LE on the board and everywhere else.

[wsuwrhr]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY
@FlyByWire

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

 

[wsuwrhr]

People appreciate you keeping us safe, even though we get caught up on the wrong side from time to time.

 

[941Punk]

 

[Ballyhoo]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

Thank you

 

[JD D05]

Yes thank you.

 

[stevesdcb]

Did 26 plus of it in Sacramento.....appreciate the post Brother!

 

[Ragged Edge]

Honestly I don't know how LE puts up with the nonsense they see every day. I am always courteous interacting with them even at the on water "safety checks" which I hate. Thanks for all you guys and girls do.

 

[mitch6601]

Thank you for the kind words Brian.

Dan

 

[BoatCop]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

Man. You got everyone except the guy with "cop" in his screen name.

S'all good. We don't do it for the gratitude. Just trying to make a difference.

 

[rivermobster]

Honestly I don't know how LE puts up with the nonsense they see every day. I am always courteous interacting with them even at the on water "safety checks" which I hate. Thanks for all you guys and girls do.

This.

 

[probablecause]

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY
Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....
Brian

@probablecause

 

[Havasu Rehab]

[emoji119][emoji2532][emoji119][emoji2532][emoji119][emoji2532] Thank You !!!!!

Very rough morning. Had to tun off the tv during the precession. Although seeing all the people lined up along the road and overpasses was a great reminder that there's still a lot of good people out there. Stay safe...


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[Fun Times]

Added @FlyByWire too for you wsuwrhr 'As that could have been him too (of many) walking through those doors.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

Thank you

 

[Bobby V]

adding @LowRiver2

 

[WYRD]

Hats off to each and everyone of you.

 

[rrrr]

My thoughts as well. I appreciate the job our officers do, and recognize they perform that job in spite of long hours, insufficient pay, and stresses on their spouses and children.

Here in the DFW area, an Arlington cop is being excoriated because he killed a shitbag that rolled up the passenger window on his arm and drove away from a stop.

The asshole had warrants, was a convicted felon, and had a gun, controlled substances, and weed in his car.

He was also black and a "good father and son". The officer is Asian, which is just as bad as being white for these purposes, so you see the issue.

The Dallas Morning News did a two page spread about this supposed victim, who could have easily killed the officer had he fallen off the running board of the SUV.

This crap makes me crazy.

 

[KENDOG689]

My SIL and his son are both leo.I have always had tons of respect for the job you do.Thank you and be home for your family every night.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Honestly I don't know how LE puts up with the nonsense they see every day. I am always courteous interacting with them even at the on water "safety checks" which I hate. Thanks for all you guys and girls do.

We were born in a different time when mom dad ( any adult) spoke we listened 100%

 

[boatpi]

Hey I enjoyed all 32 plus years of it. In the hood I saved many people from themselves, learned many things about people as a young man. A life experience that you cannot buy. I would not have changed anything, but it does take a toll.

In 5 ois's, shot at so many times I cAnnot recall, stabbed, od on PCP fumes, broken bones, and always went home smiling.

Worst part is like today, I lost many friends to early deaths. Those people I will never forget.

Worked 77th street division, southeast division, southwest division, burglary auto theft division, robbery homicide division air support division, internal affairs division, retired out of Special Operations Division.

LAPD academy class 11-1973!

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Kilrtoy old school good guy

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Great post. I fly two flags at my house. The one above, and the thin blue line. Thanks to both.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Need to find the blue flag

 

[Backlash]

Hey I enjoyed all 32 plus years of it. In the hood I saved many people from themselves, learned many things about people as a young man. A life experience that you cannot buy. I would not have changed anything, but it does take a toll.

In 5 ois's, shot at so many times I cAnnot recall, stabbed, od on PCP fumes, broken bones, and always went home smiling.

Worst part is like today, I lost many friends to early deaths. Those people I will never forget.

Worked 77th street division, southeast division, southwest division, burglary auto theft division, robbery homicide division air support division, internal affairs division, retired out of Special Operations Division.

