Officer Friendly.

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Actually, Naps, I think I am stupid enough to not get your point.

This thread is about bad cops. Cops who violate the trust of the public, who violate the honor and integrity of the uniform. Cops who reflect badly upon the profession, and upon good cops like I would presume you were. I would think that you'd be in favor of outing the bad apples, of letting the bad apples know that their shit will be called, that they can't besmirch their office and come out unscathed.

I'd never claim that all cops are bad; and I'd never claim that I could do the job. I'd never claim to be a badass; I'd never claim to be macho; I'm definitely not a tough guy. But what I am or am not does not invalidate my pointing out a shitty cop who has abused his authority and strength over somebody who was weaker. That behavior is appalling to me, in any individual - true strength lies not in the ability to beat the shit out of somebody weaker than you, but to help those who are weaker to find their strength. It's especially intolerable coming from somebody (a cop in uniform) who I was raised to trust and respect.

Sorry if I'm too rock-fucking-stupid to get your point.

[Blaidd Drwg]

you're point is interesting just incredibly ill placed.

there are heros and fuckoffs in every profession..anyone with a brain is sick and fucking tired of propaganda about "good apples" while the balance of the shitbirds hide behind thier chickenshit unions, drug war spending binges and punchy shitheads who are held to a lower standard than the people they serve.

So yeah..Good for you that you were able to help people. And?

Wait, I thought the 9+ pages of this thread were dedicated to shitty cops posted by men with half their balls. You're now telling me this is about unions?

In truth, I had not thought about my nights on patrol in ages, so I thank you for the trip down memory lane. I also know that my experiences are very much NOT typical for most cops. Being in a bonafide NYPD "A House" and working midnight to 8's put me where I ended up.

With that said, it's got to suck for shaved headed, goatee wearing, juice 1x per month in the ass motherfuckers to know no matter how badass you are, the average Officer Friendly you bump into at Hardee's has proven to the world that he's much more macho than you are by way of what he faces or what he's prepared to face, on a moment's notice. Give a little credit to the good guys....the one's on your thread are not the majority.

Jesus Nappy, for a badd ass motherfucker you are fairly quick tempered and extremely insecure. Your bleeting about the Da Job has it's own multi-channel propaganda machine on it's side, You really don't need to put in any work here. In addition to your sloppy assumptions about shite east coast food purveyors, you could not be wronger in you swipes at me and others on this thread I do not think I'm macho, nor am I a bad ass. Least of all is my concern if I meet your standards for manliness, the shrillness of your tone tells me you don't meet them either.

I am genuinely respectful of the atypical experience as a LEO you have lived. However I have ZERO% respect for the costume you wore doing it.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Nappy, you have a point-- there are good eggs, but there are rarely even squads full of them. How many shit birds and malingerers were there on your shift? And is it possible, after how long out of uniform, that you're romanticizing it a bit? You were only a cop for 3 years. Why? Why not 20 with a nice pension from the NYPD? Why isn't Shape a cop any longer? (We all know Ed got out when he ran through dispatchers and trannies to sully).

I sit on the other side of radio knowing that with a channel full of 60 officers, there are maybe 15 I can count on NOT to dick up a serious call. Thursday night I had half a squad decide they weren't going to investigate an armed robbery because the victim was too scared to stay on scene. An hour later after the watch commander sent them all back out, THEN they started looking for the guy. Out of the remaining 45, there are at least 5 I'd be scared to have pull *me* over. The rest of them I know I am probably going to have hand feed to get them to get out of their fucking patrol cars to answer the call because otherwise I know that the complainant is going to call back until they get some level of service.

Now, I don't know if the problem in some parts of the country is training and selection of potential officers or not but the majority of the ones I do see on the street get some kind of power complex after a few years. Yeah, the job grinds on you. It grinds on me too. You brought back an infant in a speeding cruiser; I've sat on the phone consoling parents when help didn't arrive in time. I've sat on the phone with women hiding in the closet so they don't get beaten anymore waiting for officers to get there. And yeah, when they get there is she going to go all "don't arrest my baby, I can't live without him" -- probably, since it's part of the abuse cycle. But more and more what I see out of cops towards the general public we both serve is contempt. It's a problem.

Officer.com has a whole section dedicated to internal affairs shit for a reason.

Oh, and I don't think BD does Hardee's -- probably some granoly crunchy West Coast shit like In and Out.

You're saying only 25% of the cops you deal with are worth a fuck, correct? How sad if even half true.

I worked with great people. Black, Hispanic, Chinese and white....all of them were invited to my wedding and most showed. All checks cleared. There were a couple I cringed at working with, both female and both had asses wide enough to push down their side of the car. I guess I can say they sucked because they were physically unable to perform their job.

