Posted on 01/27/2013 7:05:34 AM PST by Altariel
Two very different police recruitment videos:
Decatur, Georgia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIgt8pmh7CU
Newport Beach, California: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rKA6ROAVk
Where would you rather live: in a place which polices like Decatur, or a place which polices like Newport Beach?
Frankly, Newport Beach, the video designed for men, Decatur, for women and metrosexuals. That’s how I see it. Back to the man cave.......
I’d think I’d rather live where the police see themselves as servants and guardians of the people, rather than hobnail booted aggressors. My cousin retired as Lieutenant Detective from the NYPD, where he ended his career serving on the Manhattan DA’s homicide squad. He claims he never drew his weapon once, in his entire career.
I don't buy this assertion for one single second. For one reason or another (I don't know the specific reason), this is BS.
One of them looks like an Armed Forces recruiting video.
You don’t know my cousin. He said that the nearest he ever came to drawing his weapon was when he was a patrolman in Harlem, and driving home late one night, he had a flat on 125th Street. When we was changing the flat in his civilian cloths, some “yutes” started to harass him. He kept his cool and after he finished changing the tire, he got the hell out of there. He also brought his weapon in a shoulder holster to my father’s funereal in Jamaica, Queens (not far from where my cousin grew up) saying he always he always carried his gun in Jamaica (good idea).
Once, as a patrolman, he calmly talked a Puerto Rican man who distraught about a matrimonial matter, and brandishing a gun in an intersection in Brooklyn to put away the gun and surrender peaceably. The Newport, CA police probably could have used an incident like that to make the nightly news.
My cousin, btw, is only about 5’ 9”, and slightly built. He served four years in the AF as an AP, and probably learned that the commander didn’t want his airmen in the hospital for three months because they got a little drunk and loud.
You don’t know my cousin. He said that the nearest he ever came to drawing his weapon was when he was a patrolman in Harlem, and driving home late one night, he had a flat on 125th Street. When we was changing the flat in his civilian cloths, some “yutes” started to harass him. He kept his cool and after he finished changing the tire, he got the hell out of there. He also brought his weapon in a shoulder holster to my father’s funereal in Jamaica, Queens (not far from where my cousin grew up) saying he always he always carried his gun in Jamaica (good idea).
Once, as a patrolman, he calmly talked a Puerto Rican man who distraught about a matrimonial matter, and brandishing a gun in an intersection in Brooklyn to put away the gun and surrender peaceably. The Newport, CA police probably could have used an incident like that to make the nightly news.
My cousin, btw, is only about 5’ 9”, and slightly built. He served four years in the AF as an AP, and probably learned that the commander didn’t want his airmen in the hospital for three months because they got a little drunk and loud.
You don’t know my cousin. He said that the nearest he ever came to drawing his weapon was when he was a patrolman in Harlem, and driving home late one night, he had a flat on 125th Street. When we was changing the flat in his civilian cloths, some “yutes” started to harass him. He kept his cool and after he finished changing the tire, he got the hell out of there. He also brought his weapon in a shoulder holster to my father’s funereal in Jamaica, Queens (not far from where my cousin grew up) saying he always he always carried his gun in Jamaica (good idea).
Once, as a patrolman, he calmly talked a Puerto Rican man who distraught about a matrimonial matter, and brandishing a gun in an intersection in Brooklyn to put away the gun and surrender peaceably. The Newport, CA police probably could have used an incident like that to make the nightly news.
My cousin, btw, is only about 5’ 9”, and slightly built. He served four years in the AF as an AP, and probably learned that the commander didn’t want his airmen in the hospital for three months because they got a little drunk and loud.
Ahh, so referring to the public as “citizens” is appropriate for women and metrosexuals?
Well, you two can keep your little BS session going for the rest of your lives if you want, but you posted it and I ain’t buying what your cousin says. Something stinks.
Indeed; government employees ought view themselves as working for the people, not enforcers of the people.
One of the regrettable consequences of the war on drugs (like prohibition) is the militarization of the police.
One of the regrettable consequences of the war on drugs (like prohibition) is the militarization of the police.
Yes, drug bust training and activity began the police state abuse and the domestic war on terror over funded it, jacked it up and sent it to the moon.
Whereas drug users and dealers (gangs) were targeted by the militarized drug police units, with the expansion of the WOT, everyone gets to be treated like a potential terrorist interacting with a anti-constitution occupying military force.
The Federal government has proven that it is not worthy of the power given to it in the name of stoping Islamic terror within the country. They politicalized their war against their thought enemies and those enemies just happen to be the citizens who demand they respect the constitution. The war on terror demands a federal, state and local structure of constitutional violation and citizen abuse.
P. J. O’Rouke said it best, “Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
Yikes, that Newport Beach video tells me that if I’m caught driving thru that town I’m gonna get pulled over and have the crap beat out of me..........
While the first video is what I prefer my police department to be, I understand that in some neighborhoods in large metropolitan areas, that might not work. However, the first line of the paragraph under the second video says all there is to say: “We are a highly progressive Police Department”. I get the feeling that it would be an attack first, ask questions later, type of organization. If you did not survive the attack, they could say ANYTHING about you and you’d have no way to defend yourself or your name.
Huh? Not sure where your question originated from or where it’s going, but I do know, living in one of the three largest cities in the U.S., especially one that is overrun with gangs controlling the distribution of drugs (estimated to cause 70% of all crime) and are busy killing each other and innocent bystanders, well, I’d rather have the police operate as a paramilitary at this point given they’re outmanned and outgunned by these punks. As for policemen/women acting as public service oriented (as was more the case in the Decatur video), sure, most cops deal with those issues more than violent crime on a daily basis, but don’t discount for a second the savage nature of gangs, if you don’t go after them with vigilance and toughness, they’ll control everything. As a matter of fact, this war has already been lost in most gang-controlled neighborhoods because the public officials and cops can’t contain them and protect the citizens who witness and are victims of the gang related crimes, so they don’t testify for fear of their own, and families, lives. I’d rather have cops ready to kick some serious a$$ at anytime as long as it correctly focused and aimed at the right, repeat, organized offenders. Hell ya.
Just d-mn!
Well. It isn’t called “Behind the Orange Curtain” for nothing.
Decauter seems like a nice place. The Mexican gangs haven’t gotten there apparently.
Yet.
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