Haha, MARPAT.
Of course it is!
Lol touché my friend.
If you want attention I"ll give you attention cops don’t get paid to put up with bullshit.
First Amendment my ass. You want to be a dick, then you get treated like one.
I’ve had plenty of people yell out “pig” as I drove past them. If it’s safe to stop I get out and ask them if they have a problem. Everyone has acted like a coward, and denied it , or ran off like a wuss.
For the idiots that pop me the bird, they get it right back. I guess I’m just using my First Amendment right.
If you want I’ll respect you , as long as you show the same to me. Pretty simple it’s called common courtesy.
Absolutely fair, and a reasonable expectation. And just like everyone I deal with, I’ll assume you deserve respect, right up to the point where you show me you don’t.
I confess, for me, the blood-type patch detracts from credibility.
SWAT uniforms are different than their standard patrol uniforms. They don’t wear SWAT gear unless on a SWAT call. The particular OFC pictured was returning from a call (looked like a Dedicated Standby for an event).
Ours are mandated by uniform policy. All of our records are kept on file and brought with us to aid in medical treatment in case of incapacitation.
May not be the best way but it is policy. He may not have a choice.
Understood. I was our TAC Team’s Medical Director for 15 years. When the blood type patch thing came up on our team, it was after a joint training exercise where another team had them. The impetus was that they “looked cool”. I get that it says “I have a cool but dangerous job”, but there isn’t a civilian hospital, urgent care, or EMT in the US that would even remotely consider giving blood or other type-specific component therapy to someone based on a patch they have velcroed to their clothing or gear. It’s malpractice. To people who don’t know, wearing such a patch might be cool. To those who know, it’s just an eye-roller.
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I don’t disagree to a point but just because it doesn’t work for you and your team and you feel it’s “poser-ish,” to other organizations it may be SOP. For mine, it is. Without getting into anything classified we may not have access to medical other than our medics for an unknown amount of time so if we’ve taken casualties we may be doing field TCCC and transfusions and we train for this.
Interesting comments.
Gotta be in about the 1st percentile for function of civilian SWAT teams. You’re telling me you’re part of a civilian SWAT team that takes blood with you on call outs?
No not civilian anymore.
Ah. Ok. Exigencies of military operations, especially SOF, puts our respective discussions on different pages. Including the the one that applies to the guy in the picture.
Deleted, because Mark Twain said ‘Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.’
Consequences for juvenile, bully behavior.
An Alachua County sheriff’s sergeant was suspended for one day and a deputy was reprimanded after they used an armored vehicle to perform a traffic stop…
Sgt. Kevin Davis was issued one day of suspension without pay by Sheriff Sadie Darnell herself, and Deputy Richard Howell was given a written reprimand.
“Sgt. K. Davis is held accountable and responsible for the management of this incident overall,” the report stated “He demonstrated inadequate supervision of the incident and lack of knowledge of ordinances.”…
“Now, these two officers will be trained and I’m sure every other officer in Alachua County will be trained on the fact of expressing negative feelings by a hand signal is not illegal,” Jewell said…
Jewell was issued a warning by the deputies for failure to properly use a hand signal while driving a vehicle, which the internal affairs report found was not an accurate interpretation of state law.
The right decision.