FWIW, it was never my intention to be a career cop. I wanted US Marshals but there was a hiring freeze back then. You see, I've never set foot in a college classroom so my 4 years in the USMC with 3 years in the NYPD made me equal on paper to some schmuck with a BA degree. When it was clear that being a fed was unlikely, I left and got into the dog biz. I have been a technical recruiter for about 9 years now and make about 4x more than I did as a cop, so I'll pass on the sexy pension. ;-)

I could not imagine, on my worst day, not showing up to a crime in progress. I can't think of a single person I worked with who would not show, either. I am not romanticizing any of that.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Actually, Naps, I think I am stupid enough to not get your point.

This thread is about bad cops. Cops who violate the trust of the public, who violate the honor and integrity of the uniform. Cops who reflect badly upon the profession, and upon good cops like I would presume you were. I would think that you'd be in favor of outing the bad apples, of letting the bad apples know that their shit will be called, that they can't besmirch their office and come out unscathed.

I'd never claim that all cops are bad; and I'd never claim that I could do the job. I'd never claim to be a badass; I'd never claim to be macho; I'm definitely not a tough guy. But what I am or am not does not invalidate my pointing out a shitty cop who has abused his authority and strength over somebody who was weaker. That behavior is appalling to me, in any individual - true strength lies not in the ability to beat the shit out of somebody weaker than you, but to help those who are weaker to find their strength. It's especially intolerable coming from somebody (a cop in uniform) who I was raised to trust and respect.

Sorry if I'm too rock-fucking-stupid to get your point.

Um, I thought I made it abundantly loud and clear that I too, was ok with the spirit of this thread overall. My heartburn, I guess, lies with most of this thread's contributors seem to think the shitbags are the norm in law enforcement. I merely decided to join-in to offer the other perspective.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

you're point is interesting just incredibly ill placed.

there are heros and fuckoffs in every profession..anyone with a brain is sick and fucking tired of propaganda about "good apples" while the balance of the shitbirds hide behind thier chickenshit unions, drug war spending binges and punchy shitheads who are held to a lower standard than the people they serve.

So yeah..Good for you that you were able to help people. And?

Wait, I thought the 9+ pages of this thread were dedicated to shitty cops posted by men with half their balls. You're now telling me this is about unions?

In truth, I had not thought about my nights on patrol in ages, so I thank you for the trip down memory lane. I also know that my experiences are very much NOT typical for most cops. Being in a bonafide NYPD "A House" and working midnight to 8's put me where I ended up.

With that said, it's got to suck for shaved headed, goatee wearing, juice 1x per month in the ass motherfuckers to know no matter how badass you are, the average Officer Friendly you bump into at Hardee's has proven to the world that he's much more macho than you are by way of what he faces or what he's prepared to face, on a moment's notice. Give a little credit to the good guys....the one's on your thread are not the majority.

Jesus Nappy, for a badd ass motherfucker you are fairly quick tempered and extremely insecure. Your bleeting about the Da Job has it's own multi-channel propaganda machine on it's side, You really don't need to put in any work here. In addition to your sloppy assumptions about shite east coast food purveyors, you could not be wronger in you swipes at me and others on this thread I do not think I'm macho, nor am I a bad ass. Least of all is my concern if I meet your standards for manliness, the shrillness of your tone tells me you don't meet them either.

I am genuinely respectful of the atypical experience as a LEO you have lived. However I have ZERO% respect for the costume you wore doing it.

LOL at quick tempered and your comments about my 'tone'. How many months has this thread existed?

Wait....you really are bald headed and sport the goatee? That was a guess. Bald dudes with goatees tend to be cool as are their Harley's, I was just shuckin' with you. It's the fucking bushy mustache types who are d-bags.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter One:

-Revived a non-breathing infant while travelling at a very high rate of speed in a radio car (cruiser)

So it was start of tour....around midnight, when this lady in her 50's, wearing a house dress and clearly upset, jumped in front of our car with a baby in her arms. We were thankfully doing 'patrol speed' which is under 15 MPH. I'm the recorder (the guy in the passenger seat). I jump out of the car, force the woman into the back seat of the car and force the baby from her arms (she is the grandma and hysterical). To my God's honest recollection, we were over 90MPH zipping toward Metropolitan Hospital. I was doing CPR on the baby in the passenger seat and when running from the ER parking lot into the ER when he started breathing again in my arms. ER personal and ghetto cops get along well, tend to happy hour together, ect....they busted my balls for being so pale as I was scared shitless.

Officer Friendly don't care about no kids.

*Edit* the cop who was driving was also a rookie and a former musician who gigged with Green Day and the Meat Puppets, both.*

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter Two:

-Rescued people from a burning building

When you graduate NYPD's Police Academy, you're assigned to a field training unit for six months, almost always in one's assigned precinct. Mine was the 23PCT in East Harlem.

