WTF?? Where is this?

Northwestern Pennsylvania.

There is also "Operation Grinch" where the city saves up warrants they could have served well before and serve them all right before Christmas.

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They try to make it sound like they are arresting people that are committing crimes at that time so they can make the city safe, but really they are just screwing with poor families over minor criminal charges.

Note: all non-violent misdemeanors.

So, keeping things safe by not serving a bunch of petty misdemeanor warrants (one of the ones I had was ten months old and the guy lived at the address on the warrant) until right before Christmas so the evil people who did things like shoplift or own pot or argue with a cop have to give money to a bondsman at the time of year that most poor people are most feeling the crunch of poverty.

"Law and Order" in a nutshell.

Oklahoma releases statistics that show that state question 780 (making all simple possession charges a misd. regardless of priors) has saved the state over 60 million dollars in its first year.

Student reported for suspicious lunching

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...?event=event25

Columbus, Ohio is firing a black officer

Which might be cause in a normal enviroment........but....... let's check in with some other Columbus Ohio officers

https://theappeal.org/columbus-ohio-...iscrimination/

NYPD pilots refuse to fly counterterrorism missions
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The NY post story here is that the pilots flew a sky-penis to protest having to fly missions 25 miles out to sea in a single engine turboprop plane. The missions are to scan ships offshore for radioactive material which could be nukes or dirty bombs.

To give you a sense of the risk they are talking about, the "in-flight shutdown rate" of a Cessna Caravan (the type they use) is 1 out of every 330,000 flight hours. If they fly a one hour mission every day, they would expect an engine to fail every 900 years or so.

If they have an engine failure, escaping the airplane and surviving is pretty easy if they are well trained and wearing immersion suits. Survival rate for a ditching would be easily 90%. (see video of a Cessna Caravan ditching in hawaii, with untrained, unprepared passengers having to don lifejackets and egress Ditching.

So the risk is negligible, about on par with the risk of driving a car. Obviously these guys are warrior-cops, with the courage of a hundred ordinary men, and these are counter-terror missions that could save thousands of lives from dirty bombs or nukes brought into the country by ship, and they are getting well paid, so

Please let's stop pretending these guys are heroes

I’m not a pilot, and I don’t know anything about planes, but couldn’t they just invest in a dual prop plane.

In the name of counter terrorism and all that...

If anything, won't they just switch to drones?

It's pretty standard for small planes to avoid flying over water, though that's mostly for hobbyists.

Hardly worth ragging on the cops for.

It's another example of cops being unwilling to accept the slightest amount of risk.

I get that, but in this case who cares?

Municipal cops shouldn't be patrolling 25 miles off the coast. Their jurisdiction should end at the city line, not in ****ing international waters. If incoming ships need to be checked for nukes, that's why we have a Coast Guard. The NYPD is pissed at these pilots because they threw a monkey wrench into the department's power grab/sprawl.

people that dont think they should be hero worshiped for walking around the block care.

to me its beside the point that they shouldn't be enforcing that jurisdiction, if the court/lawyers say that's within their jurisdiction (which im assuming they have since the article doesnt mention it) then that's their jurisdiction.


also the 4 that are getting paid 6 figures to goof off and fly penis shaped routes should obviously be fired immediately.

I'm not opposed to firing every single cop in the entire country, but I'm not worked up over this and not even over the penis route. I wish flying penis routes was all that cops did.

The reason I care is that a lot of cops think of themselves as modern-day warriors, looking down on the weak sheep they are tasked with protecting, who (the sheep) will never understand the balls it takes to do battle on the street every day. Wearing soldier costumes and carrying themselves like badasses that just came back from the jungles of Vietnam. Moaning about the dangers of their jobs and the 'war on cops.' *

And most of the public believes this nonsense, despite all the statistics about the actual safety of being a police officer in the US. So an example of NYPD pilots refusing to fly important missions (this isn't knocking down doors of suspected drug dealers at 3am, this is a counter-terror mission) because they are scared, when thousands of commercial pilots fly the same aircraft type in far more dangerous conditions every day for less money, well that pisses me off.

These pilots aren't refusing to fly because they disagree with the jurisdiction creep of the NYPD.

*For an excellent example of this, On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen. Excellent book with a lot of interesting information about performance under stress. Really cringeworthy though for all the flag-sucking warrior jerk-off culture.

Georgia Police Dept. Defends Use of Taser on 87-Year-Old Woman

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/u...rgia-cops.html

Do not call the police.

Why do white people call the cops on so many things?

Scary to think that you have to consider calling the police on someone is a potential death sentence as opposed to a negligible possibility.

Single-engine piston aircraft, sure, plenty of pilots aren't comfortable flying those over open water. Plenty are though, and the last two record holders for "Youngest Pilot to circumnavigate the world" both did it in single-engine piston planes: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/adrian...b_6875340.html

Being 1000 miles from anywhere, with no coast guard to immediately come pick you up, is a different kettle of fish to being 25 miles from the eastern seaboard, where you'd be picked up in no time at all. They could just ditch next to one of the boats they are supposed to be inspecting or wait 30 minutes for a helicopter.

And aside from that, piston engines fail 200-500x more often than turbine engines, and the Cessna Caravan has a turbine.