To Protect and to Serve II

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Rickyvol77 said:
Knew that was coming. You can’t violate the social media policy at your work
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Well here we go again. Laws and rules are written. There is always the discretion to enforce that particular law or rule.

Was it just and necessary them to enforce an arbitrary social media rule?
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Well here we go again. Laws and rules are written. There is always the discretion to enforce that particular law or rule.

Was it just and necessary them to enforce an arbitrary social media rule?
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You can’t make political statements representing your department/place of business in uniform and in company property. You wouldn’t do it either
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You can’t make political statements representing your department/place of business in uniform and in company property. You wouldn’t do it either
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You didn't answer the question. Was this worthy of being disciplined or fired? If anything, it is an uplifting message... its good for civilians to know that there are good cops out there.

Now the message we are being sent is good cops get fired. Bad cops get protected.
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
You can’t make political statements representing your department/place of business in uniform and in company property. You wouldn’t do it either
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What happened to that "Thin Blue Line"? Where is Joe Gamaldi at and the Fraternal Order of Police to defend this guy? because we know that the FOP will defend cops that kill civilians.

 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
I would be interested, but I probably would not be surprised at what you guys can do.
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Nah...you might actually get a kick out of this.

So, a year or so ago, I'm working traffic on the "I". FYI (and you know this, Ras), I don't hide. I sit on the side of the road in plain sight, and run LIDAR. So I get up there, and I'm getting 90+ for over an hour.

And then, all of a sudden, nothing. 77 is the best I can get. Right after that, a few of us meet for lunch at a sandwich shop, and I'm talking about it. There's a younger deputy with us...maybe a year on the road...good kid...and he starts laughing and says "Grandpa, you got Wazed."

I have no idea what he's talking about, so he teaches me. I'll be damned.

So I decide to turn it to my advantage. After that, I go sit on an overpass where I can be seen a mile away. Just sit there. Wait 15 minutes, then go sit on the shoulder a mile to the south; then on the overpass a mile south of that; then turn around and work the same route back north. Pull up Waze. There are like 20 "little blue pigs" on the exact route I just ran. And almost every vehicle out there is at 75 or less.

Not one wreck that day. Didn't write a single ticket after lunch. Don't care. Nobody died on my road.

I'd rather write 100 tickets than have to knock on one door, or make that phone call. Waze lets me let them know I am there, without having to get their autograph. I still make my stops, but now it tends to be more of the idiots who think they own the road, as opposed to those who are just trying to get there a little bit quicker.

Take your small victories when you can get them, Ras. Not all of us are robots.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
Nah...you might actually get a kick out of this.

So, a year or so ago, I'm working traffic on the "I". FYI (and you know this, Ras), I don't hide. I sit on the side of the road in plain sight, and run LIDAR. So I get up there, and I'm getting 90+ for over an hour.

And then, all of a sudden, nothing. 77 is the best I can get. Right after that, a few of us meet for lunch at a sandwich shop, and I'm talking about it. There's a younger deputy with us...maybe a year on the road...good kid...and he starts laughing and says "Grandpa, you got Wazed."

I have no idea what he's talking about, so he teaches me. I'll be damned.

So I decide to turn it to my advantage. After that, I go sit on an overpass where I can be seen a mile away. Just sit there. Wait 15 minutes, then go sit on the shoulder a mile to the south; then on the overpass a mile south of that; then turn around and work the same route back north. Pull up Waze. There are like 20 "little blue pigs" on the exact route I just ran. And almost every vehicle out there is at 75 or less.

Not one wreck that day. Didn't write a single ticket after lunch. Don't care. Nobody died on my road.

I'd rather write 100 tickets than have to knock on one door, or make that phone call. Waze lets me let them know I am there, without having to get their autograph. I still make my stops, but now it tends to be more of the idiots who think they own the road, as opposed to those who are just trying to get there a little bit quicker.

Take your small victories when you can get them, Ras. Not all of us are robots.
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Oh, you've told this story earlier in the thread.

To Protect and to Serve II

I thought you were going to tell me something about tracking down the drivers or using it for tracing/recording travel of individuals during coronavirus or something.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
You didn't answer the question. Was this worthy of being disciplined or fired? If anything, it is an uplifting message... its good for civilians to know that there are good cops out there.

Now the message we are being sent is good cops get fired. Bad cops get protected.
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He violated the social media policy and they asked him to take it down and he told them to F off. Try that with your boss. If he hadn’t posted in uniform in his cruiser it likely would’ve been ok.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
What happened to that "Thin Blue Line"? Where is Joe Gamaldi at and the Fraternal Order of Police to defend this guy? because we know that the FOP will defend cops that kill civilians.

