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Moms, kids find officer's loaded gun in South Austin park
Austin American Statesman ^ | 7.7.08 | Tony Plohetski

Posted on 07/08/2008 3:19:12 PM PDT by trumandogz

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To: trumandogz

I think that he was meeting someone at the park for a romantic tyrst. A few years ago I would had thought of the female persuasion but this day and age it could have been a male.When he took off his equipment belt to get more comfortable, the gun came out of the holster. The training a police dog story I do not buy.


41 posted on 07/09/2008 5:08:08 AM PDT by sport
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To: basil; txflake; ValerieTexas

I heard about this yesterday. Just how can you MISS your weapon?


42 posted on 07/09/2008 6:29:39 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: trumandogz

Some of the radio and television reports in the Austin area are saying the gun was found on the bottom (end) of the slide. I’m thinking that if you accidently drop you gun on a metal slide, A, you would hear it hit, and B it would not stay on the slide. So, the question becomes: why did he disarm and place his gun on the slide? What activity did he engage in that was so special that he forgot all about the gun?


43 posted on 07/09/2008 7:39:01 AM PDT by basil (Support the Second Amendment-buy another gun today!)
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To: trumandogz
"It doesn't look like it was done in negligence."

Done? Negligence takes no effort.

44 posted on 07/09/2008 7:59:42 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If given a choice between a POW and a POS, I'll take the POW.)
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To: Ramius

I guess that depends upon the weight of the cop. Does this cop have weight issues? If he is hauling around 40 lbs of lard it would probably be harder to notice a 5 lb reduction in weight on the belt.


45 posted on 07/09/2008 8:05:00 AM PDT by allmendream
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To: basil

My guess that also. He was in the park at that time meeting someone and for whatever reason he had his pants down. Simply, use your imagination to determine what he may have been doing by the slide in a park at 5:00 in the morning.

I once worked with a woman in Austin who bragged to her female coworkers that she and other women in town had a fetish for cops and that they had some sort of network where they would give APD cops their phone numbers and would meet them whenever wherever to play the Bubba & Monica game.


46 posted on 07/09/2008 9:58:32 AM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: ClearCase_guy
In the park. Removing parts of his uniform. At night (or 5 AM, anyway). Well, ya see, I was training a police dog. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

"I wassssss.....uuuuhhhhhhhh, Training my dog! Yeah, training my dog, that's the ticket!"

47 posted on 07/09/2008 10:44:21 AM PDT by FooBarBaz (A coward judges all he sees by what he is.)
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To: trumandogz

You win! LOL! This liberal bastion in the middle of a red state is so often a source of embarassment to most of the rest of Texas.


48 posted on 07/09/2008 11:21:38 AM PDT by basil (Support the Second Amendment-buy another gun today!)
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To: pesto

Ping! See how much excitement we have in Austin—LOL!


49 posted on 07/09/2008 11:25:43 AM PDT by basil (Support the Second Amendment-buy another gun today!)
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To: Ramius

Have you priced televisions lately?!?!?


50 posted on 07/09/2008 11:46:16 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: trumandogz

The dumbest part is that they gave the cop his gun back. That idiot should never be allowed to carry a gun again. His “dog training” story does not pass the smell test.


51 posted on 07/09/2008 11:46:44 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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Today on the local news the cop in question is blaming a new type of holster.

I am with you, he was doing something else in that part instead of working with his dog, I mean police dog.


52 posted on 07/09/2008 4:36:17 PM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: basil; sport; pesto; txflake

Tha APD has more problems than a lost weapon.


Two Austin officers suspended 90 days


Their relationship affected their job performance, police chief says.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/10/0710suspend.html


AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has suspended two officers for 90 days each and demoted one of them after he said they failed to heed warnings that their relationship was interfering with their job performances, according to disciplinary memos released Wednesday.

On more than one occasion, the documents said, the officers failed to respond to nearby calls so they could spend time together.

The memos said that supervisors told Cpl. Michelle Cross, who has been demoted to the officer rank, and officer Carlos Saldivar to stop spending excessive amounts of time together during work because of the perceptions and rumors it was causing on their downtown patrol shift.

“It was clearly understood by both officers that they were to cease spending so much time together during work hours unless it was a business necessity in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety,” the memos said.

The documents said the two continued the behavior and gave examples. For instance, they said, Saldivar at times would leave his patrol partner to spend time with Cross. They also reportedly spent as much as four to six hours together per shift drinking coffee or eating lunch.

Acevedo wrote in the memos that an investigation into Saldivar’s activities “revealed a pattern of failing to devote his time and attention to the business of the department.”

Acevedo also wrote that Cross repeatedly failed to properly supervise officers.


53 posted on 07/10/2008 7:23:12 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

In another world , probably neither of them would have been hired in the first place, but if they had both would have been fired.

But we are living in the age where diversity, affirmative action, and political correctness counts instead of ability.

Therefore, since both appear , to me anyway, to be at least affirmative action hires I do not believe they have anything to worry about so far as staying on the payroll goes.

Diversity, affirmative action, and political correctiness will eventually destroy this Nation.


54 posted on 07/10/2008 8:07:28 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport
The problem is that Chief Acevedo came here to "clean up" the APD and let people know he will have the offciers work closer with the "minority community". So far, he has fired several officers - all white - and let several monority officers "slide" on more severe offenses. I don't think he is here for the long run.
55 posted on 07/10/2008 8:17:32 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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