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That police cruiser is being a real good boy and trying to help.
Police Officers doing good things
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That police cruiser is being a real good boy and trying to help.
I have definitely hopped out of my PC on a hot call and had to hop back in to put it in park. Anyone who says they haven’t is lying or new. I never let it roll into the polyester pig pile though.
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Perhaps he was trying to run over his Sergeant.
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Said it was Jane Park Plaza.
City taxpayers will likely never know what it cost them.
From what I recall, most PIs involving emergency vehicles in Metro were settled for "undisclosed amount".
“Stop Resisting!”,yah right. I guess you aren’t supposed to be in major pain after being run over a few times. As the poster said, Absolute Clown Show. The injured cop is probably going to retire on that claim and the driver is going to do body cavity searches for the rest of the year.
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Spoken as someone who's never tried to hold down someone high on meth/mental health.......pain means "zero" to them. Sometime 3 or 4 able bodied people mean nothing to them.....
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That's why they should just let LEO's gently cut off someones air supply until they change their behavior.
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Yup...and sometimes several able bodied people with electrical assistance...
Beat me to the punch...as it were, lol.
That only works 'til they're cuffed...and even then. One of the worst dickheads I ever dealt with in the ER was amped up on coaine and alcohol - took 6 big cops almost an hour to finally restrain them enough to get them onto an ambulance cot - contact taped x2, OC sprayed twice, choked out with a baton eventually. He was in my face threatening me despite the 12 pairs of handcuffs holding them attached to the stretcher...they got some sleepy juice...when they heard the order for the needle, they pretended to calm down for a microsecond, but yeah, no...woke up around shift change 7 hours later. There was much rejoicing...
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That's in a hospital. Or, institution.
On the street, or homes, you just did the best you could - until you could get them to a hospital.
Some of the methods of getting them there were pretty crude by today's standards.
It wasn't until I'd been on the job a quarter of a century that they educated us about positional asphyxia.
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The old fish bat eh?
I understand your point about people high on meth/mental health are extremely difficult to arrest but it doesn’t ‘appear’ to be so this time. The suspect screamed in pain when tasered, collapsed and a cop was securing the perp before the ‘moving violation’ occurred.
I have only the vaguest notion of what your day to day life in corrections was like. Respectfully, I couldn’t do a job where you must constantly keep your guard up or it could be your last.
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More like remembering the old "psycho sandwich ".
Outdated in the field . Now they use chemicals.
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Mmmmmmm... Haldol and Midazolam.
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Yes indeed...now if we could just get program directors and legal to authorize tranq guns in the ED's - have loads of B52's, Zyprexa and/or high dose Ketamine for stand off shots to keep too many people getting hurt/involved. Downside is the poor optics of us schwacking someone in the ED with an air pistol or rifle...
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That's what police are for and why paramedics in many jurisdictions have access to haloperidol, olanzapine and lorazepam for im/iv injection and sublingual administration for the olanzapine.
Yes, we were trained to have an upside down stretcher in the racks over potential psych patients on the Herc during my AirEvac course...some drugs, bring the top one down over them and use straps or zip ties to hold the handles together until they calm down. These days, generous use of benzodiazepines with some antipsychotic helps reduce issues associated with agitated delirium...but they definitely need supervised use.
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Guess I was remembering the old pre-chemical days.
It wasn't like working in a hospital, or institution.
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I know...I well remember a dude strapped to a litter with every triangular bandage and field dressing in the ambulance holding him down, showing up at our field hospital one day in 1987...pre us having meds in the vehicle...again why police are trained/paid to use physical force to restrain someone when need be.
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