Ridiculous Police News (Specific events)

[Dimmauk]

And lol at Dim wanting to be a cop. How does that work, do you bring your belts to the interview or just re-enact a fight with Marine with some airkicks and chops while offering to break a board in half?

Should I bust in with mace and zipties instead? Or a combo of both with a speech about being expendable?

[Cadsuane]

All the hero complexes in this thread are almost as funny as the feelings of inadequacy bubbling up as rage from the civilians in the thread. What a show.

Keep sawing at the branch you're sitting on there buddy. If I enlist, can I pull off this middle ground maneuver too?

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

Keep sawing at the branch you're sitting on there buddy. If I enlist, can I pull off this middle ground maneuver too?

I'm ashamed I even know you. You can't be serious.

[Denchi]

I know that crash pretty well actually.... was the state police pursuit, down the j-way. Responded to assist in that before the crash. The scenario is exactly why we have a very strict no chase policy.

Sorry to hear about your loss

Oh yeah forgot you worked over there. Yeah I grew up with Paul, he was my brother's age and a super nice guy. Wasn't best friends with him...but my family is close with his family, my best friends were best friends with him, just a real stand up guy.

It's just one of those things.....it doesn't make a lot of sense that that dude would start running through residential streets with his lights off....so dumb. I know the driver pleaded not guilty but I'm actually not totally sure what happened after that, do you remember if he got jailtime? I think his pregnant wife was in the car with him as well.....

Either way, I'm glad the policy got changed, there never really seems to be good things that happen during high speed chases, and in this day and age there are probably other ways to apprehend someone even after they're caught at a traffic stop.

[Xno Kappa]

All I know is my dick is clearly the biggest.

[Nephlite]

Also, just want to say you guys are heroes. This thread has me thinking about becoming a police officer.

If I have a degree, do I automatically get promoted past beat cop?

What kind of degree? Usually they look for something related to law enforcement. I know a guy with a Master's in Safety and Security and he got promoted to head of the traffic division within a year or two. You'll have to start out like a grunt so that means you're expendable.

@jmc We also have a no-chase policy but there are exceptions like armed carjackings and RHUG's. Although, it does kinda suck when you hear priority over the air for an officer struck by a MV and the watch commander calls off the pursuit. Happens a lot more in urban areas for some reason.

All I know is my dick is clearly the biggest.

Is that before or after you bang hot chicks from clubs, drive your BMW at 120 mph with one hand out the window smokin' a jay, and pimp slapping bitches like it's 1998?

[Xno Kappa]

Usually after I bust a few caps at the popo screaming fuck da police, like many of my gangsta brethren here on BG.

[Salodin]

So wait, if you don't chase, how do you catch the bad guys?

[Melena]

So wait, if you don't chase, how do you catch the bad guys?

Turn it over to state highway patrol or wait for them to inevitably crash. Out here the agency I work for (civilian position, I just get to hear all the stories and spent a year working on dispatch's machines) they chase but they have a bunch of different criteria that cause a pursuit to be ended immediately.

[Gregorio]

Combination of noting the license plate and make/model of the car, description of the driver, and dropping back and letting the helicopter follow them until they bail out of the car or leave the jurisdiction.

[jmc]

So wait, if you don't chase, how do you catch the bad guys?

Most of the chases that take place, are after some type of investigation here in town. So units usually know exactly who they are chasing, and can just have the fugitive unit grab them on warrants later on.

Or, the liberty of being in a town with a shitload of officers on duty is that if we stop chasing the individual fleeing will crash into something anyways and we can pick him/her up when they do.


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Chases that lead to the highway will be taken over by the state police. If the state police take over, they will continue to chase if it remains on the highway. They usually finish the chase, when the fleeing vehicle tries to exit the highway.

[Day]

Late but NCIS is a good show.

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

The cops getting a kick out of 'expendable' is pretty funny. Let me help to take you back down a peg or two.

Police officers provide no real value to society that can't be instantly replaced. When a cop dies, nothing of value is lost, their role can easily be filled in a month with a new recruit to do the same exact thing. You aren't a profession that continues to master a trade that society can't instantly replace. An electrician, a butcher, a plumber, a chemist - those are examples of professions in society that are not expendable. They take time to train and master their craft. If we lost any or all of these in a society it the impact would be felt.

If all of the police in a city were removed or died, you could easily call in the National Guard or even Army reservists to fill their role for a month while new recruits are trained and put on the ground. Police don't grow into any greater position that further benefits society. You are drawn from the population as mostly poorly educated and without ambition to act as security and for show of strength on the idea that that is what prevents crime. You rarely prevent crime through force of action or expertise. Sorry to smash your delusions of heroism and grandeur all over the place but dems da fax, Jack. You're a drain on society, you're very easily replaced, and while some of you, sometimes, may do heroic sounding acts - you're nothing more than basic trained grunts on the ground to provide an illusion of order. When you die, the very next die no one in society notices the impact of your absence. Another pair of boots are on the ground and time goes on.

[Xno Kappa]

Can I be the Van Damme of the expendables? Cocaine and bitches all day, all while the camera zooms in on my nuts whenever I do a jumping spinning roundhouse kick.

[Dimmauk]

Aren't like 75% of the police force ex military? LOL

[Brill Weave]

Aren't like 75% of the police force ex military? LOL

Rest become prison guards!

[Gregorio]

I guess I should learn to mace and zip tie dogs so I don't become expendable.

And there certainly aren't any electricians, plumbers, or chemists being trained as we speak. There's definitely not any schools dedicated to specifically training those professions or anything. Once an electrician dies, he will NEVER be replaced.

[Dimmauk]

I guess I should learn to mace and zip tie dogs so I don't become expendable.

And there certainly aren't any electricians, plumbers, or chemists being trained as we speak. There's definitely not any schools dedicated to specifically training those professions or anything. Once an electrician dies, he will NEVER be replaced.

As someone with a degree in electronics, I weep for the future.

[Gregorio]

As someone with a degree in electronics, I weep for the future.

I know I feel your pain. My brother is about to graduate with a masters in electrical engineering. It sucks that he will never get a job because they won't even bother replacing the next person who dies in his field because they're apparently irreplaceable. People will just drop to their knees weeping and never move on past the last guys death. If he only dropped out of high school and went to a 1 month police academy, he'd be set.

[Dimmauk]

I know I feel your pain. My brother is about to graduate with a masters in electrical engineering. It sucks that he will never get a job because they won't even bother replacing the next person who dies in his field because they're apparently irreplaceable. People will just drop to their knees weeping and never move on past the last guys death. If he only dropped out of high school and went to a 1 month police academy, he'd be set.

I have the same degree. I had to choke out my predecessor and steal his identity.