rick81721
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Hey Dave, something to shoot for!
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Gonna keep this going to chronicle retired cop life?
Looks like with lots more riding you are well on your way to the retirement freshman 15: it's the opposite of college - instead of gaining 15 lbs, you lose 15.
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Maybe we should merge our threads into one retirement blog.
are you going to follow @rick81721 lead by posting boring recaps with boring pictures that noone reads?
i liked the cop stories better.
I remember seeing Peter Noone singing at Steel Pier.Ar least Noone reads it
Maybe we should merge our threads into one retirement blog.
Everybody knows that the sidekick is always the real entertainer. Bob’s blog is probably hilarious...or the snake’s!are you going to follow @rick81721 lead by posting boring recaps with boring pictures that noone reads?
Yeah, my personal observations say the worst drivers in the greater Flemington area, drive school buses.An ex-coworker called for some advice on the paperwork end of this. If you think your kid's bus driver wouldn't drink on the job, you haven't lived in Hunterdon County!
P.S. No kids were on the bus. YET.
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CBS Sunday Morning (June 6) had a in-depth report on the state of law enforcement in the USA. I thought it was well done and insightful. Clearly, there is work to do. However, the black LAPD officer sums it up well: the police are forced to respond to a multitude of issues because there is no one else who will. And then those police are told they have failed when in actuality the failure is with the rest of government: unemployment, homelessness, lack of access for mental health services, the list goes on.
The first 20 minutes are the best; the rest is a little more fluffy and feel-good with the exception of the Bill Bratton piece.
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Police should not have to respond to every mental health call, overdose, or well being check.
Flip that story though. Police do not respond to some complaint about a mental health call, user shoots up neighborhood.
Who gets blamed for not responding?
Most mental health calls are people doing harm to themselves. Not a person with a gun threatening a neighborhood...those two calls are wildly different than what I was saying.
But you get my point I presume. The police are often in a lose-lose situation. Act and fail. Don't act and fail.
Honestly, the police need more funding. That money should go to quality training. The reality is the police do get called for all the things you mentioned. They need to be trained to handle it. Reflecting upon the incident that started the whole “defund the police” movement, that training needs to include how to relieve an officer that is about to or has already crossed a line. As @Norm has already alluded, sometimes not doing anything can be far more catastrophic than doing something.I think this is where the middle ground really lies. "Defund the Police" is not "abolish the police". Way different agendas. Police should not have to respond to every mental health call, overdose, or well being check.
Honestly, the police need more funding. That money should go to quality training. The reality is the police do get called for all the things you mentioned. They need to be trained to handle it. Reflecting upon the incident that started the whole “defund the police” movement, that training needs to include how to relieve an officer that is about to or has already crossed a line. As @Norm has already alluded, sometimes not doing anything can be far more catastrophic than doing something.