So I was driving the training sergeant on duty and had another rookie cop in the back seat of the car. We are in the vicinity of 106st and 3rd Ave and we see smoke bellowing from an apartment complex. We rush in, feeling the heat and dealing with heavy smoke and bang on doors like you wouldn't believe. We usher out a half dozen or so people.

FDNY rolls-up on the scene and their LT gives us an ass chewing of galactic proportions for running into a burning building with the intent of perhaps saving a life or three. He was more right than wrong, thinking back, but Officer Friendly and his pal's hearts were in the right place.

*Edit* This was my very first line of duty injury--smoke inhalation.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter Three:

-Wrestled away a loaded .45 from someone trying to shoot another cop

Man, this is a long one, so I'll do my best to keep it brief.

Myself and another rookie cop find ourselves in a foot pursuit of two males with guns, which ends-up in the lobby of one of Harlem's many housing projects. A huge party is going on in the hall of the building (literally, a big hall for gatherings)....a Christmas party complete with tons of kids. You see, in Harlem, it's not unusual for kids to be up past midnight. The second guy got away (temporarily), but the first guy leveled his .45 on my partner. I managed the gun from him. Needless to say, there was some terror in the hall, but Officer Friendly and his partner ensured no shots were fired that night. We both had excessive force allegations leveled against us and NYC's most lefty CCRB investigators practically laughed it away.

Officer Friendly thinks about the people around him, even when a gun is pointed at him.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter Four:

-Chased and caught a guy with a loaded MAC11

God, I wish this war story was sexier. There I was, on a foot post on 106st & Park Ave. I see this jig with a sub-machine gun hauling ass toward Madison Avenue. Some white dude on foot in plain clothes is chasing him and also has a gun in hand, not that I was racially profiling or anything, but I kinda assumed the brotha was the bad guy. I/we caught him just short of 106 and Madison. It was the ATF who was chasing him. They cuffed him, threw him in a white van and were gone before my patrol supervisor arrived to 'scratch my book' (that's Officer Friendly speak for the boss verifying you did something in the name of the law).

Sometimes, Officer Friendly just turns a street corner and sees a dude with a machine gun.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter Five:

-Have rolled-up on scene to 14 homicides (14, no typo)

I cannot detail all of these, the number 14 sticks in my head though.

Here's one quick story:

Me and Green Day/Meat Puppets cop are riding together again when we get a 'shots fired' call. Shot Fired is an very common call in Harlem, but Officer Friendly is never nonchalant about it. We just so happen to be 3 quick blocks away. He is driving (again). Any of you who have driven down Lexington Avenue and 101st in Manhattan can verify that hill rivals the streets of San Francisco. Meat Puppet literally sends us airborne he's got the pedal hammered that hard on 'da Caprice.

We roll-up to 100 or 99 and Lex (can't recall which). There is not less than 100 people on scene and one dead motherfucker on the ground, twitching and bleeding out. Our Lieutenant arrives seconds after us (we were first on scene). I ask "Lou (Lou is what we called the LT in the olden days), what the fuck is that shit coming out of his mouth?" The Lou replies, "that's his brains, Jimmy." Money was shot six times with the last round hitting him in the roof of his mouth. His brains fell out right of his mouth before my eyes.

Fuck, sometimes Officer Friendly looses his appetite for good reason.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Officer Friendly, Chapter Six:

-Have caught one of the above murderers

See chapter 5 and fast forward about a year. Back in the 90's the world's most dangerous profession was NYC cab driver. The city installed lights on the front and back of all cabs....legit or not. Any driver fearing for his well-being could discreetly activate the light, which gave cops automatic reason to pull them over.

So there we were one night, chasing some people through the projects who attempted to rob a driver. Now your Wonder Bread White Ass has got to understand that being collared is really no big deal in the grand scheme of things in NYC in order for this story to make any sense. Well, I and another collar homie and he starts puking he is so freaked out. Smelling a rat, someone more senior than I called our RIP team (robbery detectives). They got it out of money that he was the dude who shot and killed the guy in chapter 5. His reason? Homie sold him a Pit Bull that wouldn't fight.

Officer Friendly did not sign up to be the dog whisperer.

[Herv100]

Holy Fuck, this is worse than when Gene comes into a good thread and ruins it

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Holy Fuck, this is worse than when Gene comes into a good thread and ruins it

Officer Friendly has a means to an end.

[Holland Oates]

Just like a cop to ruin the party.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

Just like a cop to ruin the party.

Pigs...every last one of them.

[Holland Oates]

Pigs...every last one of them.

I prefer Filthy Disgusting Pork Product.

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How much did you bench?

