Valley cop blows a .17
Back in the days before Google, we used to call it "browsing". If you have no idea what "browsing" used to be, it typically involved a library and a bunch of newspapers hanging on sticks.
The idea was this: you were looking for something, although you had no idea what, just for the fun of looking.
I still don't know how I got to this police blog, Officer.com, tonight. I guess I was browsing. But I found the following paragraph at this long blog entry (quoting another long blog entry) fascinating:
Lots there to contemplate. The top thing that strikes me, though: there's been damage to the LAPD's Alcohol program? Huh? Shame on the Chief, if true.
Cops need to find ways to cope with the stress of their jobs, and walking the line between esprit de corps social drinking and alcohol abuse is always of course very tough, even without stress piled on. But if the model is now something like "lip-service zero tolerance"---as is the vogue for so many kinds of civil service problems these days---well, that might be a tad unrealistic. Viz. The Shortstop on a Friday night.
Point One Seven---that does seem hellaciously abusive, maybe dismissal-level abusive. But I'll draw an inference for you, from the blogging cop's perspective: without a good, kindly, even a tad tolerant alcohol abuse program available to cops, guess what you're going to see more and more of going forward? Uh-huh---hellacious alcohol abuse. That'll cost the City far more money than any program as it spends so much training cops it's later obliged to dismiss.
Again, this all is only hearsay on a blog---it's not like a responsible print scribe has checked into it or anything. But what's up with the LAPD and the way it handles alcohol abuse these days? A better program now might head off another .17 a few months down the line.
The idea was this: you were looking for something, although you had no idea what, just for the fun of looking.
I still don't know how I got to this police blog, Officer.com, tonight. I guess I was browsing. But I found the following paragraph at this long blog entry (quoting another long blog entry) fascinating:
I heard, today, that a San Fernando Valley cop was arrested for felony DUI, and blew .17’s. As a 22 year member of the Peace Officer’s Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, I’m sorry I won’t be there to lend a hand, if he (or she) decides that he (or she) has a problem with alcohol. But with the damage done to the LAPD’s alcohol program, perhaps they’ll just be sent packing, with no assistance offered - that’s the new model.
Lots there to contemplate. The top thing that strikes me, though: there's been damage to the LAPD's Alcohol program? Huh? Shame on the Chief, if true.
Cops need to find ways to cope with the stress of their jobs, and walking the line between esprit de corps social drinking and alcohol abuse is always of course very tough, even without stress piled on. But if the model is now something like "lip-service zero tolerance"---as is the vogue for so many kinds of civil service problems these days---well, that might be a tad unrealistic. Viz. The Shortstop on a Friday night.
Point One Seven---that does seem hellaciously abusive, maybe dismissal-level abusive. But I'll draw an inference for you, from the blogging cop's perspective: without a good, kindly, even a tad tolerant alcohol abuse program available to cops, guess what you're going to see more and more of going forward? Uh-huh---hellacious alcohol abuse. That'll cost the City far more money than any program as it spends so much training cops it's later obliged to dismiss.
Again, this all is only hearsay on a blog---it's not like a responsible print scribe has checked into it or anything. But what's up with the LAPD and the way it handles alcohol abuse these days? A better program now might head off another .17 a few months down the line.
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Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 11/02/2007 11:25:00 PM
15 Comments:
Pah, Joseph.
Don't you read this blog? Mayor sez the market will fix everything. No nanny state!
Let those cops use their own money to find the help they need in the marketplace.
Let them read Ayn Rand.
Dumbass.
Me too--I am suspicious of libertarianism for precisely these reasons.
But also to me, this is the market trying to fix something. It's a straight economic equation: if you go through the trouble of training cops, you'd better have programs available that make sure you can hang onto them.
Again,hearsay and you post. Assaults against police officers are up 49% yet I you don't post that. Officers are injured in the line of duty responding to some gang banger family and you don't post that. With the consent decree police officers are getting bogus complaints filed against them by gang bangers and we don't read that. Officer Ripatti is paralyzed because she risked her life chasing a felony suspect who robbed a store and we don't read that. Is it any wonder its getting harder for LAPD to recruit officers who want to work in a city where there's no support or the politicans speak out for illegals instead of the men and women who are out there every day chasing the gang bangers extorting money from vendors, gang bangers doing drive bys, rapists, thugs etc. God Bless them All.
Immigration-sweep arrests jump 63 percent: Critics contend raids target more than criminals
....Putting more agents on Southland streets to carry out sweeps, immigration officials said Friday that they have made a record number of arrests this year of criminal immigrants and those who ignored deportation orders.
Nearly 2,700 were arrested during raids from the San Fernando Valley to San Bernardino during the year ending Sept. 30 - a 63 percent increase over the previous year.
