Live PD

[k9krap]

Is back, from what I heard.  I believe Reelz or RT picked it up.  Okay, I don’t know who did, but I do wonder if they saved the footage that they recorded from the Fredericksburg area.  They were here for several months.  

[Dave's Not Here Man]

The only thing Fredericksburg does most is write traffic tickets. They should have done it in Lynchburg. Lots of actual criming in that city.

Isn't that the show that got busted for shenanigans?

[k9krap]

They took it off when the George Floyd demonstrations were at their peak. Yes, there were some issues - I think someone died at the hands of an officer or something. I loved watch the police dogs doing their best thing. They don’t show the dogs much on UK PD. Live PD was seen (and captured on photo) in several places, mostly in the 4
Mile Fork area, if I remember correctly.

[k9krap]

Damn, I’m watching the UK version. During car chases, a passenger in the chased car will jump out at rolling stops and throw heavy things like crowbars, drills and hammers at the chasing vehicles! It’s shocking! Better than guns but almost as dangerous.

Crash! Crash! Crash!

[Dave's Not Here Man]

In this country if you shoot at the cops while fleeing a traffic stop and the cops kill you, they'll make you into a symbol of virtue and demand justice for you getting your come-uppance exactly as you deserved.

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At the same time, if you stop and the cop gets afraid for any reason, they'll shoot you too if you're not the right skin color, so damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Just finished Talking With Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell. One interesting section was about the whole traffic stop/stop and frisk trend.
Turns out that a group of analysts studying crime determined that most crime in cities occurs in a very small area of the city. And in many cases, they could narrow it down to a few blocks.
So they tried an experiment in Kansas City. A group of officers were given extra training and told to patrol a 3-4 block area. Same area every night. They were to pull over every car they could, for even the most minor of infractions and talk to the driver and passengers - their objective was to find anything (again, even the smallest thing) that could justify searching the vehicle.

Meanwhile, the rest of the force went around their business and didn't change their procedures.

When they ended the study (I think 3 months later, but could have been longer), nothing had changed in the standard group. But the control group patrolling the small area had confiscated over 50% more illegal guns than had been found in the last year, and crime in the area went down around 25%. So a great success!!

But other jurisdictions didn't want to bother with the special training, or doing the work to narrow down the crime to the area that needed the extra work. So much easier to tell everyone to just stop everyone who they thought looked suspicious. Which is one of the many reasons we're where we are today

[k9krap]

This is the debut weekend of the revamped show on REELZ - it’s called “On Patrol” now. I forgot about it last night but switched it on today and am catching the replay (they always did this on A&E, too, showing old show as a lead-in to the new live show). They are starting out in some of the same locations as before: Berkeley, SC (Lt Danny Brown is now a Captain!), and 6 others I can’t remember. Right now I think they’re having technical issues because they are showing a lot of ads interspersed with dead air and black screens. This doesn’t bode well for the series if they can’t even show a rerun.

[k9krap]

So the live show just started, and dead air for nearly 60 seconds. 🤣🤣🤣

[k9krap]

Ugh. Too many fucking commercials. Plus the audio doesn’t line up with the speakers’ lips! Annoying! This is so Mickey Mouse.  I see they’re also in Nye County.  Vegas calls can be quite interesting sometimes.  There was a high speed chase in Beech Grove, Indiana at the show’s opening (once they got transmission back).  It was good but the driver escaped and now there canvassing the neighborhood because they think he is in one of the houses.  They say he ditched all the narcotics already.  Why keep looking if they have no evidence to arrest him?

[k9krap]

I just watched a K9 vehicle search and the dog was totally out of control! I mean, s/he was amped, bigly. Yipping and jumping around, there’s no way the handler could tell if she alerted. Okay - he could tell because they sit when they alert so it would be obvious but s/he didn’t even seem to be sniffing the car. Very odd to see such a badly handled/trained animal search.

[k9krap]

They don’t do foot chases in Nye County. It’s pretty obvious as most of those deputies are obese by any standard. I’m surprised a few can walk. But it’s the desert, and nobody runs in the desert.

[k9krap]

So a guy is sitting on a bench in a park near Vegas, drinking vodka and a woman walks up to him with her yellow lab and takes his bottle and phone. He tries to take them back and the dog bit him on his side. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, wait, rolling papers are involved as well.  🤣🤣

The deputy said people walk around with vodka in their water bottles all the time.  What a society we are. 