LAPD academy class 11-1973!

Hey BPI!! I was born when you graduated! LMAO!!! You old fart! Thanks for all of your years of service and the information you share on the boards. Stay safe!

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Thanks to those who have picked up the ball from my generation.

 

[USClb41]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY
@FlyByWire

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

No, my heartfelt thanks to you, it’s people like you that make it worth it.

 

[boatpi]

Backlash, I still have a few miles left in my tank. Working in a big city is so much different than rural PD's. In many ways safer, we had the best of officer survival training, just think of this, how many LAPD or LASD officers get killed. FYI; LAPD has 17 air ships, yes, 17! Too many, but very few all considered. Altercations, all of the time as larger cities have many more nut jobs. And many more gang members. Understand about 80%+ of crime is gang or drug use involved. I am beyond blessed to have survived many critical events and appreciate every day of my life.

The best times were during the 1984 Olympics. Working with a small team of detectives in my unit solving the theft of Hollywood Oscar statutes, recovering stolen property and solving crimes where good people were shot for not real reason.
Working with some incredible human beings, it is ALL about the people that you work with.

Worst, Rodney King Riots, the burning of nearly every Korean business in south LA. Complete senseless. Death of fellow officers, I lost maybe 10 that I knew very closely.
Crazy times, late night pursuits. So many stories, and funny ones too.

Most difficult, field sergeant and watch commander in Watts (Southeast Division), supervising officers in very difficult almost unimaginable conditions that I could make movies of, yet no one would believe.

 

[bobbytheboozer]

Much appreciation to all LE, firefighters, first responders and especially military and all the families.

 

[BONER]

Yep. Unleash the Cops. Let them do work and smash skulls.

 

[LowRiver2]

adding @LowRiver2

Thanks
-

 

[Smglamis]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY
@FlyByWire

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

Thank you!

 

[havasujeeper]

I was fortunate to be able to call it my career, and now retired from the greatest profession in the world.

 

[LazyLavey]

 

[Dettom]

Even though I'm retired (thankfully). Still appreciate when folks recognize our efforts. We're only human.

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Gramps = fireman

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Backlash, I still have a few miles left in my tank. Working in a big city is so much different than rural PD's. In many ways safer, we had the best of officer survival training, just think of this, how many LAPD or LASD officers get killed. FYI; LAPD has 17 air ships, yes, 17! Too many, but very few all considered. Altercations, all of the time as larger cities have many more nut jobs. And many more gang members. Understand about 80%+ of crime is gang or drug use involved. I am beyond blessed to have survived many critical events and appreciate every day of my life.

The best times were during the 1984 Olympics. Working with a small team of detectives in my unit solving the theft of Hollywood Oscar statutes, recovering stolen property and solving crimes where good people were shot for not real reason.
Working with some incredible human beings, it is ALL about the people that you work with.

Worst, Rodney King Riots, the burning of nearly every Korean business in south LA. Complete senseless. Death of fellow officers, I lost maybe 10 that I knew very closely.
Crazy times, late night pursuits. So many stories, and funny ones too.

Most difficult, field sergeant and watch commander in Watts (Southeast Division), supervising officers in very difficult almost unimaginable conditions that I could make movies of, yet no one would believe.

