Just A Thought

How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

So why dont YOU say something useful?

How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

Slam Site. This is rated G in comparison to what is coming.

How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

This is exactly what we are doing. We are informing the public of the REALITY of life in the WMPD and the causes of its unavoidable downfall. Now how to make our life easier.....clean house

[quote="Site Reader":36acyna6]How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

Slam Site. This is rated G in comparison to what is coming.[/quote:36acyna6]

these guys dont even know the meaning of productive, all they seem to do is make threats about videos, pictures on camera phones, this and that...blah blah..more to come, blah blah...they did this, they did that...blah blah, you get my point. Nice thought though.

How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

This is exactly what we are doing. We are informing the public of the REALITY of life in the WMPD and the causes of its unavoidable downfall. Now how to make our life easier.....clean house



It wont. I'm sure the next guy will be so close behind me he can grab it.

[quote="Latin King":fjf2ggeu][quote="Site Reader":fjf2ggeu]How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

Slam Site. This is rated G in comparison to what is coming.[/quote:fjf2ggeu]

these guys dont even know the meaning of productive, all they seem to do is make threats about videos, pictures on camera phones, this and that...blah blah..more to come, blah blah...they did this, they did that...blah blah, you get my point. Nice thought though.[/quote:fjf2ggeu]

Yeah you're right, only FLPD knows how to be productive right. :P
Besides, who wants to be productive for you?

[quote="Latin King":8fhihnlh][quote="Site Reader":8fhihnlh]How about we use this site for something productive, like an exchange of useful information that will make our job safer or easier to do rather it being a "slam site". Just a thought.

Slam Site. This is rated G in comparison to what is coming.[/quote:8fhihnlh]

these guys dont even know the meaning of productive, all they seem to do is make threats about videos, pictures on camera phones, this and that...blah blah..more to come, blah blah...they did this, they did that...blah blah, you get my point. Nice thought though.[/quote:8fhihnlh]

My question is why are you reading these if you are tired of them.
Whats the problem? You don't like hearing what a F--- you are and how the men and women hate you.

Well Site Reader,
We are still waiting for you to say something useful. Its probably been a long time since you have said something useful but try, we know you can do it. :devil:
What's the matter John Denver got your tongue?

Site reader OHHHHHHHHHH Site reader
WHERE ARE YOU? SOMETHING USEFUL PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the delay.

For those of you that are concerned about your safety as well as that of your fellow police officers, there is an excellent web site for you to check into. It is www.calibrepress.com (http://www.calibrepress.com). Once you sign up and prove that you are a law enforcement officer, they have a lot of information available to you. They have one catagory about concealed & disguised weapons. It will open your eyes. There is a related catagory dealing with ways to conceal things like drugs or weapons. There is lots of other good stuff there. I found this site recently. It is very interesting and some of it was very eye opening.

More to come in the future.

Tactics for transporting prisoners

We're all familiar with accounts of arrestees who managed to crawl into the front seat of a patrol car and drive off even though he was handcuffed. Let's review good tactics for transporting prisoners.

These include:

1) The suspect should be thoroughly searched not only for possible weapons and contraband but also for cuff keys, which can be easily hidden in the mouth, on the inside surface of a belt, under a watch or other wristbands, etc.

2) He should be handcuffed in back and snugly seat-belted in.

3) He can be cinched just above the ankles with a pliable hobble, with the loose strand of the hobble closed in the door to restrain his legs and prevent major movement.

4) He should be kept under continual surveillance during all stages of the transport. When two officers are involved, the passenger officer watches the suspect either from the front passenger seat or in back with the properly restrained prisoner, depending on department policy. If you are alone, adjust your rear-view mirror to best reflect the suspect.

For nighttime transports, some officers place a red bulb in the dome light, which helps illuminate the prisoner and any movement while not significantly interfering with the driver's view of the road.

Even prisoners cuffed in back cannot be safely considered to be reliably restrained and ignored, as savvy suspects may know how to "step through" cuffs to bring them in front and then may even be able to open them by using a comb or other commonplace improvised "key." Never underestimate an offender's determination or threat level.

And remember: the closer you get to your transport destination, the more relaxed and complacent you may be tempted to feel, while the suspect may feel increasing desperate to take action as he senses his window of opportunity steadily closing. The offender in this story made his move at the end of the ride, outside a police station.