"In the past, there wasn't a concerted effort to identify and locate people," said Jim Hayes, Los Angeles field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's detention and removal operation. "That has changed."
There are an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., with the largest concentration in the Los Angeles area. That number is difficult to estimate, but experts say about 2.4 million live in California.
Up until now, immigration officials rarely focused their attention on L.A., but with increased pressure to crack down on those living in the country illegally, agents have ramped up enforcement efforts.
Besides an increase in arrests, the number of illegal immigrants deported from Southern California has risen steadily over the past two years, from 10,352 in 2005 to 13,441 this year....And in October, the head of ICE announced its largest sweep ever in the Southland, with 1,300 illegal immigrants taken into custody during a two-week operation.
LET'S SEE THE MECHA POLITICANS COME OUT AND SUPPORT THE ILLEGALS AND SAY THIS IS WRONG TO GO AFTER CRIMINAL ILLEGALS. GOTTA LOVE ICE FOR FINALLY GETTING RID OF ILLEGALS IN OUR CITY
Somebody google Lupe Andrade, Hollenback Division of LAPD.
Joseph Mailander writes ...
Again, this all is only hearsay on a blog---it's not like a responsible print scribe has checked into it or anything.
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Welcome to the three-stooges blog, where just about every story is hearsay. You will make a nice addition to the stooge's stories and Captain Jack's general innuendo, savvy?
Uh-oh....someone (10:47 AM) has "Pirate Envy"
Again,hearsay and you post. Assaults against police officers are up 49% yet I you don't post that...
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Welcome to the three-stooges blog, where just about every story is hearsay...
Maybe you like print better, where every LAPD story is about May 1...
Remember, this story originated from a retired cop narrative at a cop site, not with me at this site. I thought it was credible enough as a blog post to invite others, including yourself, to look at it.
I'm also trying to have a program looked at here. And as for my opinion, if it turns out that the retired officer is correct, and the alcohol program doesn't serve cops adequately, I would rather see it strengthened than scrapped. If cops aren't getting the kind of programs they need to help them solve problems, let's try to fix that.
Let's give Mailander some credit here for at least trying to bring in an issue that isn't all "what we hate about the Midget Mexican Mayor and anyone he knows" collective hysteria.
Whatever you think about the Mayor, making this a one-issue blog is just plain irrelevant.
The fact that people are inclined to discredit anything posted here, shows what a low zuma dog and Spot and even Mayor Sam and Antonio Watch with their open and blind vindictiveness, have led to.
11:43, why would someone envy a douchebag?
The Pirate Envy post seems to refer to Jack Hoff, who it's assumed, envies Jack Sparrow of the convoluded innuendos. Why would he envy Sparrow the Pirate, indeed? Who is Jack Hoff? Why does Jack Hoff think that Wet Spot is a Jackoff? Why does Wet Spot attribute every criticism to Jack Hoff Pirate Envy?
Why are crocodiles in the Nile not exactly the same as alligators in the Everglades?
Do wealthy Florida alligators look down on poor Nike crocodiles?
Do crocodiles envy the Florida alligators?
Does Reggie the Alligator look down on poor third-world crocodiles?
Does Reggie the Alligator look down on all the humans bused in from Janice Hahn's district waving at him and pretending to be his friends, just to get their own Photo Op?
Do Jack Hoff, Jack Sparrow and Jackoff Wet Spot have the answers?
I don't look down on poor third-world crocodiles?
I enjoyed having Janice Hahn's district residents waving at me and pretending to be my friends, just to get their own Photo Op?
I only look down on the three stooges, who write mostly hearsay and convoluded innuendoson on this blog.
3:23, those are deep questions indeed, but there is only ONE answer:
"Spackle."
Savvy?
Here you go Joseph. This pschyo bwas taken to court by LAPD Hollenbeck officers for filing over 100 bogus complaints against them and LOST. Everyone in the community knows she is a gang banger supporter and has ties to the most notorious gang in ramona Gardens, Big Hazard. Yet, dumb ass Huizar wants more cops patrolling Ramona Gardens knowing when they respond they're getting shot at by the gang bangers.
LAPD Officers Win Case Against Chronic Complainant - (LA Slimes)
She is addicted to abuse of the citizen complaint system within the LAPD and in the ...Under the consent decree, every complaint must be individually investigated — at a cost of up to thousands of dollars to the city. Until a complaint has been cleared, it can stain an officer's record and make it more difficult to win promotions.
In an unusual move that has drawn concern from civil liberties advocates, police — acting independently of the department — banded together and went to court asking a judge to order Andrade to stay away from them and their station....Meanwhile, she has been charged with more than two dozen misdemeanors over the last few years, from driving without a license to more serious allegations.
Just read anything by Joe Wambaugh about the LAPD. This is nothing new, in LA or anywhere else.
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