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Police academy class slogan: Cause PTSD
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| Dec. 25, 2007
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Posted on 12/25/2007 8:22:47 PM PST by neverdem
Associated Press
A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder. Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a slogan that is printed on its graduation programs, and the class of 43 graduates came up with "Don't suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it."
According to the Veterans Association, tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers suffer from PTSD, which causes nightmares, flashbacks and physical symptoms that make sufferers feel as if they are reliving trauma, even many years later. Crime, accidents and other trauma can cause it in civilians.
Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney, who attended the Dec. 14 graduation, pointed out the slogan to the academy's director, Jeff Black, minutes before the ceremony began, Raney said. A photograph of the program was e-mailed anonymously to news outlets throughout the state.
"That's not something we encourage or condone," Black said. "It shouldn't have been there. It was inappropriate."
Black said the class president was ex-military, and that the slogan "slipped in." He declined to identify the graduate. Black said future slogans would be vetted by academy leaders.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: boredmedia; communistgoals; donutwatch; gramsci; police; policestate; ptsd; rkba; roidrage; slownewsday; thugwithabadge; tommylasorda
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:22:48 PM PST
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
It’s not to late for some much needed career changes.
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:27:36 PM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:27:43 PM PST
by
davisfh
To: neverdem
Well, the runner-up slogan was: “We’re going to shoot your dog”.
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:31:58 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: Jeff Head; Billthedrill; Myrddin
That cop needs a psych evaluation. Merry Christmas!
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:32:21 PM PST
by
neverdem
(Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
To: neverdem
The new Gestapo?
Meadow Muffin
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:32:38 PM PST
by
rwgal
To: neverdem
As a public citizen, I would be very concerned whether a police officer is qualified to keep their job if this is the way they think?
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:34:48 PM PST
by
rawhide
To: rwgal
They’re all smelling the blood, for when She Who Must Not Be Named is inaugurated, they know there’s no bag limit.
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:40:13 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: Old Sarge
I would bet that if you followed the career of the clown who proposed that saying, there will be many citizens shot or beaten.
Meadow Muffin
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:43:47 PM PST
by
rwgal
To: rwgal
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:51:06 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
To: ClearCase_guy; pandoraou812
Followed by “Tase him again, Bro!”
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:55:40 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Be the answer to someone else's prayer.)
To: neverdem
Who is the boss, gumshoe? Hint: it’s not you.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:16:36 PM PST
by
Sunny Poipu
(Somebody else in Sunny Poipu for a while.)
To: neverdem
nutcases on the way to our city streets
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:24:06 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
One has to wonder if this kind of mindset wasn’t somehow cultivated by the instructors in the academy.
Seems the thugs in training wouldn’t have been quite so open and blatant about their contempt for the citizenry otherwise.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:32:43 PM PST
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: neverdem
I would never look to a figure like Timothy McVeigh—Oklahoma City bomber—for much coherence but I do remember a few things he wrote while waiting for trial. McVeigh said he was disturbed by the evolution of American police forces from traditional policeman to paramilitary operator. He said you could see this in weapons, equipment, tactics and a new view that all citizens were potential enemies and should be handled as such. This was part of his wider concept that America was beset by a creeping totalitarianism turning the U.S. into a police state.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:42:36 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: neverdem
The one I’ve always liked is,
“Homicide Division...My day begins when yours ends”
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:42:45 PM PST
by
Gator113
(My short list..Fred, Hunter, Romney.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:42:59 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: neverdem
There’s nothing wrong with a police state if you are the State Police.
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:07:01 PM PST
by
11x62
To: neverdem
hmmm. seems when faced with the choice of being pro-military or anti-cop, most around here choose anti-cop.
interesting. i thought there would be more "this guy served his country well. where's the sense of humor?"
guess not. anti-cop vitriol wins out.
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