Police nationwide seeing more violent attacks

The new generation of criminals are more combative and tactical in facing police. They may wear body armor themselves and shoot at the head of an officer wearing a bulletproof vest.
By Tim Collie
The Sun-Sentinel

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — The threat of a death sentence once was seen as a deterrent to anyone thinking of killing a police officer.
Not anymore.

"You used to just see a guy turn around and flee before they'd ever take a shot at a cop," said Lt. Mike Wallace, of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. "Now there's no hesitation. They don't think twice before shooting at the police.

"We've just been lucky so far in Palm Beach County, luckier than what's happened in Broward or Miami-Dade," said Wallace, commander of the county's sheriff's Violent Crimes Task Force. "But I can tell you we're having more people shoot at us than I've ever seen."

The shootings of four Broward County sheriff's deputies in the past 12 months - resulting in deaths of three of the officers - mirrors a national trend in which more officers have been killed than at any time since the late 1970s, experts say. This is also the first year in at least three decades that shootings have exceeded traffic deaths as the leading cause of death for police officers.

Last week's shooting of Deputy Paul Rein makes the Broward Sheriff's Office one of nine local law enforcement agencies across the nation in which two or more officers have been killed this year. Miami-Dade lost one officer in September, and a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office sergeant was killed while sitting in his cruiser at a red light.

As of Friday, at least 63 officers had been fatally shot nationwide this year, compared with 48 shootings in 2006, according to the FBI. The rate of police slayings began to accelerate in late 2006 — the holidays can be particularly dangerous for officers — and the trend has continued this year.

More shootings occur annually in Southern states where police tend to patrol alone. Consistently over the past decade, about 60 percent of all police officers assaulted in the United States were assigned to single-officer patrol vehicles, according to U.S. Justice Department crime statistics. Three of the four Broward deputy shootings involved solo officers.

There is no single cause for the upsurge in killings. Police, prosecutors, social workers and criminologists cite a variety of factors that seem to be behind the rise in violent crime in Florida and the United States over the past two years.

Among the factors: the growing numbers of light, cheap assault weapons, overcrowded prisons that are hardening juveniles and adults, cutbacks in police budgets and anti-crime programs, and the rise of street gangs in South Florida and other parts of the United States.

Together, they are producing a new generation of criminals who are more combative and tactical in facing police. They may wear body armor themselves and shoot at the head of an officer wearing a bulletproof vest. Of 26 officers shot to death wearing body armor last year, 15 were shot in the head, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Broward Sheriff's Deputy Maury Hernandez was shot in the head after a routine traffic stop in early August. He survived. Four days later, Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Reyka was shot at least five times - from as close as five feet - as he investigated cars parked behind a pharmacy in Pompano Beach.

"There's a very dangerous situation in many South Florida inner cities where the youth see the police almost as foreign occupiers," said Wayne Rawlins, a youth crime consultant with Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federally funded anti-crime program based in Hollywood. "These are the offspring of the crack culture of the 1980s, and there's this whole music, video and literature scene in which you don't cooperate with the police, you don't snitch, and you don't back down.

"These guys will not hesitate to draw a gun and shoot a police officer, which means they won't hesitate to shoot anyone else," Rawlins said. "It's just the culture that's been forming because of hip-hop, drugs, and everything else."

The shoot-first mentality also may be the effect of a decade of harsher sentencing for drug use and three-strikes laws that leave many felons with the sense they have nothing to lose. Michael Mazza, 40, who is accused of shooting Rein on Wednesday morning as the deputy was driving him from jail to a court hearing, was a career criminal facing life in prison for armed robbery. He had spent most of the past 10 years in prison on a variety of charges.

"In my opinion, the death penalty is no longer a deterrent to these guys for shooting a police officer," said Scott Knight, chief of the Chaska, Minn., police and a consultant for the International Chiefs of Police on police assaults. "It's as bad as I've ever seen it, and I have 31 years of experience."

Other experts fear the impetus on mandatory sentencing, combined with tougher police responses to crime-ridden communities, is hardening life in high-crime areas. Federal cuts to after-school programs and rehabilitation programs for prisoners have left police officers with few resources to prevent crime surges. There have been more than $2 billion in cuts in Justice Department law enforcement programs since 2002.

"You have a lot of inmates, people who were incarcerated during the war on drugs in the '80s and '90s, being returned to the streets without jobs and without prospects," said Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. "Some of them are going right back to drugs, drug gangs, trafficking. They've done hard time and they don't really care."

Levin also sees a public complacency toward crime and considers that a major concern. Crime rates had been dropping for 15 years until they began rising again in 2004.

