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patrol530 said:I'd rather stick a sharpened pencil in my eye.
patrol530 said:I didn't do any ride alongs. I completed the academy, and the first time I occupied the right seat was as a trainee.
FireEMSPolice said:waaaahhhh I gotta move all my shit around wahhhhhh
All I hear is a bunch of crying. Grab your gear and stick it on the back or the trunk. Not hard. Every time I rode with an officer, alot of the crap in the bag isnt that essential (flashlight cone, cover for hat, extra forms). Alot of that is already up front any way without there being extra.
Kinda hypocritical to say they should ride as long as its not with me. As stated earlier, we all had to start somewhere. So what if you have to take another call? Ride alongs typically are there to get a small taste of what its like. Treating them like shit or making them feel unwanted does them a disservice. Granted there are some people who show no interest in public safety and shouldnt ride, but most want to see what its like.
What chaps me more is seeing sworn officers not wanting Reserves/Auxiliaries riding with them. Why not? Its not enough that they come out for free (to do a job you prolly wouldnt do for free) but to make them feel unwanted is even more disheartening. When I was an Auxiliary, I used to hear all the moaning and belly-aching. If you were the low man on the pole, you got a rider unless someone stepped up or the Sgt knew you didnt mind.
Sorry for the rant or sounding like an asshole but it just rubs me the wrong way.
FireEMSPolice said:waaaahhhh I gotta move all my shit around wahhhhhh
All I hear is a bunch of crying. Grab your gear and stick it on the back or the trunk. Not hard. Every time I rode with an officer, alot of the crap in the bag isnt that essential (flashlight cone, cover for hat, extra forms). Alot of that is already up front any way without there being extra.
rwo978 said:It throws you off, which is what most guys are saying. True, you don't use 90% of the crap in your bag. But, just at the point you don't grab something from your bag you're going to have to fish around in your bag, in the trunk for it. It's a little awkward.
rwo978 said:Are you a cop? Do you know what it's like to have an 'office' uprooted? No on both, right?
It throws you off, which is what most guys are saying. True, you don't use 90% of the crap in your bag. But, just at the point you don't grab something from your bag you're going to have to fish around in your bag, in the trunk for it. It's a little awkward.
Until you know anything about this, your opinion is moot.
Stendec said:OK then, I guess you told us. Now when can I stop over and rearrange your toolbox, or medicine cabinet or underwear drawer?
If I'm carrying it. it's essential. Try being a cop, instead of just riding with one, and needing to find those extra TASER cartridges RIGHT NOW.
Stick it in back? Are you insane? Next time you ride, volunteer to ride in back, and after about thirty seconds you'll be begging for the 55 gallon drum of hand sanitizer. We could restart the entire US military biological warfare program with just a couple swabbings from the back seat of the typical patrol car. I wont put anything in back that I'm not willing to burn.
FireEMSPolice said:What chaps me more is seeing sworn officers not wanting Reserves/Auxiliaries riding with them. Why not?
Ben E. said:Because the one that always wants to ride stinks like cat piss, makes weird tick noises like tourett's syndrom, tells me 50 times a night "man I hope we get into a chase or get a big drug bust", or "let's go bust some speeders". Dude, shut the FUCK up.
FireEMSPolice said:I was an Auxiliary Deputy. Yes, I know what its like to have my "office" uprooted, rearranged, etc. Change sucks, so adapt.
Ben E. said:I'm not talking down to you for being "just an auxiliary" so don't take it like that. But being an Auxiliary, did you have your own car, that only you drove, or you only shared it with one other person who mutually agreed on how the car was setup? Or was it a pool car that all the auxiliary's drove? In the case of a deputy with a takehome car, or in my case where I don't take my car home but only one other guy drives it, My patrol bag never moves out of the passenger seat, my partner that drives the car uses it as well. The heat and A/C controls don't move, the side mirrors are rearview don't move, because we are the same hieght. Hell, the radio station rarely changes. The volume on the radio doesn't change. I don't have to worry about where the cap to my spit bottle is, because it's probably still in the door handle. What I'm getting at is when you spend 12 hours in the SAME patrol car every day, I expect nothing to change. When I have someone else in there FUCKING shit up, it sucks ass. Every once in awhile that dumb ass reserve will drive our car and it ends up smelling like cat piss, he leaves the steering wheel jacked up like a school bus, and has the seat back 2 inches away from the steering wheel. My bag has extra shit in it, the ticket book is laying on it's seat, there's used PBT straw wrappers on the floorboard, and my spit bottle cap is nowhere to be found. I just want to be able to get in my car and drive it like every other day.
EVModules said:You seem all sensitive, acting like it's your property when it's actually belongs to the taxpayers!
EVModules said:You seem all sensitive, acting like it's your property when it's actually belongs to the taxpayers!
EVModules said:You seem all sensitive, acting like it's your property when it's actually belongs to the taxpayers!
Stendec said:You're right. I'll take a rider, so that they can tell all the other taxpayers about the shaking that starts at about 75 mph, the constant burning smell, and how the headliner is tacked up with staples. I shouldn't be Bogarting all this fun.
Fast LT1 said:Okay, i've never had a ride along, but sometimes i have another officer ride in my car, i don't mind because all the equipment i need for the most part i carry on my person, everything else hits the trunk. But i did do a lot, i mean a lot of ride alongs back when i was in high school, because we had to take an entrepreneurship class and i picked the police department cause i figured it be easy, but it actually made me want to become one. Also as mentioned above about kids, i wasn't one of those kids that wanted to go bust criminals, in fact my favorite things were actually car accidents, and domestics (don't ask me why). But that has since changed!
All in all, i think the positive aspects of ride alongs far out weight the negatives. If by having a ride along and you convince just 1 person to pursue a job as an LEO or other Criminal Justice jobs, i think that far outweighs the fact of being inconvenienced a night or two. But thats just my $0.02!
ISU_Cyclone said:Well you just took away the point I wanted to make
But from someone who HAS participated in a ride along (or 50), they are helpful to those interested and expose people to some of the realities of the job. So please don't deny someone an opportunity because it may be an inconvenience for 8 or less hours
EVModules said:You seem all sensitive, acting like it's your property when it's actually belongs to the taxpayers!
Station 3 said:It kinda does suck to move all my sh*t to the back of the Tahoe when i have a rider. Plus i "Actually" have to work when i have a rider since all they want to friken do is traffic stops all frekin night. I usually like to patrol for like 5 hours then just park somewhere and pretend im doing radar or something for the rest of the shift :lol: