Posted on 11/27/2012 1:15:05 AM PST by SMGFan
A retired Hoboken police officer who lives in Bayonne was charged with aggravated assault and weapons offenses after allegedly waving a gun at a man building a fence at the rear of his property, officials said.
Bail was set at $50,000 cash or bond when Patrick J. Iapicca Jr., 48, of East 22nd Street, made his first court appearance on the charges today via video link from Hudson County jail in Kearny.
At 10:15 a.m. on Friday, the retired officer allegedly approached the man installing the fence while waving a 9mm Smith and Wesson semiautomatic handgun, the police report says.
When the worker asked Iapicca if he was threatening him, the former officer tucked the gun into his waistband and walked back to his home, the report says. Iapicca later told police he was trying to tell the worker, and three Bayonne residents, to stay off his property, the report says.
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It must be nice. I guess they were making so much noise he couldn’t hear what was happening on Maury.
What are we doing with men who are ‘retired’ at age 46?
“What are we doing with men who are ‘retired’ at age 46?”
I know a cop in my town who did just that; we are going to pay them most of their salary, and provide health benefits to their families, for decades. In my area they would normally work part-time gigs (some of the youngest retirees were in before any college degree requirements, so they’d do a variety of things), but now that there is no work you’re just as likely to see them at the bar at noon.
I think all these hyper-cushy, municipal-level, union contracts could be what does us in before even the federal debt—it’s just insane.
Rank and file police officer, like enlisted military, is a physically demanding position that normally cannot be done by older men.
Therefore, after 20, 25, or 30 years you can retire.
Are you going to bitch about all of our brave military who enlisted at 18, served our country for 30 years, and retire at 48?
I can see going on to less demanding jobs, in another field if necessary, but for taxpayers to pay full pensions and health benefits for up to 50 years for men who worked only 20+ years is insane and unsustainable. They should be partial pensions that kick in at social security age, not before.
Medical retirement?
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt until I hear more.
There are many physically demanding jobs that can’t be done so easily once you get older. Why do you think they are entitled to salaries for life? If they can’t do the job they signed on for then they need to find another one and stop expecting the taxpayers to fund their cushy lifestyles. That includes cops, military and everyone else.
Delivering mail is more physically demanding than an armed government hireling robbing highway travelers for a living, and mailmen don't get to shoot the dogs.
I don’t actually blame him if he’s qualified for and taken retirement, since that’s probably what the system allows and he wants to do.
But it’s a lousy, unsustainable system that we have in municipalities across the country, because it has been easier for pols to buy off unions than to be fiscally responsible. I think local governments are going to have to find ways to go through some sort of bankruptcy and discharge the exorbitant retirement promises that they have made to these unions.
Once a thug always a thug.
Good points..also try climbing utility poles all day for 30 years while looking down at so AH directing traffic(thats demanding) while making time and a half on an off day.
Also in some states those OT dollars go towards an income base that gauges the retirement payment.now thats BS
Watch the news these days..many cops are fat slobs and some of the women hired aren’t capable of dragging around the dog their partner shot.
The police report says Iapicca was unable to locate his firearm identification card while officers were at his home.
Retired LEOs are allowed to obtain permits to carry in New Jersey -- but there IS that silly filling-out-the-paperwork-thing.
I'll agree -- it looks like he's had a hard 48 years! Would be interesting to know why he "retired". (And why he had no FID card.)
(And why he had no FID card.)
You can’t keep a gun in the house unless you have a FID card?
Us southerners don’t have to have “papers” to keep any gun in our homes. At least we have some type of freedom granted by the Constitution left down here.
Down here you have the freedom to walk around your property waving a gun in your hand as much as you want and not break any laws. However, if you POINT the gun at someone and threaten them while standing in your own yard, depending on the situation, you may break a law. The act of simply letting them know you are armed does not break any law.
Remember, that’s in the South...especially here in Texas.
Just the fact that a NJ citizen has to have a piece of paper to legally have a gun in his home decries a direct attack upon the Second Amendment.
Waving one’s firearm is a sign of male respect and acknowledgement - pointing it is a sign of a threat. Or sumpin like dat.
New Jersey is persnickety about issuing FID cards and pistol purchase permits to individuals with mental health histories. I'm guessing that they are even more reluctant to issue carry permits to individuals with mental health problems. Unlike the hoi polloi, a retired LEO would ordinarily have no problem acquiring a carry permit in New Jersey. The question as to why this might be a problem arises. The possible answers are only conjecture, of course.
Rank and file police officer, like enlisted military, is a physically demanding position that normally cannot be done by older men.
What's worse is the fact that for non-connected law abiding citizens to get that piece of paper is darned near impossible.
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