As the federal government fought terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, funds were cut and were not replaced by local governments, which weren't willing to pay for more police.

That was especially true in neighborhoods with gang problems that rarely spilled into more affluent areas. In these pockets of poverty, local drug gangs have taken more control.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers have used more aggressive techniques in arresting gang members and deporting them if they're undocumented.

"We got very complacent. Everyone thought that crime would keep falling and nobody bothered to examine why it was falling," Levin said. "A lot of people don't remember the 1980s, how violent it was out there. The danger is that if we're not careful, we slide back into those bad old days."

Copyright 2007 Sun-Sentinel

Instant Response: Carry Off-Duty!
By **** Fairburn, Illinois State Police

Several years ago a comprehensive study of active shooter incidents found that most were over too quickly for a Rapid Deployment Contact team to assemble and make entry into the kill zone. In almost every incident where an active killer was stopped before they fully ran their plan, someone on-scene took immediate action. Generally, these “Instant Responders” were security guards or ordinary citizens. Even when police officers did stop the shooter, they were either on-scene when the shooting started or the first to arrive at the call.

The church shootings in Colorado this past Sunday followed the same pattern. At the first attack, the shooter was gone before police could arrive. At the second shooting, about 12 hours later, the killer was himself killed by a courageous volunteer security worker carrying a weapon on a concealed weapons permit, thus stopping him before he could do more damage. Similarly, an off-duty officer minimized the killing last spring at a Utah mall. Just a few days before the Colorado incidents, another mall shooting in Nebraska was over before police could get on-scene.

Rapid Deployment training is great training. It should be mandatory for all officers and should be refreshed at least annually. But, Rapid Deployment must be considered a follow-on technique to supplement the Instant Response of on-scene personnel or first arriving officers. Any other technique will delay contact with the killer and allow them more time to snuff out innocent lives. Even at the World Trade Center, a large percentage of those rescued and evacuated before the collapse where directed by civilians who stepped up and filled a vacuum of leadership. The 9/11 report dubbed these heroes “First - First Responders.”

So, as we approach this hectic holiday season, I recommend one iron clad rule all sworn officers should obey. Carry a weapon off-duty. For those of you who feel your only off-duty obligation is to be a trained observer: I disagree. And, more importantly, the reality of this spiraling increase of mass murderers also proves otherwise. Remember examples such as the security guard in Colorado and the construction workers at the World Trade Center, who were last seen headed up the stairs to direct the evacuation of one more floor. Step up and remember your oath to protect and serve.

A look at the list of active shooter incidents show that a significant number occurred in religious facilities - of all faiths. Even dedicated officers may feel strange wearing a concealed sidearm at church - until the unthinkable happens at their church and they have the means to save many lives. Carry off-duty wherever you may legally do so.

I live in one of the only two states that have no provision for concealed carry by permitted civilians. A researcher who tracks concealed carry statistics claims several potential mass murders are stopped each year by legally armed civilians, often without a shot being fired. Most of these mass killers are frightened little boys trying to make themselves famous as they go out in a blaze of glory. When confronted by a confident, armed adversary, many such shooters surrender with little more than a whimper.

Step up. Find that off-duty sidearm you carried in your youth and get in some practice time at the range. Be aware of your surroundings at all times - Condition Yellow - Relaxed Alert. In case the elephant does appear in front of you, train your family to get the hell away from you and call in your description to 911. If the shooter does want to fight, you will quickly become a bullet magnet.

Oh, and one last piece of advice. Carry a reload for your sidearm. The off-duty officer who responded at the Utah mall did yeoman work with a .45 and a single magazine ... but said he sure would have liked to have a few more rounds for insurance!

About the author
**** Fairburn has had more than 26 years of law enforcement experience. He has worked patrol, investigations and administration. Since 1996 he has been with the Illinois State Police serving as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst, as the Section Chief of the Academy’s Firearms Training Unit and as the Critical Incident Training Coordinator.
He has a B.S. in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and was the Valedictorian of his class at the Illinois State Police Academy. He has published hundreds of articles and a book titled, Police Rifles.

Instant Response: Carry Off-Duty!
By . Fairburn, Illinois State Police

Several years ago a comprehensive study of active shooter incidents found that most were over too quickly for a Rapid Deployment Contact team to assemble and make entry into the kill zone. In almost every incident where an active killer was stopped before they fully ran their plan, someone on-scene took immediate action. Generally, these “Instant Responders” were security guards or ordinary citizens. Even when police officers did stop the shooter, they were either on-scene when the shooting started or the first to arrive at the call.

