiction arrests. But he is also facing days off due to not making enough traffic stops.
Drug interdiction
Officer Schueller told us this. “Six months back I was sent to this interdiction training. When I got talking to the instructor he was telling me our city should be getting all kinds of busts but no one works interdiction. The interstate is on the edge of town outside the city limits so we can’t go up there. But we have a ton of gas stations and fast food joints at the two exit ramps that dump people into our jurisdiction. The instructor gave me all kinds of tips for working drug interdiction around the gas and food locations out by the interstate.”
For the last three months officer Schueller has been averaging about 70 traffic stops per month. In the last three months Officer Schueller also has made ten major felony interdiction stops, finding between 100lbs and 300lbs of drugs per arrest. He has also made many more minor interdictions. But Schueller is most proud of the fact that on one of his stops the passenger in the car was a wanted fugitive, a cop killer no less.
“Getting that guy off the street is worth way more to me than anything else. Preventing almost a ton of drugs from hitting the streets feels good, but making a cop killer face justice that is a once in a career kind of arrest.”
Chief Malaka does not see value in all these big busts. “All these drug dealers he is busting are not a problem for my city. They get off the interstate, gas up, eat and then get back on the road. They provide revenue to our local businesses and then move on to be a problem for the big cities where drugs are sold. Schueller is wasting time, it takes hours to do all the evidence collection and paperwork on those big felonies. We don’t have problems out by the interstate, we have issues in our residential neighborhoods and school zones. He should be working in the heart of the city, not off on the edge.”
During our conversation with Chief Malaka he multiple times had to mention Officer Ben Graystock who has made over 300 traffic stops each of the last three month. We asked Schueller his thoughts on Officer Graystock making 300 traffic stops per month.
“That asshat is the Chief’s son-in-law. He just sits all day by the schools and by the shopping center pulling over the MILF soccer moms in their mini-vans for ridiculously low speeds. Like 5MPH over the limit and he pulls them over, gives them a verbal warning. Chief Malaka only cares about quantity not quality. I think taking hundreds of pounds of drugs off the street is much better than telling the same drivers to please slow down.”
