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A couple days ago, we mentioned Pittsburgh PD wasn't responding to an entire series of calls for service that weren't "in progress."
That wasn't the full extent of the disaster that is Pittsburgh:
"The Purge" is coming to Pittsburgh between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m., and if that works out well enough for the city's criminal class, maybe they'll expand those hours.
[...] Under the new rules that went into effect at the end of February and were just given nationwide attention by End Wokeness on Twitter/X, there will be no Pittsburgh police at the city's six police stations between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.
They're actually closing police stations for four hours overnight. Cops will still be on the streets, and they'll probably have some form of access to locker rooms and such, but the lobbies will be closed / locked / unavailable.
We used to joke with the desk crew about hanging a "Closed" sign on the entrance on particularly busy nights...and some of the overly slow nights, too. But Pittsburgh is actually doing it.
Maybe Conehead will let District Commanders dig a moat out front and raise the drawbridge for a few hours overnight or on major holidays.
Labels: out-of-state, sarcasm AND silliness
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
43 Comments:
It needs to happen in Chicago.
Midnight desk crews need to be eliminated.
ARS all the way.
America.
Perfect. I see no problem due to blue state policing
Why is this news …lobbies of police departments should be closed from 7 pm to 7 am everyday. Most suburban agencies, even those in rougher areas , do this and it works out fine. The cops on the graveyard shift can still come and go as they please just not every asshole.
OEMC may have to follow suit soon. They still can’t replace the April 1st purging of their corrupt employees. The people (and folks) they are hiring they’re trying to cram everything they need to know to do their jobs correctly in mere weeks causing half of them to quit. Just in time for the lay-up & FMLA abuse season.
I also read where there will be as few as 20 officers patrolling during those overnight hours.....in a city of 300k. How many of those will be inexperienced officers who drew the short straw because of seniority? How on God's green earth does this end well?
Police stations should be secure facilities. Chicago police stations are less secure than public libraries. There should be at most a little lobby with a little window made of bulletproof glass and maybe one chair. It shouldn't be a place for the homeless or other troublemakers to congregate. If someone shows up with official business, they can be buzzed in to the secure area and have an armed police babysitter for their entire stay. Right now we have too much access for random shitbirds. It's a health and safety issue, and there's absolutely no reason our police stations should be as open as they are.
Don’t laugh. With another “Summer of Love” the DNC and other festivities approaching the City will be stretched to the limits. Don’t forget our ever growing group of newcomers that must cared for and nurtured. We did not have them in the past. Who knows the summer heat might make them restless. In any case District manpower always takes the hit for heads. I can see them limiting services at that level.
Sounds like a John Carpenter movie!
We all know you go to almost any other police station it is like a jail, the coppers are secured behind bullet proof glass and heavy doors unlike here where police are the yellow canaries praying an incident does not maim them or take their lives!
How long before the stations are broken into. Just look at Minneapolis during the riots. They took over an occupied station and burned it to the ground. I'm giving it two weeks to give them time on how to do it.
Another report said there will only be 20 officers on patrol during the night watch. For the entire city.
You'd be surprised how many decent sized police departments used to have 24 hour desks but have closed down at 2200, 2300, 0000. They reopen 8 hours later. It's working out just fine.
It has to be by design, organically, this is impossible. The democrats are herding white people into small rural areas is my guess. That way it's easier to carpet bomb.
That's what happens when you vote for Fetterman.
I remember a certain F/2 Lt in 007 who would turn off the lobby lights at night / 1st watch, so the citizens would think the station was closed and no one would come in. (circa 2009/10)
A person before her time.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OEMC may have to follow suit soon. They still can’t replace the April 1st purging of their corrupt employees. The people (and folks) they are hiring they’re trying to cram everything they need to know to do their jobs correctly in mere weeks causing half of them to quit. Just in time for the lay-up & FMLA abuse season.
3/12/2024 12:37:00 AM
i cant wait for that purge! fire all those fat ugly wastes of space (alot of 300lb space). cant do their jobs and just want to be side pieces for married officers.
Me thinks there's a barbeque in their future....
It'll be interesting when the first person is killed on the doorstep of a closed police station in Pittsburgh. Won't that make a fun headline.
Arm yourself. You are your own first responder, no matter where you live.
Illinois State Police suspended all operations in the former District 16 from 0200 to 0600. I don’t know if that’s still in effect but D-16 covered a very large portion of northwest Illinois up to the border with Iowa, Wisconsin. Many of the sheriff departments were shut down as well or just one or two cars for an entire county. Most of the small towns have no PD so if you lived around there and need cops there wasn’t going to be anybody to respond.
The illusion of the reliability of safety to move about within big cities, paying no heed to the natures of time and place, is being shattered by these events.
The learning curves of so many require the hardest of hard ways to bend the curve to realities most displeasing and most vigorously and delusionally denied.
Those determined to maintain their delusions of reliable safety are less intelligent than the hoodrats who threaten this fantasy.
Shit, less intelligent than actual alley rats scrounging for edible garbage.
Law enforcement only works when law enforcers kill the killers before the killers can kill them.
This natural law is not exclusively effective to law enforcement officers.
