Sgt Esqueda is a good cop (unless his record proves otherwise) and like all good cops he was persecuted for not being a bastard.
Its pretty simple
Its pretty simple
WTF Bad boys, Bad boys, whatcha gonna do
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Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
Maybe you haven't needed them, but is it leading to advances in certain types of crime? ?Is it easier to shoplift with social distancing. Easier to look like you only had a fleeting moment of contact with someone - in the past it was a quick drug pass, is it now people just lurching away from each other? Certainly crime is finding new avenues within this new paradigm. idk.
Hey, someone has to play the devil's advocate - he had cash.
I didn't even bother to register the truck last year. Never even got pulled over let alone ticketed. Saved myself a cool $78.50 there.
Speed traps mostly gone. Traffic in the mornings runs a good 80mph or so. Means I get to sleep a few more minutes so there's time in my pocket.
Even got to exact a little vigilante justice on a couple petty thieves a time or two. I guess they failed to consider that whole lack of police presence thing works both ways. Suffice it to say the area has been trouble free ever since.
So yeah, they're still here, handling more serious crime, as they should be. We do need some cops but no they don't need to be up everybody's ass over every stupid little thing. Could probably cut the department by 1/3 and still handle real crime.
I think so too at least to some degree. Doubt I could find the same article again but was talking about seeing the effects of it in things like office space/commercial real estate, etc. Companies looking at downsizing physical footprint requirements.
Example: you could run 75 or 100 employees in the office space that used to support 50 by having them come in, say 2 days a week and working from home the other 3.
Some things still work better in person but they don't all have to be there all the time.
The people like it better and the companies can cut some overhead.
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
This will be happening.
There will be a glut of cheap commercial space in the next 2-3 years as leases expire.
Good job Newark. Not a single shot fired by an officer in 2020 due to a de-escalation training program instantiated in 2018
Newark police: No officer fired a single shot in 2020, thanks to de-escalation program
Newark police and city officials say a de-escalation training program is working, especially in a year faced with challenges.
newjersey.news12.com
Valve1138
I like the AB in the GB
You know, seems when I worked from home before I had some assholes come onto my property about once a year. Like they'd pull up, get out and kinda look about (yeas I have cameras). Or come to the door and have some BS reason for being there. None of that shit the last 11 months. More people at home has got to be putting a dent in daytime breakins.
Police presence could definitely be reduced in some areas. Almost our entire country uses the sherrif's dept rather than have their own force. It sometimes feels like all they do in the sticks is write tickets,. Versus the more serious workload in the more urban areas. mmmmmm, I love when traffic is rocking 80, 90+ and a cop couldn't jump into that if they wanted to.
I'd like to call out a good police interaction. Had a delivery at my house the other day, delivery dude was just steaming mad for some reason and when he left he rammed the pallet he had just dropped off with the box truck, then smashed my mailbox and drove off the road like 4 times crushing my drainage culvert. Then sped away. So technically a "property damage hit and run", but realistically largely a civil matter.
Need a police report for insurance and the claim against shipping company etc, so i file an online report never expecting (or needing to hear back) and i get a call and an email, and a follow up email less than 12 hours later from an officer who has actually done work already dug up the tag, identified the company, and is asking for additional information so he can send an officer out to find the truck and gather evidence of the damage......
I really appreciate it officer... but i just needed a case # to give to the insurance.
Need a police report for insurance and the claim against shipping company etc, so i file an online report never expecting (or needing to hear back) and i get a call and an email, and a follow up email less than 12 hours later from an officer who has actually done work already dug up the tag, identified the company, and is asking for additional information so he can send an officer out to find the truck and gather evidence of the damage......
I really appreciate it officer... but i just needed a case # to give to the insurance.
Oh look, cops killed another dude the exact same way George Floyd died
amp.cnn.com
Man dies after police kneel on his neck for nearly 5 minutes, family says in wrongful death claim
A 30-year-old Northern California man undergoing a mental health episode died days after police officers kneeled on the back of his neck for nearly five minutes to subdue him, lawyers for his family said.
amp.cnn.com
Also, the Aurora special investigation found that the cops that killed Elijah McCain had no justification to even stop him, no less assault him and then kill him.
Thats the 140lb kid they said was a violent threat to 3 trained police officers for walking home with his iced tea. So they attacked him while he begged for his life, knocked him unconscious, and then injected him with a fatal dose of ketamine while he was unconscious.
Thats the 140lb kid they said was a violent threat to 3 trained police officers for walking home with his iced tea. So they attacked him while he begged for his life, knocked him unconscious, and then injected him with a fatal dose of ketamine while he was unconscious.
amazingly, home depot paid out for this. Full payment for the item the dude rammed, the mailbox, and the culvert replacement.
I suppose the video of the dude ramming shit with his box truck probably made them not argue too hard.
