Oooo, I like their handy tips:
Using stuffed animals to camouflage your surveillance operation
the picture that I got in my head:
This one sounds a bit more menacing:
Yet another use for duct tape on patrol Submitted by: Edward Warner NYPD, New York During my 25-year career I used to carry a long strip of duct tape wrapped around a tiny mag-lite flashlight. Whenever I had to go into an apartment building or multi-family dwelling ...
Right ⌠and âthemâs not bad oddsâ especially if theyâre not likely to be stop-and-frisked.
Oh, come on. If they donât want to get pulled over so much, they should just stop being so brown.
How in the world is Stop and Frisk still a thing? This should have been clobbered ages ago by a fourth amendment appeal. Are they really that good at only targeting people who canât afford lawyers?
When I first heard about this happening in NY, my thought was âYet another stupid law that sounds great to some paranoid old white voters in a campaign ad, but is going to be overturned by the courts in 6-12 monthsâ, yet here we are in 2014 and itâs still happening. Seriously, WTF.
So, yeah. Sorry Sam, I canât like your post, even though I do like the sentiment you bring to it 
Youâd get plenty of coke busts.
Nope, the NYPD just doesnât have any accountability for the payouts, so nothing changes:
The NYPDâs increased use of stop and frisk in the last few years has corresponded with costly litigation contesting the practice and also a significant rise in the number of tort claims filed against the Department, as recorded by the Comptroller. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of claims against the NYPD grew by 52%. Claims against the NYPD reached a historic high in 2012, with 9,570 claims filed. In 2009, for the first time in thirty years, the NYPD became the city agency with the highest dollar amount of settlements and judgments paid out, surpassing the Health and Hospitals Corporation (âHHCâ). The Comptroller recommends that the NYPD and other city agencies at similarly high risk for claims be held financially accountable, as HHC now is. Currently, no money is debited from the NYPDâs budget to account for settlements and judgments against it.
Kudos to Christopher E Smith for posting this as a white man. Not only is he drawing attention to a problem that most white people turn away from as someone elseâs problem, but white people are, sadly, more likely to listen to him on this racist problem than they are to a writer or other people who arenât white.
no non-cops are allowed to post
Wow⌠I was thinking non-cop trollies might explain a lot of the insanity there. If thatâs true, that really is disturbing. How do they verify that itâs real cops?
How? Theyâre the police! They just use the bro-net to verify.
ring ring, ring ring
âHey Bill, itâs Jerry here ⌠Yeah, Marthaâs fine thanks. Howâre the kids? ⌠Good. Say, listen. We got a PoliceOne request here from some guy named Joe Smith, says his number is Q123456. Can you do an âinformalâ search on your departmentâs HR system to confirm this guy exists? ⌠He does? ⌠Oh, you know him? Is he a good sort, or one of those guys? ⌠Good sort? Excellent. Iâll send him an approval email now. Cheers Bill ⌠you have a good day too.â
Your tax dollars at work.
The difference between NYC and the Deep South is that in NYC they have to make Stop&Frisk an official program, as opposed to the South where they can just stop people and frisk them.
Cory: Iâm going to quibble with your aside: you may have witnessed this, or been part of it, but saying you experienced it yourself implies that you were singled out for being brown.
by way of analogy, having SSSS on your boarding pass at the airport is a much different feeling than just traveling with someone who has that kind of pass.
Except that the âthisâ Coryâs referring to having experienced isnât âbeing singled out for being brownâ but âobserving the difference in the amount of police attention his crossing the border generates while alone or traveling with other whites, compared to when traveling with people of color,â an experience he just finished talking about Smith relating.
I used to regularly read P.C. David Copperfield of Wasting Police Timeâs blog. He provided a laconic, and usually bleak but sensible view of the UK police, but the comments from other coppers were unreal. Them and tweedy, Blimpish British gun-nuts just itching to stop some murdering foreign knicker-sniffer with his fowling-piece.
I read that one too. And Nightjack, and PC Bloggs.
I remember this, too.
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