The in one door and out the other impotence of law enforcement is rendered moot by application of natural law, which is in one door and out in a box to graveyard.
So, no police presence is opportunity for those wanting relative safety within their area of inhabitance to kill the killers before the killers kill them.
The killers kill each other this way, yet are woefully meager in the results of same.
Realties compel clarity of just what world we live in.
And the brief, historically, periods of perceived reliable safety are the exception to the rule of nature.
Americans residing within big cities are being provided with opportunity to face nature of world that many others have always seen and endured.
The equality of reality.
Let’s give it a try, shall we.
The illegals could pick up the slack during these hours.
Nothing says "We've lost control" like an armored police station.
As long as 911 is still working I don't see an issue in locking up overnight.
If it is an emergency call 911 otherwise wait for business hours.
This would be a relatively painless way to save money.
Plus it gives you a good excuse to kick the invaders out.
"Gee, we would love to help the new arrivals but it wouldn't be safe to lock them in the station."
Doesn't sound like much will change. On 1st watch the station is a place to go to the bathroom, and finish some reports. Will the homeless be locked out as well? If so...I approve.
What could wrong. Why only 4 hours?
Where I live, the police station is open 9-5, M-F. Period.
When you walk in, you're in a concrete box 6' wide by 20' long with a heavy steel door at the far end.
Halfway down the left wall is a 3' x 6' window of 1.5" Armorlite.
Across from the window is a 'bench'. This bench is a 8' 2x10 anchored in concrete.
Cameras at each end surveil the entire space.
2 more cameras in the secure space watch thru the window.
We're just a podunk exurb of OKC, population 6600.
I've been here 17 years. I know every cop by name and by sight.
Every one of them know me, my wife, our cars and our dogs.
Typical response time to a 9-1-1 call is under 3 minutes. 90 seconds is not unusual.
We take care of our cops. They take care of us.
(OT) crazy things are happening. Look at this from Joe Rogan’s podcast. We all know him as being a very tough guy who takes no bullshit, talking biblical.
Listening to Joe Rogan he’s the tough MMA fighter with the top podcast. He’s talking about the river Euphrates that is drying up and there is all of these strange sounds, and in parts that it’s drying up they are finding caves and caverns in there. He’s relating it to the Bible to revelation where the Bible talks about the river drying up to hear a man like this saying this really puts things in a lot of perspective he’s not like a Bible, thumping type . So I did a little research and it is true. It is drying up crazy times.
8:11 am 300 lb waste of space sounds like our crybaby desk dolly in 9
The Dilbert guy is more based than Rogan.
Blue cities are No Country For Old Men…….
“Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...
That's what happens when you vote for Fetterman.
3/12/2024 07:44:00 AM”
Which one?
There’s are couple iterations of him that are trotted out at various times.
"Illinois State Police suspended all operations in the former District 16 from 0200 to 0600. I don’t know if that’s still in effect but D-16 covered a very large portion of northwest Illinois up to the border with Iowa, Wisconsin. Many of the sheriff departments were shut down as well or just one or two cars for an entire county. Most of the small towns have no PD so if you lived around there and need cops there wasn’t going to be anybody to respond."
The "districts" are now essentially gone. New ISP command merged districts to larger areas named "troops" (dumb) and have had TWO re-orgs (I'm told there was no benefit to staffing on patrol, just funneled bodies to pet projects to look cool for some crazy boss). ISP command even made enemies with the Tollway (they paid for everything, and ISP command was like nah, we'll just beg and borrow more from the taxpayers!)
To my knowledge only Springfield and Chicago have fully open HQs when I asked. Every other HQ is closed during non-bankers' hours. Typically, only 2-4 uniforms on patrol for way more real estate to patrol (again, my buddy says they have 4 folks working for 11 counties........ 11!!). Poor ISP, they have a boss that took all the Troopers from areas that rely on them to stuff them in "corridor" areas for dope (you can see this when there's a load of them on the interstate in the median BUT also a ton of motorist assists/crashes they are ignoring).
This all assumes they aren't forced to cities to play city cop. Most of us folks already arm ourselves since ISP command abandoned our Troopers. I believe the IL Sheriff's Asssoc. claimed ISP has on average a 1.5hr response time. ISP is in shambles. I wish them the best though, quite a fine agency with a ton of good people. I'm told most are held hostage (so to speak) by their little crazy Colonel and are mostly afraid of retribution. Here's to hope of good people speaking up and making ISP better. CPD stay tough, coppers elsewhere, watch your buddies and family. Job doesn't matter if you have nothing after it.
Fuck it. The democrats made the police full service. My Mac Donald's fries are cold. Lil day-day won't mind his momma. Baby daddy ate my Popeyes. Rules for radicals. Overwhelm the system and crash it. Finally a progressive plan succeeds. Now no soup for you.when you get out the hospital call 311 for a report and enjoy your workers paradise. Suicide by stupidity. Sorry all outta fucks to give. Stop by later maybe I'll care. Not.
