No sympathy

"You hear who got shot?"

Believe it or not, this isn't the first time a conversation started this way.

"Jimmy."

Jimmy is a pain in the ass absolute scumbag who my department is constantly arresting - larceny(shoplifting), breach of peace, disorderly conduct, threatening, public indecency(masturbating in public), risk of injury to a minor, simple assault, etc, etc, etc. In fact the last time I picked him up, he was crying that I wasn't processing him fast enough because he had to be at the courthouse in fifteen minutes from the last time we arrested him (FYI - He didn't make his court date. Oops!). We keep picking him up, and the court system keeps being lenient, slapping him on the wrist and letting him go.

Anyway, a "masked man" shot him in the leg yesterday in broad daylight a few towns over in a high drug trafficking area. It's a pity they didn't aim higher but this type of injury is usually indicative of owing someone something, like a drug dealer.

Alas, Jimmy is recovering in the hospital and, I can only assume will be back on our radar screens soon enough.