The view from my office yesterday:

We had 10 police cars and one police motorcycle in our parking lot.  Evidently, a transient was on drugs and resisted arrest.  It made for an interesting morning.  Here is a link to the story from Record Searchlight - the part where it says "Police say transient resisted violently":

http://www.redding.com/news/2011/jul/26/no-headline---north_state_in_brief/

"Redding police Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old area transient who violently resisted officers who were attempting to detain him, officers said.  At about 11:46 a.m., officers went to the 2000 block of Hawthorne Avenue on a call that a man had entered a garage in the neighborhood.  Officers found a man, later identified as Derek Totaro, a Redding-area transient, and noticed he showed signs of being under the influence of drugs, Redding police Sgt. Mike Wood said.  Police attempted to detain Totaro, who began violently resisting, Wood said. Officers used control holds, hit him with batons, pepper spray and a stun gun, he said.  Totaro broke loose and ran into the parking lot of the Redding Bank of Commerce on Churn Creek Road, police said.  Totaro resisted for about five minutes before police were able to subdue him, Wood said.  Officers took him to a hospital for a medical clearance and then arrested him on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and felony resisting.  The officers involved in the scuffle weren't injured, Wood said."

One of the ladies in my department had just gotten into her car with her husband to go to lunch, when they were surrounded by police cars.  She has several dents in her car from the batons and the guy kicking it, and spent a few very uncomfortable minutes with a front line view of "Cops".  (Her car is the silver-ish car next to the white van)  They subdued the transient just in front of her car.