Posted on 09/08/2020 4:03:36 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The Rochester Police Department’s “entire command staff” announced their retirement on Tuesday, the mayor there said, amid raging protests over the death of Daniel Prude, the black man who was killed while being subdued by city cops while he suffered an apparent breakdown.
Chief La’Ron Singletary, a 20-year veteran of the force, and Deputy Chief Joseph Morabito, who served the department for 34 years, released statements moments before a scheduled briefing with Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and the City Council about last night’s demonstrations.
During the meeting, Warren told council members that “the entire Rochester Police Department’s command staff has announced their retirement,” adding that Deputy Chief Mark Simmons was also stepping down.
“There may be a number of others who will decide to leave as well and retire,” Warren warned.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
I’m sure there are those who disagree (I don’t care, because I’m right), but I am against having women as police chiefs. All women, black or white.
Just as I am 100% against the military having women commanding men in combat.
“If you are in law enforcement and can retire, this would be a very good time to do that.”
Let’s say retire from that job and go take a new job somewhere else.
In my experience, a guy who leaves a job in this manner is quitting on his BOSS, first and foremost.
Here’s Rochester’s big chance to have the entire police command structure consist of transgender, transracial, Muslim POC. That will quiet those protesters right down.
Big Police force, 800+. There’s probably some capable Cops ready to fill in whom are years away from retirement pension and need the job. Then again it could be 800 Barney Fife’s until they get their feet wet. I wouldn’t want to be a resident of that town.
Need more Snake Pliskin’s. Escape from New York, Escape from LA, Escape from Seattle, Escape from Portland, Escape from Kenosha, Escape from Rochester ... and the beat goes on.
The Story Behind Northern Ireland’s Peace Walls
Belfast is a small city, but it’s demarcated by almost 100 ‘peace walls’ that separate Catholic and Protestant areas.
Once serving as peace-keeping measures, they are now, in a post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland, popular tourist locations. Here’s our brief guide to Northern Ireland’s peace lines.
Peace Wall, Belfast © Nick / Flickr
Inception:
The first of the peace walls were built in 1969 after a series of sectarian riots rocked Belfast. The walls, established as a temporary measure, were a very simple solution to the problem of keeping Republicans and Loyalists apart.
However, due to their effectiveness, they never came down. Indeed, as time went on, the walls got longer and more numerous. While most of the walls were constructed during the early years of the Troubles, around one-third have popped up since 1994 when the IRA declared an effective ceasefire.
One of the most famous peace walls sits between the Loyalist Shankill Road and the Irish Republican Falls Road. Tensions between the two streets have existed since the 1800s, and the Troubles saw a rise in violence in this already violent area. As a solution, the peace wall separating the two popped up. This wall stretches for 800 metres (2,624.6 feet), an imposing multi-level concrete structure.
Peace wall behind the Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden © Jennifer Boyer / Flickr
The walls are not limited to Belfast, however. While the majority exist within Belfast’s bounds, there are also walls in Derry, Portadown, and Lurgan. The Protestant Corcrain Road and the Catholic Orbins Drive are separated from one another in Portadown, while the Protestant Fountain Estate and Catholic Bishop Street in Derry are also split down the middle.
If the walls were placed end-to-end, they would stretch to over 34 kilometres (21.1 miles), with the longest single wall adding five kilometres (3.1 miles) by itself.
Derry Peace Line © nathaniel stren / Flickr
Evolution:
At least you've figured it out. Most others have not. They dwell on the details instead of the big picture.
With the Left, it is ALWAYS about the socialist revolution, not the minutia most people focus on.
She will be there until right after the election. I don’t think that is by chance.
The most liberal and “woke” among the remaining officers will receive the command promotions. Qualifications will be irrelevant. I am not saying they won’t be qualified, necessarily. I am just saying that the Mayor will make sure the wokiest is Chief, and the new female Chief (for sure it will be a female, I guarantee it) will pick her command among the wokiest left to pick from.
It will become hell on earth.
Good riddance.
I with you, they look and act ridiculous.
It doesn’t work that way...there will be a nationwide search for a suitable black or Hispanic candidate. Whites need not apply.
Correct, the date is suspect.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
You are correct, sir. Elevating women to positions of power speeds the collapse of Western Civilization, which leftwads believe will allow them to move in and take over.
Did he take the red pill?
I had been in the computer business a little over ten years, was having a ball and making money hand over fist {late 70s} and took a job with a computer company that was also big in the fed gummint contracting business.
Selling commercial and selling the federal gummit are two completely different approaches and the VP of sales with this company came out of the federal sales side.
Long story short, I quit after I met this guy, and hadn't been on board for two weeks.
There is more to it but I never regretted any business decision I ever made, even the ones that cost me big bucks.
You do it, you own it.
Nowhere in their job descriptions did it state that city
officials would exclusively side with known criminals
against it’s officers. It wasn’t in the fine print
that officers would be jailed for using department
policies long in force in their department.
Nowhere was it written that officer would be blocked from
using equipment known to save lives. Nowhere was it
written that officers would have to stand there as bricks,
pipes. molotov cocktails, and lead bullets were sent in
their direction, after they were ordered to stand down
and not exert force against rioters and looter.
Officers have been seriously inured, beaten, and killed.
Now back to your diatribe on unfair salaries.
Are you writing for ANTIFA and BLM in your spare time?
I haven’t once seen cops out there recently and lamented
them being overpaid.
Fecal matter meet oscillating rotatory device. This does not bode well.
Yep. I’m happy with it.
In the meeting he tried to give me a Hobson’s Choice of sorts (two equally unpleasant choices that really constituted a single bad choice) to determine “what he was going to do with me” (since I was so unmanageable).
“So, what’s it going to be?” he pressed.
“Nope, I don’t think I care for either of those choices - at all” I replied.
“You have to choose one or the other” he sneered at me. He was hoping I would get mad and quit.
“There’s one option that we hadn’t considered - well two if we count your leaving the company”
That got a snort from him.
“I don’t know who you had to blow to get your job, but I’m sure that you’ll never get as good a position as this ever again. So I can’t see you leaving”
“And you’re too pinheaded too recognize that I’m the best employee you have. So I doubt that we’ll ever get along. So the alternative is that I leave. I hereby announce my intention to retire, effective two weeks from today”.
His bald little head turned a bright shade of red but he didn’t say anything, instead picked up his papers and left the room.
My two lead men (both of which I had initially hired) were like church mice - but with huge smiles.
That was a moment I’ll always treasure!
I think you are reading things that are not there. My point is these guys retired on taxpayer money and one of them is just 40 years old and that means there are many more like him. You want police that are well trained and well paid? Pay for good police work and stop paying for people who can retire at age 50 or even less. Ever wonder why the post office loses so much money? It’s largely because for every one doing work they have to pay for one that’s retired. Don’t get me started on teachers.
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