To Protect and to Serve II

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tim said:
Do you work with other Electrical Engineers? I mean, is there a such thing as an electrical engineer emergency? Apply some logic. Light doesnt work vs chernobyl type of meltdown.
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I'm more than willing to play along in your hypothetical game, but I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
An officer stabbing is higher priority than a vehicular accident? I find that to be amazing considering the way these cops patrol the streets. You would normally think traffic safety was #1...
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well attempted murder and aggravated assault type calls on anyone, officer or otherwise are usually pretty high priority calls. Especially if the person commits the act and runs and it is unknown where they fled to. There are 20-25 traffic accidents a day, albeit mostly minor ones without injury.

It doesn’t make the accidents or traffic safety “not important”, just means we handle what we get called for when we get it.

I once had to bypass a business emergency alarm, a traffic accident with possible injury, and a possible stolen car in progress because I had a domestic call where a father threw his 20 yr old daughter threw a plate glass window and was threatening her with a knife. Now just because I had to rush to that call didn’t mean I thought the other calls were less important. There are only so many officers out there. And I hear it’s even worse today at KPD especially due to their low staffing. We had 545 officers back 20 years ago when I worked there. Now they have like 260. It’s crazy
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Just curious, but how many cops does it take to catch one or two bad guys? Sounds like the entire police force was chasing down the alleged stabbing suspect in this case and we recently had 5 South Florida jurisdictions participating in the UPS driver incident.
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Depends on the call and where it is and each situation is different. We had an escaped prisoner call where he ran into the woods recently. I would estimate 45 officers from 6 different agencies including 4 K9s and a helicopter were involved and we caught him within an hour. Overkill? Maybe, but you wouldn’t want a career violent felon coming up to your back porch or carjacking your wife either trying to escape
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Do you hide behind signs with a radar gun? Ever ticket anyone for tinted windows, busted tag light or seatbelt violation?
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No I don’t shoot radar although when I was a rookie I was assigned to do so in school zones. Had a guy who went 110 mph in a school zone at 730am with kids crossing at a crosswalk. Of course you think it was wrong I arrested him right? Oh yea he was drunk too

As for other “minor” traffic violations if I pulled someone over for broken tail light I usually gave them a simple verbal warning to fix it. Unless they had something else going on

The only other time I’d usually cite someone for traffic violations would be because they did something to be at fault in an accident
 
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Rickyvol77 said:
Depends on the call and where it is and each situation is different. We had an escaped prisoner call where he ran into the woods recently. I would estimate 45 officers from 6 different agencies including 4 K9s and a helicopter were involved and we caught him within an hour. Overkill? Maybe, but you wouldn’t want a career violent felon coming up to your back porch or carjacking your wife either trying to escape
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Well, if the career violent felon has shot or stabbed an officer, pretty sure he wouldn't think twice about hurting anyone else. That's just my take.
 
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I know this is a anti Law Enforcement thread but posting anyways

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Rickyvol77 said:
No I don’t shoot radar although when I was a rookie I was assigned to do so in school zones. Had a guy who went 110 mph in a school zone at 730am with kids crossing at a crosswalk. Of course you think it was wrong I arrested him right? Oh yea he was drunk too

As for other “minor” traffic violations if I pulled someone over for broken tail light I usually gave them a simple verbal warning to fix it. Unless they had something else going on

The only other time I’d usually cite someone for traffic violations would be because they did something to be at fault in an accident
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I hope you took the baton to that guy...... seriously
 
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