The church shootings in Colorado this past Sunday followed the same pattern. At the first attack, the shooter was gone before police could arrive. At the second shooting, about 12 hours later, the killer was himself killed by a courageous volunteer security worker carrying a weapon on a concealed weapons permit, thus stopping him before he could do more damage. Similarly, an off-duty officer minimized the killing last spring at a Utah mall. Just a few days before the Colorado incidents, another mall shooting in Nebraska was over before police could get on-scene.

Rapid Deployment training is great training. It should be mandatory for all officers and should be refreshed at least annually. But, Rapid Deployment must be considered a follow-on technique to supplement the Instant Response of on-scene personnel or first arriving officers. Any other technique will delay contact with the killer and allow them more time to snuff out innocent lives. Even at the World Trade Center, a large percentage of those rescued and evacuated before the collapse where directed by civilians who stepped up and filled a vacuum of leadership. The 9/11 report dubbed these heroes “First - First Responders.”

So, as we approach this hectic holiday season, I recommend one iron clad rule all sworn officers should obey. Carry a weapon off-duty. For those of you who feel your only off-duty obligation is to be a trained observer: I disagree. And, more importantly, the reality of this spiraling increase of mass murderers also proves otherwise. Remember examples such as the security guard in Colorado and the construction workers at the World Trade Center, who were last seen headed up the stairs to direct the evacuation of one more floor. Step up and remember your oath to protect and serve.

A look at the list of active shooter incidents show that a significant number occurred in religious facilities - of all faiths. Even dedicated officers may feel strange wearing a concealed sidearm at church - until the unthinkable happens at their church and they have the means to save many lives. Carry off-duty wherever you may legally do so.

I live in one of the only two states that have no provision for concealed carry by permitted civilians. A researcher who tracks concealed carry statistics claims several potential mass murders are stopped each year by legally armed civilians, often without a shot being fired. Most of these mass killers are frightened little boys trying to make themselves famous as they go out in a blaze of glory. When confronted by a confident, armed adversary, many such shooters surrender with little more than a whimper.

Step up. Find that off-duty sidearm you carried in your youth and get in some practice time at the range. Be aware of your surroundings at all times - Condition Yellow - Relaxed Alert. In case the elephant does appear in front of you, train your family to get the hell away from you and call in your description to 911. If the shooter does want to fight, you will quickly become a bullet magnet.

Oh, and one last piece of advice. Carry a reload for your sidearm. The off-duty officer who responded at the Utah mall did yeoman work with a .45 and a single magazine ... but said he sure would have liked to have a few more rounds for insurance!

About the author
. Fairburn has had more than 26 years of law enforcement experience. He has worked patrol, investigations and administration. Since 1996 he has been with the Illinois State Police serving as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst, as the Section Chief of the Academy’s Firearms Training Unit and as the Critical Incident Training Coordinator.
He has a B.S. in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University and was the Valedictorian of his class at the Illinois State Police Academy. He has published hundreds of articles and a book titled, Police
Rifles.
You creola crayons,get back to the purpose of the threads. It is about WMPD, not a fantasy land PD. Get Real.

Dont worry Officer Safety is probably some rookie or wannabe.

Dont worry Officer Safety is probably some rookie or wannabe.

You don't worry about officer safety because you aren't real cops. You only care about the safety you gain when you talk from behind your computer keyboard. Get a life and be a real cop.

Dont worry Officer Safety is probably some rookie or wannabe.

You don't worry about officer safety because you aren't real cops. You only care about the safety you gain when you talk from behind your computer keyboard. Get a life and be a real cop.

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If you want to post something YOU think is important, just post the link, dont post the whole article. I think we can find it if we want to read it.

I post the entire article to make it easier for everyone. Sometimes links do not work properly when they are put into a post. I care about my fellow officers even if they do not care about themselves or others. I am tired of going to the funerals of law enforcement officers. If I can help reduce the deaths and injuries by doing this, then I have suceeded in my task. Stay Alert! Stay Safe!

I post the entire article to make it easier for everyone. Sometimes links do not work properly when they are put into a post. I care about my fellow officers even if they do not care about themselves or others. I am tired of going to the funerals of law enforcement officers. If I can help reduce the deaths and injuries by doing this, then I have suceeded in my task. Stay Alert! Stay Safe!

Thanc yoo fur postin the hole artickle. I wuz havun truble trimmin and gluin the webb sight too the adres bar. wun day i hoap to be as smart an safety az yoo.