[k9krap]

I know you all are hanging by a thread waiting to hear the resolution to the dog bite case. Blue Benjamin, the dog, got 10 days in doggy jail. His human (drunk) could not provide proof or rabies vaccination so he is quarantined for 10 days. The drunk woman was being abusive, so it may be a blessing. However, poor Blue Benjamin is quite old. He was only protecting his human. 😖😖😖😢😢😢

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I read this as the owner not having proof of vaccination, so the owner had to be quarantined for 10 days!

[k9krap]

The sad thing is that if they did a titer on that dog I’m sure he has more than enough rabies antibodies. It’s sucks that titers are so fucking expensive. And Blue Benjamin definitely has some age on him. I felt bad for him - he was in a no win situation.

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You'd think that titers would have come down in price, seeing as keeping a dog in quarantine isn't cheap.

[k9krap]

Paterson, NJ looks like England with the cars parked on both sides of narrow streets making them difficult to navigate. And why only one T in Paterson?

[k9krap]

Started off exciting tonight, for a change. Chase in Richland County, involving a moped (so speeds were only 60-65) but he was driving on the wrong side of the 2 lane, divided highway at times. He ended up trying a right on red from the wrong side of the road and hit someone broadside. Threw him off the bike, obviously. Toddler in vehicle he hit wasn’t contained in a child seat, so was taken to hospital. She was covered in glass. He was seen texting during the chase. Idiot.

[k9krap]

Tonight they added a new location: Toledo, OH. First outing, a traffic stop resulted in arrests of 2 people wanted on multiple outstanding warrants (like 20!). About 45 minutes later, an active shooting at a high school football game. We were able to watch as they tracked down the shooters (4 dudes in a black charger). 2 are currently on the lam, but they have the other 2 in custody.

[k9krap]

Tonight’s best segments - kitten rescue! They spent a lot time filming a female deputy in Richland County, SC trying to get a tiny kitten that was crying under a car. She eventually crawled into the engine block, allowing her retrieval. She is now with a rescue.

[k9krap]

It’s still in the first hour and I’ve seen 2 foot chases in Nye County, NV! Runs in the desert require fitness, something a lot of these guys don’t have. 🤣🤣🤣

Edited to correct fist to first.  No fisting here.  Fist Fest turned me for completely.  

[k9krap]

The weather is so weird. Beech Grove, IN has a couple inches of snow on the ground!

[k9krap]

I think I listened to too much Howard. I turned on Cops and they’re arresting this guy and he’s screaming and saying, “yes, sir! Please sir!” It sounds so much like those Fist Fests or dominatrix sessions that Howard plays. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[k9krap]

It’s weird to see people in hats, hoodies and coats in FL. Daytona Beach?

[k9krap]

Beech Grove, Indiana domestic call: “he ran into my fist!” 🤣🤣🤣 Both parties had been drinking for 36 hours straight.


And it’s the annual Turkey Trot race in Daytona, which evidently involves classic cars. We have been seeing quite a few during the show, some aren’t typical “classics”.

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Hahahahahaha! When my brother was in 1st grade he hit a kid and broke his nose. Kid was on the floor bleeding.
Brother tells the principal that the other kid was running in the hall and he (my brother) held out his hand to 'slow him down' and the other kid ran into it. And it WORKED!!!!
How my brother stayed out of juvie as a kid is still a mystery to me....

[k9krap]

This woman was a hoot. They were trying to split them up for the night but every friend she called refused to come get her. 🤣🤣

[k9krap]

It looks like they are back in the area! They usually tape segments ahead of the “live” part that the intersperse between the ‘live segments. (None of it is truly live - there’s a significant delay and is noticeable especially during the DST when it’s light in SC but not here during a live segment.)

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I saw that.

[k9krap]

I don’t think it’s happening tonight. I broke speed records (for me, at least) to get downstairs by “roll call” time to see the Spotsylvania County intro (I have overslept several times this week - by hours, not minutes! This time change is still fucking with me. For some reason, awaking in pitch black is still causing disorientation.). No mention of any new locales and it’s OPLive has been on for an hour.