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LMPD searches for suspect after shots fired at officer

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RE: LMPD searches for suspect after shots fired at officer

January 17th, 2014 @ 12:01AM (10 years ago)

The traditional concept of being a police officer is outdated. Police in America can no longer be considered crime fighters. Old heads are trying desperately to hold on to that role, but it is long gone. Midway through my career I saw the writing on the wall. I'm one of the smart ones. If you want a long wholesome career as a police officer, you better come to terms with the fact that you are more a figure head than a crime fighter. I don't chase, I don't pull over cars, I don't get involved in pursuits. I don't do anything self initiated. I answer calls for service and ride my assigned beat. When I go to court I don't have an opinion on a sentence. That's the prosecutors job—I am just a witness. Hate all you want, but it never feels like I'm working. No stress!!

RE: LMPD searches for suspect after shots fired at officer

January 17th, 2014 @ 12:06AM (10 years ago)

Agree....That article said it all perfectly!!!!!!

RE: LMPD searches for suspect after shots fired at officer

January 17th, 2014 @ 11:37AM (10 years ago)

Hah, it's funny how each succeeding generation of "old guys" think the new generation just isn't as good as they were. There have always been lazy people, careerists looking to make Chief, and people too afraid of getting in fights or getting in trouble to be proactive.

Some of the guys being quoted did a good job of impersonating the guy with the slap jack and recovered stolen pistol in his pocket that trained them in the 80s. That guy would get fired today. It's a police department not a football team or a street gang.

Its takes some coaching to develop new officers not just critics and whiners. If the new guys suck, then look first at who trained them and then at who supervises them. There are too many people who were put with retired on duty types, and people who are not doing proactive patrol to train recruits well. Much of the department spends too much time on ticketing to meet defacto quotas and laying low to train properly. A new person will not learn much useful information from that kind of officer.

RE: LMPD searches for suspect after shots fired at officer

January 18th, 2014 @ 8:52AM (10 years ago)

These kinds of quotes just perpetuate the image of police being mental midgets and thugs. The author did law enforcement no favors by quoting these neanderthal throwbacks. They are not the majority representatives of who police are today. They are probably old guys on the way out to work at some court metal detector or in store security.

“What’s gone is police departments looking for the defenseman on the hockey team – the rough guy who can prepare to visit violence [on] a bad guy who would do us harm... [replaced by] the university graduate and all who comes with his entitled attitude,” said one officer.

He added, “But I think the worse thing we did was that we focused so much on law enforcement getting college degrees to move up that the type-A personalities out there in the streets kicking people’s asses and locking people up – well, they had to go to court. They didn’t have a lot of time to work on their master's.”