Posted on 12/21/2014 1:57:00 PM PST by conservative98
Edited on 12/21/2014 1:59:57 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The first assassination of an NYPD officer since the 1988 ambush of Edward Byrne has rattled the rank-and-file
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I was just suggesting a Bullet Proof “Patrol Car” with the quality of the A10 cockpit.
Excellent!
10-4
“From a police officer in Maryland:”
Do you have a cite/source for this? I’d like to alert someone to it, but he would need to know where it came from.
I received it via email. Sorry I can’t give you a source.
I wouldn’t hesitate in alerting them.
I’d say smaller towns will be okay but this could get bad in big cities and suburbs.
Great idea!
I should have been more specific: there was no source.
Best to you and whoever you want to alert.
LOLOL!!!
I say boycott the damn place until DiBlasio resigns.
Very enlightening.
Soon it will be every man for himself; every woman for herself.
I found a Bing cache of a website that had it. It does appear to be a chain email, but under the “fake but accurate” clause I’ve already sent to my friend.
Good, I’m glad you found it.
If your friend is in law enforcement, please let me know what he says/thinks. Thanks.
You’re right. The small towns should be safe but big cities and suburbs won’t be.
On Saturday, December 6, 2014
From a police officer in Maryland:
CDS enforcement by patrol is on life support as it is and total arrests have dropped by about 90% where I work. There were guys on my shift who used to go out and get 17 legitimate lock ups per shift, the majority of them felonies. Now, the department is lucky if the whole shift gets 17 lock ups for the month. The hand writing is on the wall: do nothing and save your job. Folks on the street are acting accordingly. I asked one guy I work with why he stopped making arrests. His answer “I can’t risk getting fired.” This is by no means a brutal or corrupt Officer. Very polite, very professional and at one time a very hard worker. Not anymore. The same goes for everyone to his left and right. They’ve all shut down. Police work is effectively over for them and that means that police services are effectively non-existent for the thousands of people who live and work where they patrol. Occasionally someone will ask me why we don’t Police the way we used to. I tell them why in explicit detail and suggest that they write their elected representatives.
A lot of guys refuse to run code anymore. They won’t activate their lights or siren for anything other than a call to Assist the Officer. Assault in progress? Drive the speed limit. A shooting or a cutting? Drive the speed limit and make sure to stop for at least three seconds at every traffic control device. Why? Because every accident where the Officer runs code is now the Officer’s fault regardless of the transportation articles. So be it. Patrol will adjust accordingly. EMS will not enter the scene where someone is injured as a result of armed criminal action if we are not present. The longer it takes for the Police to arrive the longer that victim bleeds. The problem is that you can’t be fired for getting there a minute late even if the victim dies but you can and will be fired if you crash trying to get there in time, even if you didn’t violate the law or department policy.
Cameras will only make the situation worse. We have already been told that if we get cameras they will have to be turned off when we enter private property to avoid running afoul of the current wiretapping statute. That right there knocks their effectiveness down by about fifty percent. Domestics, EPs/mental cases and investigate the trouble calls account for a good many uses of force. You can ignore a drug dealer on the sidewalk. You can’t ignore a knife wielding schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication. If the Officer thinks that entering that house or apartment to deal with said EP will result in the loss of his job he’s going to pull back and wait for SWAT. Why? Because if he forms a perimeter and everyone in the house is murdered he cannot be disciplined. If he enters the house and kills said EP when attacked with said knife and the family claims racism/brutality/murder he’s looking at termination.
When the cameras come arrests for loitering, disorderly, CDS possession and distribution as a well as a host of other offenses will all but cease. A use of force can be justified but look ugly at the same time. High ranking Police Executives and Mayors don’t like ugly - even if ugly is both lawful and necessary. The result is that Officers will be fired or suspended until the message is received that ugly will not be tolerated. At that point active police work will cease - the process has already started.
A lot of folks want body cameras. They’re not going to like what they get namely Police who will arrive slowly and will simply go through the motions when they arrive - if they come at all. The only thing that Officer is required to do is show up for work on time and get to his call for service eventually (which could be hours). If the Police go into hibernation they are untouchable. No one can be fired or prosecuted for doing the bare minimum. Sadly, that’s the future. It’s unfolding right now.
this is a domino, and a big one.
response time just doubled. The effective size of the NYPD was just cut in half. Cops that can find another career will do so. Cops that can relocate to another city will do so.
Both of those groups are exactly the cops you don’t want to lose. What the NYPD will be left with is a rotten core of corrupt cops that don’t give a damn.
They will never get all those worms back in the can. NYC is screwed.
That is when the folks who are now in charge of the government were in the street trying to bring down the system.
Exactly. And the RINO leadership doesn't see we are under full scale attack by the Marxists and Communists.
It may keep them safe when they are called to a bogus situation which is really an ambush. A very real possibility.
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