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  1. sanjuro

    Taser did not kill him....

    ... the fall did:
  2. AngryMetalsmith

    Hey Manimal...

    ...has this ever happened to you ? http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20080924/48d9bb40_3ca6_1552620080924-1996176523 Oh the horrors cops have to face in the line of duty.
  3. manimal

    Why it's a bad idea to hide from the police in your house....

    :D So this dude has some pretty serious felony warrants from an adjacent city. One of our guys sees bad guy in his friends yard and when bad guy sees cop he runs into friend's house. more cops arrive (as we tend to do ;) ) and cover every exit to the residence. the homeowner comes out...
  4. Sandwich

    oh awesome...thanks NYS po-lice

    So yesterday afternoon, while driving home from a weekend at plattekill, I stopped to check out a classic audi I was interested in buying. The car has a performance exhaust that's loud but not obnoxious... I look the car over, and we go for a test ride up the country road about a mile- mile...
  5. manimal

    Cops and the media

    A fellow officer was involved in a shooting last night during a robbery. 1 bad guy dead and the other 2 who were involved are in custody. It happened around 945pm last night and I was called to the scene (swat activation) for crowd control at about 1 am. I get home this morning around 930...
  6. geargrrl

    Maybe this is my stolen bike on CL, now what do I do?

    I've been watching CL religiously for my son's stolen haro. An exact same bike appeared today, listed in a city that is across state lines. I have the serial number and a police report number. Naturally, our city cops don't answer the phone on a Sunday. We went ahead and made a plan to...
  7. X3pilot

    Cops get the bird..

    Only in NJ, where no body is as dumb as all of them.. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-09-05_D930OSK80&show_article=1&cat=breaking
  8. manimal

    Funny chase/takedown from the bike yesterday...

    **for the noobs to RM...i'm a cop in the projects and i ride a bike a good part of the time** so i'm cruising through one of my most problematic projects yesterday evening about 730pm when my partner and i see two guys walking beside a residential building. nothing was very suspicious about...
  9. Silver

    More police news: Shoot a Labrador Retriever as he's running AWAY? Why not?

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/30/AR2008073003299.html While I'm very sad the dogs are dead, I'm not so happy with the attitude of the mayor. "My government blew through my doors and killed my dogs," Calvo said. "They thought we were drug dealers, and we were...
  10. BrooklynMachine

    Cop Takes Down Cyclist...on video.

    From the NYT: "In a criminal complaint against Mr. Long, the officer, identified in the court documents as Patrick Pogan of the Midtown South precinct, says that the cyclist rode straight into him. But the video, posted on YouTube and on the blog Gothamist.com, shows the officer lunging toward...
  11. nauc

    marijuana prohibition leads to murder of 23 year old

    http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5442615&page=1 lets see.... cigs kill 300,000+ americans every year obesity kills around 300,000 americans every year alcohol kills around 80,000 americans every year weed still hasnt killed anyone why is weed illegal again? *rollseyes*
  12. M

    Random Shootings....

    So theres been four random shooting on the President George Bush Turnpike (east bound side - richardson, tx, west bound side - Plano, TX) Needless to say, this is my way to and from my internship at the PD, i heard one call a couple weeks ago, but didnt realize until now there was more than one...
  13. manimal

    Tragic....

    The NC highway patrol lost a trooper on June 17, 2008. He stopped a truck towing a trailer that was swerving all over the road. A struggle ensued and the trooper, David Shawn Blanton Jr., was fatally shot. I got an email at work today about the trooper's infant child. The baby was born...
  14. Wingnut

    Speeders to pay for cops' gas, too....

    Hmmm... http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080618/1a_bottomstrip18_dom.art.htm
  15. JohnE

    Rascist?

    So my co-worker accuses me of being rascist because- 1. I didnt watch the basketball game last night. Or any basketball game, ever (Other than my kids games. I just dont care for it.). 2. I watch and play hockey. After he accuses me of being a Klansman and derides hockey some more, I...
  16. manimal

    Why are people so resistant to change?

    In my unit at work we generate a lot of paperwork, more than the average patrol unit. We have to do our normal paperless reports on our laptops but, because, my unit is somewhat subcontracted by HUD, I have to make paper copies of everything we do in the housing communities (arrests, lease...
  17. RenegadeRick

    So Tasers do carry risk of death...

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYJitFRQLpZk&refer=us Danggit! I thought Tasers were non-lethal. :bonk:
  18. F

    'Spandex causes people to lose sense of humor

    Larimer sheriff: 'Spandex causes people to lose sense of humor' Alderden says responses back stance on cyclists, 2 to 1 Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden is standing by a column he penned last week in which he singled out Boulder cyclists as leading to an increasing number of...
  19. sanjuro

    How to tell you are in a bad neighborhood?

    I lock my bike in front of a police station in the Tenderloin, and I ask a departing cop if my bike is safe here. He says, "Not in this neighborhood". I responded, "good thing I brought two locks."
  20. T

    Man did 2 cops just F with me

    I was riding home from a night ride (in town) and didn't come to a complete stop at a blind stop sign (I was probably going about 5-10MPH) as I come around the corner I see a cop car approaching the intersection. I figure Oh well, I have my lights and my helmet on, I pretty much stopped at that...