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FOP is an organization that one pays dues in. That’s their job to defend police
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I bet traffic stops in general suck
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Possibility of being shot or run over. Having to deal with lunatics. In the times I have been pulled over, I act respectful and take my lumps. Only one time I actually went to court and the officer did not show up. I asked the judge to dismiss the case as I took time off from work that morning and she refused and rescheduled. I was rather pissed at her and was quite verbal. She had embarrassment and anger at the officer. I honestly thought it should of lawfully been dismissed and the bailiff acted like she was doing me a favor and could of been in jail scare tactics.Just paid the ticket.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Possibility of being shot or run over. Having to deal with lunatics. In the times I have been pulled over, I act respectful and take my lumps. Only one time I actually went to court and the officer did not show up. I asked the judge to dismiss the case as I took time off from work that morning and she refused and rescheduled. I was rather pissed at her and was quite verbal. She had embarrassment and anger at the officer. I honestly thought it should of lawfully been dismissed and the bailiff acted like she was doing me a favor and could of been in jail scare tactics.Just paid the ticket.
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They’ve got you by the balls. That was crappy on the judge’s part. If the cop can’t make his court date and the citizen does... tough titty....ticket dismissed..... unless you were out mooning the police
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
Nah...you might actually get a kick out of this.

So, a year or so ago, I'm working traffic on the "I". FYI (and you know this, Ras), I don't hide. I sit on the side of the road in plain sight, and run LIDAR. So I get up there, and I'm getting 90+ for over an hour.

And then, all of a sudden, nothing. 77 is the best I can get. Right after that, a few of us meet for lunch at a sandwich shop, and I'm talking about it. There's a younger deputy with us...maybe a year on the road...good kid...and he starts laughing and says "Grandpa, you got Wazed."

I have no idea what he's talking about, so he teaches me. I'll be damned.

So I decide to turn it to my advantage. After that, I go sit on an overpass where I can be seen a mile away. Just sit there. Wait 15 minutes, then go sit on the shoulder a mile to the south; then on the overpass a mile south of that; then turn around and work the same route back north. Pull up Waze. There are like 20 "little blue pigs" on the exact route I just ran. And almost every vehicle out there is at 75 or less.

Not one wreck that day. Didn't write a single ticket after lunch. Don't care. Nobody died on my road.

I'd rather write 100 tickets than have to knock on one door, or make that phone call. Waze lets me let them know I am there, without having to get their autograph. I still make my stops, but now it tends to be more of the idiots who think they own the road, as opposed to those who are just trying to get there a little bit quicker.

Take your small victories when you can get them, Ras. Not all of us are robots.
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I’m sure I said this the first time, but I really love this story. Wish more thought like this.
 
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In case anyone was worried, the areas of downtown Nashville that tend to thicken with pedestrian traffic are being heavily patrolled since we entered Phase 1 on Monday so we can be sure that no more than six people come together at a time. Obviously, this is a political allocation of resources and not a police decision. But it is kind of odd to get stuck behind cruisers doing 10 mph in the Gulch during rush hour.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
In case anyone was worried, the areas of downtown Nashville that tend to thicken with pedestrian traffic are being heavily patrolled since we entered Phase 1 on Monday so we can be sure that no more than six people come together at a time. Obviously, this is a political allocation of resources and not a police decision. But it is kind of odd to get stuck behind cruisers doing 10 mph in the Gulch during rush hour.
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The "Gulch" I don't even think existed 15-20 years ago. I wonder how many of these restaurants that have popped up in "The Gulch", "SoBro", or "Midtown" will survive once all of this blows over.
 
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I'm torn on these auditors, as Ras calls them. I fear a good portion of them are only there to attempt to harass or make an already difficult job more difficult by creating nuisance calls, if they are anything like Nashville and other cities they are already stretched thin, not their fault but they have to deal with it. But there is good that comes from it. Surely there's a better way to ensure we have the right people in law enforcement.
 
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KB5252 said:
I'm torn on these auditors, as Ras calls them. I fear a good portion of them are only there to attempt to harass or make an already difficult job more difficult by creating nuisance calls, if they are anything like Nashville and other cities they are already stretched thin, not their fault but they have to deal with it. But there is good that comes from it. Surely there's a better way to ensure we have the right people in law enforcement.
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I tend to agree. While there are questionable cops out there, these guys are agitators. They’re looking to get an angry response for their videos and etc.
 
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