Saw the NJ police chief video and it was shocking to see a chief being that stupid in public with his officer. The chief is lucky the officer didn’t slam him and cuff him on the spot for DUI and assault on a peace officer. That is the one rule I live by, don’t care if its a Sheriff, Chief, or anyone else except my mother, father, wife, or kids, nobody touches me unless I allow it and especially in that manner. Trained for decades in the martial arts and the chief would have gotten the automatic reaction my body did and wouldn’t have liked it. The problem I have is the with pay part, he is the chief which means he is an at will employee of the city council or mayor one, he should have been packing his office up the next day after that video was shown to them. As for the Sgt, yes, as the next highest officer was promoted to chief hopefully and the promotions went up the line, he should have been one of those promoted.
The next article about the chief who stops at a homeless encampment with his wife in the car, he is stupid on so many levels it’s not funny. 32 yrs on the job, 5 yrs in custody as a deputy, 8 yrs on patrol as deputy/FTO, 6 yrs as a full time member of a 9 person tac/entry team, 5 yrs as a detective/lead detective in a detective unit charged with investigating anything and everything from theft from the wrong politically connected person to homicide, and the remainder of my career as a patrol sgt/FTO and the last couple was running three major court houses we were in charge of security on. The only time my wife ever rode in one of my vehicles, had numerous take home cars, marked, unmarked, heck on the tac team I drove a deuce and a half home on numerous occasions as we used it in operations all the time, was when I was tasked to drive in a parade or some celebration. My kid, who is now a deputy and has been for 8 yrs, never went on a ride along with me until he was 20 and decided he wanted to become a deputy and I couldn’t talk him out of it and his mother said yes. He got a crash course in the ugly side of law enforcement at that point riding with me two or three times a week to every nasty call I could find and as a patrol sgt I could go to anything and everything I wanted. To his credit, he didn’t shy away and is now a good law enforcement officer that I helped train in everything he would need to survive on the streets and the politics of law enforcement. Ok, back to the chief, driving fast away from a guy shooting at him, I don’t see him getting in trouble for this as our policy was that we weren’t allowed to place a ride along in a dangerous situation, no pursuits or anything close to a shootout between the chief and some homeless guy.
This article showcases the problem with modern law enforcement and their failure to understand how fast the world works now with the internet and social media. Agencies are used to just not giving information out till their investigation is 100% compete and in the old days that was fine, but not today. Today, unless you want a bunch of progressive cult nutcases tearing your town apart or depending on the situation, the nation, if there is relevant information, release it. This report, the kid didn’t die from trauma, what the hell does that mean, OD, suicide, was there signs of blunt force trauma to the body like (whatever pronoun) was beaten up or assaulted. Sorry the 6 week wait time for a drug screen which can be done in about 20 minutes or less, thats not gonna fly with the cop hating crowd who wants nothing more than to find an excuse, legitimate or not to go off on you. If you have the information, release it if its not going to impact the case, you have body worn camera footage or unit camera coverage, release what you can and show in real time what happened, period. Bad, take the lumps, good, get in front of the nut jobs.
Saw the NJ police chief video and it was shocking to see a chief being that stupid in public with his officer. The chief is lucky the officer didn’t slam him and cuff him on the spot for DUI and assault on a peace officer. That is the one rule I live by, don’t care if its a Sheriff, Chief, or anyone else except my mother, father, wife, or kids, nobody touches me unless I allow it and especially in that manner. Trained for decades in the martial arts and the chief would have gotten the automatic reaction my body did and wouldn’t have liked it. The problem I have is the with pay part, he is the chief which means he is an at will employee of the city council or mayor one, he should have been packing his office up the next day after that video was shown to them. As for the Sgt, yes, as the next highest officer was promoted to chief hopefully and the promotions went up the line, he should have been one of those promoted.
The next article about the chief who stops at a homeless encampment with his wife in the car, he is stupid on so many levels it’s not funny. 32 yrs on the job, 5 yrs in custody as a deputy, 8 yrs on patrol as deputy/FTO, 6 yrs as a full time member of a 9 person tac/entry team, 5 yrs as a detective/lead detective in a detective unit charged with investigating anything and everything from theft from the wrong politically connected person to homicide, and the remainder of my career as a patrol sgt/FTO and the last couple was running three major court houses we were in charge of security on. The only time my wife ever rode in one of my vehicles, had numerous take home cars, marked, unmarked, heck on the tac team I drove a deuce and a half home on numerous occasions as we used it in operations all the time, was when I was tasked to drive in a parade or some celebration. My kid, who is now a deputy and has been for 8 yrs, never went on a ride along with me until he was 20 and decided he wanted to become a deputy and I couldn’t talk him out of it and his mother said yes. He got a crash course in the ugly side of law enforcement at that point riding with me two or three times a week to every nasty call I could find and as a patrol sgt I could go to anything and everything I wanted. To his credit, he didn’t shy away and is now a good law enforcement officer that I helped train in everything he would need to survive on the streets and the politics of law enforcement. Ok, back to the chief, driving fast away from a guy shooting at him, I don’t see him getting in trouble for this as our policy was that we weren’t allowed to place a ride along in a dangerous situation, no pursuits or anything close to a shootout between the chief and some homeless guy.
This article showcases the problem with modern law enforcement and their failure to understand how fast the world works now with the internet and social media. Agencies are used to just not giving information out till their investigation is 100% compete and in the old days that was fine, but not today. Today, unless you want a bunch of progressive cult nutcases tearing your town apart or depending on the situation, the nation, if there is relevant information, release it. This report, the kid didn’t die from trauma, what the hell does that mean, OD, suicide, was there signs of blunt force trauma to the body like (whatever pronoun) was beaten up or assaulted. Sorry the 6 week wait time for a drug screen which can be done in about 20 minutes or less, thats not gonna fly with the cop hating crowd who wants nothing more than to find an excuse, legitimate or not to go off on you. If you have the information, release it if its not going to impact the case, you have body worn camera footage or unit camera coverage, release what you can and show in real time what happened, period. Bad, take the lumps, good, get in front of the nut jobs.