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Alea iacta est |
The “lol” thread | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Not all cops. "These" cops misusing their privileges. | |||
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It’s a bad practice unless the officers are legitimately on call for some kind of actual duty related activity such as SWAT or other specialized skill. Anything else puts officers in a bad light and rightly so. Personally, I have no interest in being identifiable in any way when I’m off duty. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Only dead fish go with the flow  |
These guys are amateurs. The NYPD towed away cars that were legally parked so that off duty police could park their personal cars near the facility for their flag football game  LINK | |||
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Irksome Whirling Dervish |
If I as a private citizen are subject to a ticket or citation, it's laughable and abhorrent to think an officer, off duty, is immune from the same ticket. Officers deserved the criticism and those supporting them are cindining special treatment not given to the rest of us. Same with cellphone and seatbelt laws. | |||
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Don't Panic |
/sarc on Yeah, in Chicago, there's no bigger fish to fry than to investigate parking abuse. /sarc off Maybe in Mayberry, if Andy and Barney were misusing parking, that might get to the top of the list. For Chi-town? Not hardly. How many homicides are we up to there? This week? | |||
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| Never miss an opportunity to be Batman!  |
Do you think that Alderman, politicians, politically connected get the same benefit, because they do. Of course here is the rest of the story from Second City Cop Blog: "Courtesy Parking So if courtesy parking is a thing of the past, does that mean: aldercreatures parking in police lots is going to be reported by Ferguson and fines/sanctions will be filed against politicians? District level "courtesy" for certain events is done now? churches, especially on the south and west sides, can expect strict parking enforcement by officers - and the "revrunds" and aldercreatures who call to complain will be told to stuff it? Sunday is coming, and we're asking for a friend." | |||
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My old man went to drill weekend at the East 9th street naval reserve station in Cleveland once a month. I always used his credentials to park there during Browns / Indians games and the Labor Day airshow. It was awesome. I have zero issues with people taking advantage of a perk afforded them, or their family. | |||
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If your house is on fire and your front door needs painted, one takes priority. | |||
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| Only dead fish go with the flow |
The way to apply the law is from the top down, not the bottom up. The top of the pyramid is where the example is made and legitimacy is established. The ability to break the law, no matter how trivial, is not a"perk". What about my example above where police towed away legally parked cars so they could park their own cars in that area to play football? How do you think they got that brazen? It's incremental. | |||
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So if a policeman takes a small bribe, that would be OK, just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic. As long as the higher ups get much larger bribes (those would be crimes) it would just be a perk. Got it. | |||
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Dinosaur |
More like the big shots getting out of parking tickets for bigger cars. Trying to equate it with major felonies is silly. It’s like saying leaving work five minutes early is no different than cheating old ladies out their life’s savings. | |||
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Chicago has limited PD resources. Should they spend the time chasing down cops that park illegally or should they spend time chasing down gang bangers? Seems like a no brainer to me. | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
I'm pretty sure they have personnel assigned to different squads. I would think they have one that deals with traffic and parking pretty much exclusively. It's kinda their job. Nah. I'm probably wrong. I don't know what they do. | |||
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Discipline starts with small things. "Ninja kick the damn rabbit" | |||
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Guess the police need to learn the lesson, "lead by example". ______________________________ Stupid people are like glo-sticks. I want to shake the shit out of them till the light comes on | |||
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This is chicken shit. This isn't: Diplomats owe $17 mll in New York parking fines http://nymag.com/intelligencer...parking-tickets.html _________________________ | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Very well said. Do I think it's OK for some cops to use their positions to get some free parking? Of course not. But I think it's insane for the IG to ignore the tidal wave of corruption throughout many levels of government in this State, but decide they need to spend time and resources to go after a couple of cops for a minor transgression. Moreover, I may be naive, but I think that if people start seeing high level officials start heading to jail for corruption, folks down on the street will have second thoughts about stepping over the line themselves. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Great site for those keeping tabs is HeyJackass!. So far this week: 26 shootings and 2 homicides; for October, 54 shootings and 9 homicides; for 2019, 2,182 shootings and 408 homicides. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
It's the Inspector General for the City, not the State. They don't have jurisdiction over State officials. And it's the Office of Inspector General, so they can investigate more than one thing at a time. Just because there are bigger fish out there doesn't mean they have to, or should, ignore the small fries. Just like traffic cops don't let you off the hook if someone else is speeding faster than you were. You still get your ticket. | |||
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