@boatpi

BoatPI next time I am south we need to get together for lunch or something.
My agency was tagged by OES to come down for the Rodney King event. Since I was one of only 2 guys who grew up in SoCal, and I was SWAT certified I got sent with 8 others, including the other SoCal guy.
They flew us via Nat'l Guard C-130 from Mather down to Los Alamitos NAS and then bused us up to Rampart on LASD ail buses.
They had snipers on the roof of Rampart and buses blocking all of the streets a block away on alll sides. Pulled one aside to let us in.
I will never forget that briefing.
Building full of NorCal cops from all over, armed to the teeth, and a lot of very thankful looking LAPD and LASO brass when we all walked in from the
buses.
The gist of the briefing will have to wait until we are face to face, but if you were there I am sure you can imagine...
My team was deployed right into Korea town. Someone, I dunno if it was LAPD or OES told us to not bother bringing radios, that they would provide. That was the first screw up.
We did bring our handsets...we could talk to each other but could not talk to anyone down there. Frequency issues.
First shift was 26 hours. Hotter than hell.
Then to the Beverly Wilshire Hilton I think it was. Rinse out the body armor carrier in the shower, somehow the bar downstairs and the kitchen magically opened at 3am and we ate and had a couple of beers to spin down a bit. Sleep suit up again, and about 40 of us armed to the teeth in the lobby waiting for the buses to go back
On the way down to the lobby on my elevator there were about 10 cops and this very young looking couple. They mentioned that last night was their honeymoon.
When the elevator door opened the lobby was full of cops.
The cute young gal looked at me and asked, "Did all of you guys sleep here last night?"
I said, Well, we got here about 2am but yes ma'am, we did sleep here. Headed out again now."
She looked at her new husband and said, "Honey, I am sorry if I had known these guys were here last night...well things would have been different."
He turned beet red and I had to look away.
Second shift was 12.Then a wait for a schuled 3rd run at it but they cancelled it and sent us all back to Los Alamitos for the trip home.

On both shifts our 2 city blocks included all the burned up buildings and the corner where the Guard guys took fire. They had NO ammo. I couldn't believe it. No damn ammo....
I may have left 4 30 round mags with them. They may have split the ammo up and loaded some 20s they had. We had plenty...
We took fire from a 3 story building about 100 ft off the main drag the first night at about 0200. my Sgt peed all over his boots trying to get it in his pants as the asphalt churned up at his feet...the LAPD liaison officer we had with us was yanked outta the LAPD academy. He was only about 8 weeks in. I had a long talk with him and told my Sgt. what was up. I was 2nd in the chain for our team and I became that kids first FTO.
"Stay on my ass, stay sharp"
He did.
When the rounds started flying he was on the radio and within about 30 seconds we had two choppers overhead. Myself and the other SoCal guy and my "boot" LAPD guy made our way over and entered the building...it was a 4 unit apartment deal and this clown was on the roof.
No joy, but down in the alley we found a lot of blood, I think he jumped and broke his leg...compound fracture and lotsa bleeding.
That kid had the makings of a good cop. I often wonder how the job treated him. I put a good word in for him with an LT I talked to at Rampart.
All of the business owners in Koreatown were very thankful and wanted to feed us, etc. 4 private security guards who held off looters at a bank waved us in and we wound up using that place to pee, drink cold water, eat an apple, etc.
The Korean Businessmen who still had a business to protect were all on watch. I had to explain to them that if we saw people with guns after dark and they were not cops....bad things could happen. I had this talk with a family that had an appliance store there and had pushed refrigerators in doors and were laying on top of the fridge boxes looking out. I knew they were armed to the teeth as well. They listened and actually understood. I asked them if they could pass the word on the block for me to their neighbors and they sent a youngster to do so instantly. We saw them after dark, but once they saw us and saw that were were actually patrolling the streets on foot they kept the weapons out of sight.
Also very thankful people.

 

[was thatguy]

I can’t even imagine being a cop.
It isn’t the fact that they can be targeted every second of every day, or the fact that they go straight for the very people that the rest of us try to avoid our whole lives...it’s the patience and tolerance that they demonstrate while encountering assholes.
I have little doubt that I would be up on charges my first week as a cop...assuming I could ever make it past the psych exams.
Most likely I’d just shoot the first dickbag I encountered.

I’ve ran into a fair share of asshole cops, make no mistake. But usually it was because they considered me the “bad guy” in the encounter, and it’s hard to convince them otherwise at the point of contact.

Dad was superintendent of corrections after his military career.
I was involved with the seedy underbelly of Anchorage as a younger man. I met a lot of cops through both of those channels. It was pretty easy to separate the wheat from the chafe when it came to cops.
Some of my best friends were cops, and some of the worst men I knew were cops.

