Oakland PD Stunned By Day of Loss
Another tragic example of the dangers out there and the crazed lunatics that our society is in danger of. And if the stories of bystanders taunting the police as these officers lay dying are true, God help us. Stay safe!By Terry Collins and Lisa Leff Associated PressOAKLAND, Calif. — Bouquets of flowers from grieving residents were piled up at a growing memorial in front of the Oakland police department after its worst single day death toll.Three officers were killed Saturday during separate confrontations with a 26-year-old parolee who relatives said feared returning to jail. A fourth officer was on life support.”We …Read more […..]
Dallas Police Department Dropping Police Code For Plain English
I am surprised this hasn’t happened earlier. Memorizing so many codes can be challenging!By: ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News eaasen@dallasnews.com Catch a cop show over the past several decades and these strings of numbers barked over police radios might sound familiar: “1-Adam-12, a 4-15 fight.” …”We have a 9-11. Armed robbery in progress.” Or in the words of the bumbling Barney Fife: “Mayberry Unit No. 1 over and, uh, Roger. Roger. Out and under. 10-40. Bye.” But many real-life police departments are ditching the digits, replacing the lingo with plain English. In Dallas, that means so long “7,” hello “minor accident.” …Read more […..]
Easy To Second Guess….
It is very easy for people not involved in a situation to Monday Morning Quarterback and decide what should have been done. This article is interesting as this type of situation can occur to any police officer. As we all know, sometimes it is dam if you do, dam if you don’t.http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/1798464-NOPD-officer-fired-after-failing-to-shoot-at-gunman/By Brendan McCarthy Times-PicayuneNEW ORLEANS — Patrolling Algiers one August night, New Orleans police officer Stephen Neveaux and his partner hear a series of explosions. He drives toward the noise.Soon, they see a man standing about 50 feet away …Read more […..]
Losing a Case in Court, Not to Worry
New officers take their jobs very seriously. I mean, very, very seriously. As time goes on and experience and reality set in this seriousness lessens. Not that an experienced officer isn’t serious about the job it is just that writing traffic tickets aren’t a big deal anymore and losing court cases do bother us as much. In the early years of my career I remember getting very upset if one of my traffic tickets was thrown out or if I lost a trial on one, probably because the goofball judge knew their attorney if they had one. If the person who got off looked at me and gave me a sneering smile as if they got one on me I got angry …Read more […..]
Is This Some Kind of Payback?
Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’The Reverend Noble Samuel was driving to the studio when a car pulled over in front of him. A man got out and came over to ask him directions in Urdu.Mr Samuel, based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London, said: ‘He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the door.He started slapping …Read more […..]
Religious Discrimination?
Can this type of thing be common in the USA?Officer ‘Bullied Because Of Beliefs’ 09-Mar-09 Claiming religious discrimination and unfair dismissal, the ex PC is taking Bedfordshire Police to an employment tribunal… A Muslim officer claims he was bullied out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a “f***ing Paki”. PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly talked in front of him about how they were “better” than their ethnic-minority colleagues. The married father-of-two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from …Read more […..]
FBI Director Mueller: A Mumbai-style attack can happen in the U.S.
How many cities around the world could fall prey to a Mumbai-style attack? How many cities here in the United States? Could a similar attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? These were the questions posed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in an address before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. last week. Muller said that the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 and wounded more than 300 others in Mumbai three months ago “reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact†and that “the simplest …Read more […..]