Cops Thread

50PoundHead said:
Love that Sarah Silverman.

Congress doesn't pass a whole bunch of parking or traffic laws. Yeah, they pass a ton of laws and about 90% of them aren't really needed, but I think there's a bit of a disconnect--at least for me--between the actions of police officers in enforcing laws and the laws themselves.
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You know, even though I'm against police brutality about 99.99999999999% of the time if it were Sarah Silverman on the receiving end I might have to make an exception. She gets on my absolute last freakin' nerve.
 
I'm a little surprised that noone took offense at my Sarah Silverman remark. I guess being on "ignore" by 97% of the board has its advantages.
 
[URL="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Fchicago_news&id=9444816]"Here's something[/url], which I'm relaying not solely to demonstrate that I don't only post negative things about the po-lice, but also because (a) it's a refreshing and rational strategic shift and (b) it's very local to me:

Face-to-face communication is the key to cutting crime in some of city's most violent neighborhoods, Chicago police say.

Under the department's custom notification program, a CPD commander finds out who is likely to either cause trouble or be the victim of it and goes to their home, sits down to talk, and lays out a choice. Choose to stay out of trouble, and the community will help. If not, jail time could be longer than expected.

"My message is this is about the community wanting to end the violence," Chicago Police Commander Barbara West said. West is commander in the Austin district where the intervention program started as a pilot six months ago. Since then, she's knocked on the doors of 29 active gang members to talk.

"There've been times when I've not been received, the doors not opened - slammed in my face, but there've been times when they actually invite me in to sit at the table and talk about this with them, and have a conversation," Cmdr. West said.

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In each intervention, the commander is accompanied by a community partner who offers the carrot - potential job contacts, housing needs, and maybe drug treatment.

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Chicago police say there have been 60 of these interventions, and police say to date, none has been involved in any new felony arrests; seventeen have resulted in some form of social services assistance.

"It's early. It's early. And this is only preliminary stuff, but it's kind of exciting," Supt. McCarthy said.

Critics refer to the interventions as Hug-A-Thug, but McCarthy said there is no negotiation.

"It's not an enforcement strategy, it's an intervention," he said. "I don't care what people think. If it works, I will give them a hug myself."
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You think police should choke someone out for smart ass talking? Pardon my freak out here, but what the **** is wrong with you? No one should ever have physical harm brought on them by anyone acting as a "law enforcer" unless they're a threat to themselves or others. Standing in handcuffs is not a threat.

And the Sheriff doesn't agree with you as he fired the deputy. Not anything like paid leave while investigating. Straight up fired. I'm sure the kid did something to piss him off. But he was restrained, there's no reason to choke someone out who's restrained. If he was swinging wildly at you and you didn't have time to pin him down and cuff him, maybe.

Will be fun when this ****er goes to jail. I'd be shocked if he doesn't kill himself before his sentence is up.
 
So the girl refused to pull over and aimed her car at the cop. she then hit him with the car and he returned fire. What's the problem?
 
Krgrecw said:
So the girl refused to pull over and aimed her car at the cop. she then hit him with the car and he returned fire. What's the problem?
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seriously. You think cops do no wrong. Most of them are actually stupid and that badge goes to their head and they lose common sense in the process.

He could always get her later. He can read tags, call in help, but he put himself in harms way. I asked my cousin, who is a cop, and he said whatever procedures they have there is messed up, that is a situation waiting to happen and it did. Under no circumstances as a lone office you do this. Just like the guy who shot at the van with kids in it and got fired for it. He was an idiot as well. I am going to ask my neighbor who is a cop tomorrow on what procedures they have for this. I am pretty sure they would call in for help if they think something is highly suspicious.

I hope he gets nailed and the county sued for his incompetence and death of a teenager.
 
AerchAngel said:
seriously. You think cops do no wrong. Most of them are actually stupid and that badge goes to their head and they lose common sense in the process.

He could always get her later. He can read tags, call in help, but he put himself in harms way. I asked my cousin, who is a cop, and he said whatever procedures they have there is messed up, that is a situation waiting to happen and it did. Under no circumstances as a lone office you do this. Just like the guy who shot at the van with kids in it and got fired for it. He was an idiot as well. I am going to ask my neighbor who is a cop tomorrow on what procedures they have for this. I am pretty sure they would call in for help if they think something is highly suspicious.

I hope he gets nailed and the county sued for his incompetence and death of a teenager.
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AA, you preach accountability and personal responsibility like I do. You have to admit what this girl did was stupid. She committed a few felonies right there. I'm not saying the cop is innocent but if she would had just pulled over like most reasonable people would do none of this would had happened. What's the worse that would had happened? I imagine coming from a party in a field she'd probably catch a DUI and a small drug charge. She Would had been out the jail the next morning.

Let the cop have his day in court but the girl did hit him with her car which is a big crime if the DA is in a bad mood
 
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