Overall, cops have my respects hands down. Just don’t treat me like an asshole when we meet on the side of the road!

 

[Rickybobby]

I just want to say a heartfelt, Thanks!!

I know the job you do is a largely thankless one, dealing with people at their lowest most of the time. All the while being called to risk your life.

I appreciate the job you guys do/did.

@t&y
@Flyinbowtie
@Ballyhoo
@KNOTONDUTY
@FlyByWire

Sorry for anyone I missed and I am sure there are several....

Brian

Brian
Thank you for the post and while most of us try to keep a low profile here just to avoid the "flack" we truly love our chosen path in life and like Sgt. Ron Helus, understand, someone has to go into the fire fight, we signed up for it, they gave us the tools, lets go handle business. None of the guys I work with have a death wish or want to be a hero, but we know we aint livin for ever and if someone lives while we take rounds, so be it.

I do apologize for the bad apples in our business but we are human and not immune to the ones who slip through, trust me, we hate the bad ones just as much!!!

I was lucky enough to ride with these guys for Ron's procession on Thursday. Every one of us worked with or for Ron in some capacity and it was an honor and privilege to try in some way show my respect.

I hope they identify the CHP Officer who went in with Sgt Helus soon, so he can be given the proper respect as well. That guy is every bit a hero as Ron was and should be recognized for his bravery in the mist of that chaos.

ps
Tradition is, every motor who makes it through motor school, gets a "tag" or a nickname. Mine is "Rickybobby".
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[boatpi]

Flyin there are a lot of stories about the first 48 hours of that riot that's when all the action happened. Friend of mine who is a metro killed two the first day after that he became chief gets driver for the rest of the incident.

I don't get much front line action on that since I was a detective at the time and we had other duties but I was stationed out of Southwest right in the middle of it.
Funny about some of the comments I actually call of the Korean riot,
Every Korean own business those knuckleheads good fine they burglarized and burn them out. The department hid all the stats from the press.

I have another friend that was a supervisor in south-central his guys fired probably 100 rounds at night unless they were positive they hit anybody they just noted in the sergeants login MoveOn.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Flyin there are a lot of stories about the first 48 hours of that riot that's when all the action happened. Friend of mine who is a metro killed to the first day after that he became chief gets driver for the rest of the incident.

I don't get much front line action on that since I was a detective at the time and we had other duties but I was stationed out of Southwest right in the middle of it.
Funny about some of the comments I actually call of the Korean riot,
Every Korean own business those knuckleheads good fine they burglarized and burn them out. The department hid all the stats from the press.

I have another friend that was a supervisor in south-central his guys fired probably 100 rounds at night unless they were positive they hit anybody they just noted in the sergeants login MoveOn.

Yeah we need to chat someday. That briefing before we hit the street...I am certain there were things said by the brass that they have never said again.

It stated with a deputy chief and I think an assitant sheriff standing next to each other at the podium and saying

"Ladies and gentlemen, I see peace officers from all over California here in this room. We are very extremely thankful and deeply appreciate your response to our call for help. We have called because we have lost control of the City of Los Angeles and we cannot get it back without your help. We want to give you the tools to help us get it back. For the duration of this emergency the Chief of Police and the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, within whose jurisdiction you will be working, have suspended our Deadly Force Policy.
We will now Brief you of the Policy in effect for the duration of this emergency..."
You coulda heard a pin drop.
That was the last time I officially took my Gonzales 415 on duty with me. Still have it....just for old times sake.

I saw stuff on those streets during that deal that was simply amazing. Like a Armageddon cop movie, but real as the bullets they were firing at us.
A couple of guys on our crew got their first Tommy Burgers... but did not heed the warning...eat only one.
A cop in all his tactical gear crapping in a metal trash can in the bottom of a back in loading dock is pretty funny as long as it ain't you.

 

[THE WIDGE]

Thank you