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Hey Laura, Jane and John. Looks like those sanctioned dance videos and lipsync moves really paid off.

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Dance your self respect away lmao!

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Havent seen any of them. Whered they go now? No more dancing?

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Just who the hell is running these cities. Seattle is a joke, Atlanta police Chief quits. Then Jane is dancing with the Stars. Who the hell reviewed their applications. How do you relieve these people of their civic duties. Failing to act is a administrative rule that should result in firing. Gzzz no one wants to talk about these embarrassments.

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As many of us said from the start. If we disrespect ourselves, badge and uniform it will encourage more disrespect from the public. We need to present a dignified, professional persona. The taxpayers deserve no less. We need to show no favorable treatment to anyone no matter their position in society. We enforce the law period. Dance videos are disgraceful and although well intentioned they were in retrospect a complete failure. Let's not ever repeat that abomination.

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Hey Laura, Jane and John. Looks like those sanctioned dance videos and lipsync moves really paid off.

They would have worked with the old Tampa PD. TPD used to have Firehouse Officers and Community Oriented Policing Officers who worked in the troubled areas. Around the time if Hogue and into the JC and JB era Firehouse officers were abolished and Community Oriented Policing went from working with the community and the needs of the community to just arresting the community members. Biking while Black is the perfect example of this.

Tampa Police, in its march to lower the 'crime rate', went from walking with the community to goose stepping on it. TPD turned its back on the community and went from a partnership with it to a department with the goal of arresting it. We had no defined quota, you can't do that, but we did have productivity maps for officers and squads. Having arrest specific or citation specific quotas are illegal. However, if you have an unwritten quota that crosses both citations AND arrests it is called productivity? Anyone ever get called into the officer for low productivity? Any Sgt's ever get made to show up in staff for their squad being last in the city on productivity?

Yes crime went down in Tampa but at what cost? Yes, officers were productive arresting anyone and everyone we could! The supervisor would breakout their FBI crime stats book to ensure that the correct charge was applied, no need to call a crime a 'Burglary, Robbery, Auto Burglary, or Auto Theft' when they could just re-classify the crime to a different charge and support their lower crime rate narrative.

As a police department we turned out back on the community and severed the ties to them ourselves through our policies to lower crime. No wonder they are upset with us. Yes, we have a duty to arrest people and uphold the law but our jobs are also to be apart of the community when we are at work.

Being part of the community does not mean making the most arrests, in the smallest amount of time, to keep up the facade of lowering crime.

Bring back Firehouse Officers and TRUE Community Oriented Policing officers and rebuild trust with the citizens!

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They would have worked with the old Tampa PD. TPD used to have Firehouse Officers and Community Oriented Policing Officers who worked in the troubled areas. Around the time if Hogue and into the JC and JB era Firehouse officers were abolished and Community Oriented Policing went from working with the community and the needs of the community to just arresting the community members. Biking while Black is the perfect example of this.

Tampa Police, in its march to lower the 'crime rate', went from walking with the community to goose stepping on it. TPD turned its back on the community and went from a partnership with it to a department with the goal of arresting it. We had no defined quota, you can't do that, but we did have productivity maps for officers and squads. Having arrest specific or citation specific quotas are illegal. However, if you have an unwritten quota that crosses both citations AND arrests it is called productivity? Anyone ever get called into the officer for low productivity? Any Sgt's ever get made to show up in staff for their squad being last in the city on productivity?

Yes crime went down in Tampa but at what cost? Yes, officers were productive arresting anyone and everyone we could! The supervisor would breakout their FBI crime stats book to ensure that the correct charge was applied, no need to call a crime a 'Burglary, Robbery, Auto Burglary, or Auto Theft' when they could just re-classify the crime to a different charge and support their lower crime rate narrative.

As a police department we turned out back on the community and severed the ties to them ourselves through our policies to lower crime. No wonder they are upset with us. Yes, we have a duty to arrest people and uphold the law but our jobs are also to be apart of the community when we are at work.

Being part of the community does not mean making the most arrests, in the smallest amount of time, to keep up the facade of lowering crime.

Bring back Firehouse Officers and TRUE Community Oriented Policing officers and rebuild trust with the citizens!

Facts!! Any Sgt on down to the street cop that's been around for a decade or more can attest to this. I am sure there are some retirees that would attest to this also. Let's see a thorough Times report on this. Expose the dirty little secrets!

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They would have worked with the old Tampa PD. TPD used to have Firehouse Officers and Community Oriented Policing Officers who worked in the troubled areas. Around the time if Hogue and into the JC and JB era Firehouse officers were abolished and Community Oriented Policing went from working with the community and the needs of the community to just arresting the community members. Biking while Black is the perfect example of this.

Tampa Police, in its march to lower the 'crime rate', went from walking with the community to goose stepping on it. TPD turned its back on the community and went from a partnership with it to a department with the goal of arresting it. We had no defined quota, you can't do that, but we did have productivity maps for officers and squads. Having arrest specific or citation specific quotas are illegal. However, if you have an unwritten quota that crosses both citations AND arrests it is called productivity? Anyone ever get called into the officer for low productivity? Any Sgt's ever get made to show up in staff for their squad being last in the city on productivity?

Yes crime went down in Tampa but at what cost? Yes, officers were productive arresting anyone and everyone we could! The supervisor would breakout their FBI crime stats book to ensure that the correct charge was applied, no need to call a crime a 'Burglary, Robbery, Auto Burglary, or Auto Theft' when they could just re-classify the crime to a different charge and support their lower crime rate narrative.

As a police department we turned out back on the community and severed the ties to them ourselves through our policies to lower crime. No wonder they are upset with us. Yes, we have a duty to arrest people and uphold the law but our jobs are also to be apart of the community when we are at work.

Being part of the community does not mean making the most arrests, in the smallest amount of time, to keep up the facade of lowering crime.

Bring back Firehouse Officers and TRUE Community Oriented Policing officers and rebuild trust with the citizens!

This is all true, but no way any of this will happen with the body cams. No more discretion. Everyone has to receive fair treatment. So arrest and cite everyone.

.... and as you can see in Atlanta. Body cams do not matter. They will still burn down the city even if you do everything right and it is on video.

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To the OP above(not sure if my first message posted). You are right in what you say, but this is the new age of policing. With body cams, you have no more discretion. You better arrest and cite everyone this way no one can accuse you of showing bias or favoritism.

Also, body cams do not matter. Look at Atlanta. The officers did everything right. It is all captured on video. Yet, the citizens still burned down the city.

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As many of us said from the start. If we disrespect ourselves, badge and uniform it will encourage more disrespect from the public. We need to present a dignified, professional persona. The taxpayers deserve no less. We need to show no favorable treatment to anyone no matter their position in society. We enforce the law period. Dance videos are disgraceful and although well intentioned they were in retrospect a complete failure. Let's not ever repeat that abomination.

Jane will never admit this was a poor decision. See narcissistic people have zero ability for introspection. They are never wrong in their mind.