One time, back in Germany, a drunk buddy of mine told of how he and some friends went around down by the Hauptwache, in Frankfurt, and addedd chalk marks all-around the tires of cars that had been marked by der Poleizi. I wonder what they did when they came back around and saw dozens of chalk marks on each and every car?

 

I'm gonna hang a guess out there and say they just ticketed all the cars anyways haha.

 

Hey, sorry if you've answered this already, i've only read 3 pages or so. What gun options do you have? I noticed in the off topic gun thread that you had a 223 and a glock. Say you had another gun that you wanted to use on duty is that possible? What are your options? Do guns used on duty have to be issued by the station? Just curious

 

Varies by department. NYPD lets you choose your weapon, my department does not. We also have shotguns as an option. Even for off duty carry we have a list which we have to choose from. If we purchase an off duty weapon we have to qualify with those as well, just as often as we do with our on duty weapon. This is for patrol, SWAT gets all the cool weapons. On duty weapons are issued by the department and range staff.

 

So this might have been answered earlier but im too lazy to read it all. Actually I have two questions. 1. Are police officers required to give out a certain amount of tickets per month. I ask this because at the end of the month I see a lot more cop cars at the end of the month. Almost like trying to catch up and give out tickets when they haven't given enough tickets. 2. Do any police departments pay attention to say a youtube video of kids smoking pot. Like does any one ever get busted for posting a video of doing something illegal?

 

what do you have to do to become swat. here in denver and in texas i think its a min of 5 years as a regular cop

 

I saw 12 NJ Troopers on the turnpike Saturday on the northern half of the turnpike (drove from Trenton to NY). All with someone pulled over. I might see 3 total on the southern half of the state.

 

1. Depends on the department, my department does NOT havea quota. Many state departments DO have quotas. Officers who switch to strictly traffic details have quotas as well. It's the patrol officer's who generally do not have quotas because we are busy responding to calls, especially where I work.

2. Something like that we arent going to assign detectives to determine who a bunch of e thugs are smoking pot. Has anyone ever been busted for posting something illegal online? I am sure they have, but I dont know any particular incidents. I would imagine it would have to be a video of a pretty serious crime for a department to even bother.

 

About 5 years on patrol, a good record, and some serious serious physical training. I just started getting back in shape because SWAT is something I am seriously considering, they definately DEFINATELY, get the best toys on the department. Armored personnel carriers,helicopters, automatic weapons, grenades...yes sir.

 

Yeah troopers generally = traffic around here. Some places in the states they actually respond to calls because the towns don't have their own departments.