Even police say FTP every once in a while...

[krazy kris]

Geez... I do this all the time! Last week before I went on paternity leave, I was on a bike patrol at the Local HS and saw a coach and PE kids on the track running in this 100+ heat. Later found out they were running/walking a mile. I dropped my bike, took off helmet and ran a lap and a half with some of the slower kids. THen I stuck around and hung witht he coach as the kids finished. This is the part of my job I love.

getting new leads?

[jdgregory84]

Ridiculous. Even the San Marcos cops while on a noise complaint call played volleyball with us for about 10 minutes before saying keep it down and going back to business. If anything it made us respect their authority even more.

[03trubluGT]

You obviously need to work on your delivery.

Who needs delivery?

[ThreeFingerPete]

You obviously need to work on your delivery.

You obviously need to say "obviously" a few more times.

[Nash B.]

You obviously don't recognize sarcasm.

You obviously need to work on your delivery.

[03trubluGT]

You obviously don't understand the word "generally."

You obviously don't recognize sarcasm.

[03trubluGT]

Throwing footballs leads to marijuana use, and we all know where that leads!

So that's where those cravings come from????

[Nash B.]

You obviously have never seen me at work.

You obviously don't understand the word "generally."

[03trubluGT]

Generally, it seems cops are too busy or don't care to interact with people like they used to. It WOULD be nice to see that a little more. I'm not saying ignore calls, but if not on a call and doing a patrol, what's wrong with tossing a football or saying "hi"?

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You obviously have never seen me at work.

[03trubluGT]

You must have been to my agency. Just about all LT. and higher are this way. They treat everyone else beneath them like shit. It's miserable at times.

It's human nature to forget where u have come from and backstab. It is that way here too to some extent.

[Nash B.]

Throwing footballs leads to marijuana use, and we all know where that leads!

[Damnittsteve]

Geez... I do this all the time! Last week before I went on paternity leave, I was on a bike patrol at the Local HS and saw a coach and PE kids on the track running in this 100+ heat. Later found out they were running/walking a mile. I dropped my bike, took off helmet and ran a lap and a half with some of the slower kids. THen I stuck around and hung witht he coach as the kids finished. This is the part of my job I love.

damn nosey cops!

[Tannerm]

Geez... I do this all the time! Last week before I went on paternity leave, I was on a bike patrol at the Local HS and saw a coach and PE kids on the track running in this 100+ heat. Later found out they were running/walking a mile. I dropped my bike, took off helmet and ran a lap and a half with some of the slower kids. THen I stuck around and hung witht he coach as the kids finished. This is the part of my job I love.

[Forever_frost]

When you removed foot patrols and put cops in air conditioned, tinted windowed bubbles, you started removing them from being part of the solution. Now they are viewed as interlopers that the community do not trust as they don't know them.

That's a generality of course.

[line-em-up]

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Whatever happened to good ol' days when the local police were like Andy Griffith and an actual part of the community? I miss those days, and I am too young to have been around for them.

I do understand their concern about them being on overtime; budgets need to be watched, but throwing a football with kids should not be the complaint.

But, there are a lot of Barney Fife's walking around.