[Blaidd Drwg]

No goatee, hair is clipped and I'm not a PL by any stretch. But your whining tells me everything I need to know about how genuine your concern is slappy pig.

[The Crawdaddy]

Pigs...every last one of them.

I prefer Filthy Disgusting Pork Product.

I prefer BACON!!!

[Holland Oates]

Pigs...every last one of them.

I prefer Filthy Disgusting Pork Product.

I prefer BACON!!!

My gamertag when I was a cop was pigbastard.

[Blaidd Drwg]

Officer Friendly urges you all to enjoy your retirement.

The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police is looking to strip a retired captain of his union membership, because he had sex with a 14-year-old girl illegally raided immigrant-owned bodegas across the city, then stole from and threatened their owners illegally arrested and nearly killed a man for legally carrying a firearm beat his girlfriend and threatened to “stamp” her “heart out” sexually assaulted three women during drug raids . . . hmm. It appears to have been none of those.

So what could he possibly have done?

The retired Philadelphia police captain committed an act so heinous, so unforgivable in the eyes of the FOP, that union president John McNesby filed a rare grievance that could result in Lewis being permanently expelled from the FOP and stripped of union benefits such as life insurance and free legal assistance.

“It’s quite unusual. We had to dig into the books to see what we could do and couldn’t do,” said FOP pension director Henry Vannelli, who made the motion to refer Lewis’ case to the union’s grievance committee. “We don’t want that guy around.”

Lewis’ inexcusable offense?

He wore his police uniform to the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park last year. He wanted to show the world that the economic-equality movement is not just the pink-haired potheads and scatterbrained anarchists that some media outlets tend to focus on. He makes sure to tell people he’s retired.

“They thought everyone thought of them as dirty hippies. I made their concerns legitimate to the masses,” said Lewis, 60, explaining how he was greeted by the protesters last year. “Their gratitude was overwhelming.”

Lewis, who wore his police uniform to Southwest Philadelphia’s Elmwood Park on Tuesday for a May Day rally with Occupy Philly and labor leaders, became somewhat of an Occupy celebrity, appearing in Time magazine and on cable news.

All of which continues to infuriate McNesby and other FOP officials. The grievance committee could complete its Lewis investigation by the end of the month.

“He’s not respecting the uniform,” McNesby said. “People died for that uniform. It’s not Halloween.”

Not only should Lewis be punished by the union, McNesby said, he “absolutely” should be locked up every time he sets foot in Philly with his uniform on.

Only problem: Nothing Lewis did was illegal.

Also, here’s a bonus, fun glimpse at police union logic:

But if it’s all about the uniform, why doesn’t the FOP take issue with Philadelphia lawyer Jimmy Binns? The wannabe cop has been photographed with a Glock on his hip in a look-alike Philadelphia police uniform on a Harley-Davidson that says “police” on the side and is nearly identical to those ridden by city cops.

Simple, the FOP’s Vannelli says: “Binns is a very good friend of police.”

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

How much did you bench?

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

No goatee, hair is clipped and I'm not a PL by any stretch. But your whining tells me everything I need to know about how genuine your concern is slappy pig.

I am not whining nor is their an iota of hysteria in my 'tone'. Your 'go run off with Johno and start a hero thread' was a little bitchy, though.

Your thread was 9 pages of useless 'entertainment' for haters (Herv liked it, that should tell you all you need to know, he thinks "The X Files" is real). It was non-informative and otherwise served no valuable purpose. Normally, I'd take zero issue with that on IGx, but we're not talking crossift here, we are talking about the people sworn to uphold the law and hold our collective public trust. Don't fret, Officer Friendly is here to make things right....much to your surprise, I am sure, we will probably agree more than not.

[Blaidd Drwg]

No goatee, hair is clipped and I'm not a PL by any stretch. But your whining tells me everything I need to know about how genuine your concern is slappy pig.

I am not whining nor is their an iota of hysteria in my 'tone'. Your 'go run off with Johno and start a hero thread' was a little bitchy, though.

Your thread was 9 pages of useless 'entertainment' for haters (Herv liked it, that should tell you all you need to know, he thinks "The X Files" is real). It was non-informative and otherwise served no valuable purpose. Normally, I'd take zero issue with that on IGx, but we're not talking crossift here, we are talking about the people sworn to uphold the law and hold our collective public trust. Don't fret, Officer Friendly is here to make things right....much to your surprise, I am sure, we will probably agree more than not.

It serves a valuable purpose..The purpose is wake the fuck up, memorize the words not without a lawyer and NEVER EVER trust a cop. It's not required to hate the police but do not for one instant assume they have you interests in mind any more than does the IRS or TSA.

[Blaidd Drwg]

http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bustca ... 100630.pdf

Required reading for all children.