Posted on 02/26/2021 3:39:31 PM PST by lowbridge
OH. I want to be on the unarmed dumbass squad.
Exactly what I was thinking! “the police department’s $12.5 billion budget – which includes 63 sworn officers” What? Maybe that should be million?
The police union *should* be on that in a heartbeat. But there are no guarantees.
In their position, the union should first collect resumes from all officers, and actively look for job openings in other cities. If the mayor still didn’t take the hint, which is likely, have a “blue flu” strike, in which almost no officers show up to work for 1-3 days.
Make sure all the civilian powers that be know what is going on, so they can arm themselves and hire armed security, so that when the criminals try to rampage, a bunch of criminals get shot.
You really can’t play games with people who are this stupid. Only when the fire is under their butts will they change their mind. And some, of course, are so dumb that half their ass will have to melt first.
No, Cambridge MA has already claimed that title.
Armed and unarmed police aka current and former... this is how they will replace the police with blm activists and communists... by getting half the force to qui on their own and then doing it again.
This is how policing is done in Europe. the Brits have unarmed bobbies and armed tactical police. The French have unarmed traffic and beat cops and the national armed police forces two actually the Police nationale and National Gendarmerie . It doesn’t take guns to write a speeding ticket. Police need to go back to being civil servants who work for us the taxpayers and not jackboot storm troopers.
N.M. has lost and have had shot at many state troopers to the everyday traffic stop. The interstate drug runners would love to see the European model of unarmed traffic police I bet.
Really??? I am going to take Criminal Justice classes——go thru the police academy-—and then I am going to be UNARMED to do my job?
NEVER
That’s more of an issue of procedure. It used to be that more cops died when they answered domestic dispute calls, but procedures changed (separating the warring factions first) and that became far less dangerous.
The car pullover procedure should be the same for everyone. The cop will approach your car with his camera running and his Tazer drawn. Any sudden moves and you’re zapped. Even gramma. You’ll survive, and so will the cop.
Tazer won't work real well when they start shooting before you even get to the door.
Not every procedure covers every eventuality. Cops still get killed in domestic disputes, just a lot fewer than before. It is no reason to develop a good procedure that saves lives.
Oops. It is no reason to stop developing such a procedure...
Maybe they should make that city administration into 2 groups. One,Mayor and all executive function personnel in the “no police protection group” and the second the workers that actually run the city with normal citizen protection.
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