The sheriffs station and the local police station in my peaceful, English speaking, deep in the Heart of Dixie, functional red state town are not designed for loitering piss bums. The public areas are approximately 12’x12’ concrete boxes. The desk personnel deal with you from behind cinder block and reinforced glass. Bullshit not tolerated. Please pass the butter beans and sweet tea, Ma’am.
Cool, I’m not alone. I started closing shop between those hours myself. Ever since then I’ve been well rested, bright and bushy tailed for check off. That’s right check off. I start my day fresh. Try it. Get fetal.
(OT) crazy things are happening. Look at this from Joe Rogan’s podcast. We all know him as being a very tough guy who takes no bullshit, talking biblical.
Listening to Joe Rogan he’s the tough MMA fighter with the top podcast. He’s talking about the river Euphrates that is drying up and there is all of these strange sounds, and in parts that it’s drying up they are finding caves and caverns in there. He’s relating it to the Bible to revelation where the Bible talks about the river drying up to hear a man like this saying this really puts things in a lot of perspective he’s not like a Bible, thumping type . So I did a little research and it is true. It is drying up crazy times.
3/12/2024 12:33:00 PM
Save this shit for your Facebook conspiracy theory groups. The Bible isn't meant to be taken literally. It was written by a bunch of random people who didn't understand the world around them. It's not meant to be some historical record or a predictor of future events. Be as spiritual/religious as you like, and believe in whatever higher power you wish, but don't use religious writings as proof of anything, especially things easily explained by science. Joe Rogan is not a biblical scholar by any means, nor is anyone who thinks the Bible explains rivers drying up and "strange sounds" from the sky. You're either extremely naive, extremely stupid, or mentally ill to believe any of this nonsense.
Nothing says "We've lost control" like an armored police station.
3/12/2024 09:54:00 AM
Do you lock the doors of your home at night? If so, you must not feel in control of your own home. Common sense safety precautions aren't a sign of loss of control. Nothing says illogical extremist thinking like jumping straight to "we've lost control" because of some locked doors. If you don't think there's a chance for violence to occur towards police in a police station that isn't secure, I'd urge you to check out some YouTube videos of attacks inside police stations. If you don't see how securing police stations in the current state of this country isn't an overreaction, maybe you haven't been paying attention. Maybe you're arguing the opposite, that police stations all need to be locked down because we've lost control. If so, that's another illogical extremist conclusion. Taking a few steps to increase security is just a good idea, regardless of how much control we have or have lost.
remember a certain F/2 Lt in 007 who would turn off the lobby lights at night / 1st watch, so the citizens would think the station was closed and no one would come in. (circa 2009/10)
A person before her time.
You mean gushes?
ARS all the way.
Ars closes overnight now too.
Police stations should be secure facilities. Chicago police stations are less secure than public libraries. There should be at most a little lobby with a little window made of bulletproof glass and maybe one chair. It shouldn't be a place for the homeless or other troublemakers to congregate. If someone shows up with official business, they can be buzzed in to the secure area and have an armed police babysitter for their entire stay. Right now we have too much access for random shitbirds. It's a health and safety issue, and there's absolutely no reason our police stations should be as open as they are.
They were designed this way on purpose by Maggie Daley to be open and inviting. You could also see your giverment at work.
Save this shit for your Facebook conspiracy theory groups. The Bible isn't meant to be taken literally. It was written by a bunch of random people who didn't understand the world around them. It's not meant to be some historical record or a predictor of future events. Be as spiritual/religious as you like, and believe in whatever higher power you wish, but don't use religious writings as proof of anything, especially things easily explained by science. Joe Rogan is not a biblical scholar by any means, nor is anyone who thinks the Bible explains rivers drying up and "strange sounds" from the sky. You're either extremely naive, extremely stupid, or mentally ill to believe any of this nonsense.
3/12/2024 10:58:00 PM
Bible is talking about the Euphrates River drying up and right now as I type this the Euphrates River is almost extinct. You’re really Catholic, aren’t you.
Bible is talking about the Euphrates River drying up and right now as I type this the Euphrates River is almost extinct. You’re really Catholic, aren’t you.
3/13/2024 06:56:00 PM
The Bible talks about a lot of crazy shit. None of it should be taken as historical fact or accurate predictions of future events. Fundamentalists are either profoundly stupid or profoundly ignorant. I'll give you one example and then you can make up your mind and believe whatever you wish. Noah supposedly began building the ark after he reached 500 years old. He spent 50-100 years building the ark, depending on how one chooses to interpret the Bible. He had to gather all the food for the animals and his family to eat, and store it on the ark. Then, in a matter of 7 days, he, now 600 years old, was able to load pairs or more of every creature on earth onto the ark. These millions of creatures somehow all knew to go to Noah, and somehow were able to reach him no matter the distance or obstacles. They all somehow fit onto the ark, along with enough food to feed them for a year while they floated on the floodwaters. That all happened, right? By the way, if you're Catholic, when you receive communion, you're supposed to believe you are drinking the blood and eating the flesh of Jesus Christ. The bread and wine are said to be the actual blood and flesh of Jesus. Try to realize that symbolism and scare tactics are a major part of any religious writings. You can't tell me you take everything in the Bible literally, or else you never actually read the Bible. Save your judgment for someone else.
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