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The Department of Justice has now launched an investigation into allegations that troopers with the Connecticut State Police may have falsified traffic records to skew racial profiling data.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/troopers-in-connecticut-may-have-fabricated-thousands-of-traffic-tickets-supposedly-issued-to-white-drivers-to-skew-racial-profiling-data-prompting-doj-investigation?fbclid=IwAR3kn8SqA_gtv9QYC6ropb_ArG-9aUOwNQJiOm4b4FwW6O3HmR_LHmmZ0qg

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1 hour ago, JWB said:

It's a village of about 1200 people.  The entire department was two full-time guys who quit because of low pay.  This isn't indicative of a serious issue with policing in America, It's an episode of Corner Gas.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/16/entire-goodhue-mn-police-department-resigns/70600991007/

 

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5 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

 

That is same time hilarious and sad....

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They have fears.  They are part of the state.  They think they should be able to make the people who fall under their purview fear and instantly obey them (woe be to those whose obedience missing or slow in coming).

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I suppose the issue could be they don't trust other agencies to help them. 

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5 hours ago, rmgill said:

I suppose the issue could be they don't trust other agencies to help them. 

The tyranny of "could" over "has."

IOW, I want to see the memorial wall for USDA personnel killed on the job. Then I want a compare-and-contrast meme showing the same thing for Border Patrol.

 

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Doesn't just about every Fed organisation have some kind of SWAT-a-like team?

When you're going on a no-knock raid of somebody's house to arrest them for illegally gathering rainwater, you can't be too careful.

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Yeah there is that. I was just trying to pose a semblance of devil's advocate thinking. 

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3 hours ago, Murph said:

I guess those carrot farmers are really dangerous.

Carrots are associated with witches and witchcraft, so...

 

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18 hours ago, DB said:

Doesn't just about every Fed organisation have some kind of SWAT-a-like team?

When you're going on a no-knock raid of somebody's house to arrest them for illegally gathering rainwater, you can't be too careful.

 

It's all too easy for me to fall into the cynical mindset that all the guns aren't for valid law enforcement, rather for confiscation of stuff* during an expected Great Depression II. 

* Stuff meaning food, booze, guns, 2-way radios, cameras, etc. 

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When we could have fun on the job.  We could never do this today.  Notice that there was not a bit of violence, just some fun.

 

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13 minutes ago, Murph said:

When we could have fun on the job.  We could never do this today.  Notice that there was not a bit of violence, just some fun.

 

ROTFL!

Thanks! I needed that!

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1 hour ago, Murph said:

When we could have fun on the job.  We could never do this today.  Notice that there was not a bit of violence, just some fun.

 

When respect, and a little humility, goes both ways.

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It's not real.  It's from a comedy show called Reno 911!

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On 8/18/2023 at 7:42 PM, Murph said:

I guess those carrot farmers are really dangerous.

Look at the Ukrainian farmers...

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4 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said:

 

Paid or volunteer? 

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From looking into it, many of the officers were fired, suspended, or otherwise gotten rid of by their departments, but probably not given a "bad F5".  The F5 is the document when you retire, resign, are fired that the department sends to TCOLE which they use to update the status of officers.  In order to get a "bad" F5 your department has to provide documentation and even then the officer can challenge it in front of a hearing judge.  All too many judges overturn a "bad" F5 for whatever reason, with it mostly being poor documentation.   I personally did a background on a guy who was fired for cause (sexual crap), given a bad F5 (dishonorable discharge), and when he sued the agency, the city decided rather than fight it (their documentation was good but not perfect, and you have to be perfect), they gave him an updated "honorable" discharge.  We did not hire this guy based on what I found.  

So I suspect that the officers in Coffee City, Texas are mostly unpaid part timers who do it so they can keep their license active, and hope to get back on with a real department.  If you have a good background investigator you can prevent that.  But all too many are lazy who just make phone calls rather than driving and looking into a file.  My driving radius was 4 1/2 hours away max.  So I kept a lot of bad apples from getting hired.  

My F5 reads honorably retired.  It is not hard to get that, just do your job, and don't violate the law.  How hard can it be?

 

 

 

 

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