@bschapiroMD
Never once had a paratrooper refuse to wear a reserve. If I had allowed one to do so my soldiers would have looked at me as if I had lost my mind.
Hip throw-side control-full mount-takes back-handcuff. This is what a trained cop looks like; requires at least 2-3 hours a week on the mat. Tired of seeing the bullshit we too often see in LE force videos? Then invest in what you want to see.
Rotor hub of Super 61 at ASOM Museum was recovered from Mogadishu. My buddy CW2 Donovan Briley, the co-pilot was killed in the crash this day in 1993. Just trying to remember the good times. Vaya con Dios
For my fellow LEOs. Much is being made of Trump’s attending Officer Diller’s funeral. If he truly wanted to honor Officer Diller he should have done so quietly. I ask, in all the years Trump lived in NYC how many LEO funerals did he attend?
@erinhaust
My father was a young Choctaw kid who got himself drafted in WWII at 15. It never occurred to him that he shouldn’t sacrifice for others. He died in St Thomas hospital near you from Covid last June. Is getting a shot to help others too much to ask?
More evidence on value of techniques like meditation, yoga, breathing for raising parasympathetic nervous system response. Tactical breathing is designed to raise PNS during critical incident response.
Is it just me, or is it depressing to think that a significant factor in deciding who will be the President of the United States of America is the content of the cover of the National Enquirer? We’re not going to make it are we?
I got my BA in 79 and started graduate school in 2000. When I went to the campus library I walked in and couldn’t find the card catalog so I went to the desk and asked the librarian where I could find it. She just smiled and said, “it’s been a while, huh?”
6/ I got credit for another "don't do the right thing again." Social services workers should be doing many of the things cops now do. There is no shortage of good ideas, just people willing to do the work. Rant over.....
Once upon a time I was cool. The cool lifestyle has its costs: 50% cancer rate on that team. Bad luck perhaps but seems high for a bunch of fit guys who put the skins on and climbed a mountain in a telemark course.
1/ About that whole replace cops with social workers thing. One morning about 0230 I get a call from one of my officers. He's baby sitting three kids 3-7 yrs old in the precinct conference room. Another officer had arrested the mom's boyfriend for DUI and 3 counts of endangering.
We lost an officer to suicide. He was a good guy, good cop. LEOs are 54% more likely to die that way than other occupations. Policing is unhealthy. Before you can clean up the world you have to be able to clean up your bedroom.
@mikejason73
Former SF Medic on my team, 11C 82nd, went to med school, back in Army as surgeon, several tours in Baghdad ER, needed 1 year stability for Dr wife’s boards - manager said no-go - he’s a civilian surgeon now. We are our own worst enemies.
Just discovered my wife’s family home in Hampton, VA was a Sears mail order home. The framing lumber was rough cut and a 2X4 was actually 2X4. Original furnace was coal fired, wiring was single post tar paper wrapped copper wire. Still standing so well worth $938.
@MikePerryavatar
Classic example of why leaders have to know their subordinates. Often there is more to the story than what we see directly in front of us.
@DBarkhuff
@mikejason73
LEO’s, who we expect to make those entries in schools receive far less training and it would be nearly impossible to train 3.5M teachers to even that rudimentary level. Arming teachers is a ridiculous idea.
A thread about government and policing. Police departments don’t operate in isolation. They are part of government and if you have a bad PD it’s been my experience that you also have a bad government. The plumber’s rule applies (shit roles downhill). /1
@randymot4
Does the Doha agreement ring a bell? You expect the guy who signed the Afghanistan withdrawal order written by his buttboy McEntee to solve the Ukraine situation? The best predictor of future performance is past performance.
@cpt_blondie
Don’t reserve your derision for just the people there at the scene. This was an outcome of failed governance in Uvalde specifically and Texas writ large. They’ll be happy to throw some cops under the bus in order to escape any responsibility for that failure.
@docMJP
“Without legal remedy” is a fancy way to say the election processes and results are lawful. You propose ignoring the will of the people in a lawful election. Not surprising.
@Snakeeater36
Keep in mind, almost none of America’s 800K+ LEOs get the benefit of this kind of training. Their leaders have failed them. It’s telling that today’s best performance came from someone who had the benefit of that kind of training.
5/ Officer takes kids to CPS office and stays with CPS worker till remainder of staff get there at 0800. Two days later email blast from Chief of Police to entire PD: Don't call SS Director at home. Accomplishments: Mom's boyfriend convicted all counts, CPS worker did her job,
@jaynordlinger
@steven_metz
Maybe it has something to do with conservatives no longer routinely serving their nation. Conservatism today has adopted the central ethos of self interest.
4/ A few weeks earlier I had been at a meeting and the Social Services Director made a presentation. He gave out his home phone and said if anyone wasn't satisfied with something at SS to call him. So I did. He called me back in about 10 minutes and said CPS worker will be out.
@mikenelson586
The long standing doctrine is to make immediate entry and move to and engage the shooter. That’s what VBPD did with the active shooter at the Municipal Center Anything less is a failure. I’m concerned too about how easily he was able to enter. Physical security is important too.
3/ Officer calls me and I have CPS worker call me. I tell her I need her to come out and take custody of kids. If she's concerned about her safety at CPS office I'll have officer stay there but police precinct isn't place to keep kids for 5-6 hours. She refuses and hangs up.
All this talk about how animals are routinely treated on the farm reminds me of my polygraph. One of the questions was had I ever had sex with an animal. When I responded no the examiner said, “city boy huh?”
@justapedn_cob
I recall standing on the boardwalk with a friend one day and he pointed to the Atlantic Ocean and said, “we can see a lot of water out there, and that’s just what’s on top.”
SEAL’s out there, anyone know if NSW is following long term health trends? A buddy who is a Dev Gru plank holder has been hit hard with Alzheimer’s. I’m thinking TBI/CTE from blast exposure and diving on gas has got to contribute or could mimic natural disease. This really sucks.
2/ Mom is a sailor out to see with no relatives in the area and no way to contact her. Officer has on call Child Protective Services (CPS) worker call him about situation. CPS worker wants officer to baby sit kids till CPS office opens at 0800 and bring them there.
@nunc_loquor
@noclador
@OlafScholz
I live close to several military installations in the US that I’m sure are targeted by several Russian 800kt warheads. Yeah, I understand. Give the Ukrainians the keys to your warehouses and ask them to turn off the lights when they’re through shopping.
@PJMatt
Maintaining standards for selection in no way relieves anyone of responsibility for the health and welfare of their fellow service members, be they strong or weak.
@facloungepop
@w_katz1
Police Unions are an industrial era paradigm. They need to change but likely won’t as long a local governments are unwilling to pay the costs of professionalizing policing. We’ve yet to implement many of the changes called for in the President’s Commission (Lyndon Johnson).
One of our retired members keeps up an Excel spreadsheet of PD members who have passed away. I guess he’s bored. Anyway, since 2000 the average age at death for our members has been 68. Ten years potential life lost. Policing isn’t healthy.
@phil_luttazi
@MalcolmNance
That and a civil case against the HOA. They were so hip on the private property aspect so let the property owner bear some of the consequences.
@RogerSullivanNO
@KevinMKruse
McConnell is smart. More likely he wants to keep exit ramps open in case it implodes on Trump. He’ll drive the bus over Trump if he thinks that’s necessary to keep his majority.
@WIRED
@chucko24
My 11 year old Grandson plays Fortnite, ran a 6:30 mile a few weeks ago, has a bag full of ribbons from swim team, hits the gym twice a week with me, 1st place in his first triathlon at age 7 - Fortnite’s not the problem - uninvolved parents are the problem