My IDIOT CITY and PROVINCE by: TOM ANGER ( me)
4:39 PM 22/10/09
The IDOTS OF MY PROVINCE!!
By: Tom ANGER ( Me)
When I read about something in the news on see it on TV that gets my blood boiling I just can't imagine of some of the idiot's in our Government can be elected or even sleep at night. What really makes me laugh is some of the ' Letter's to the Editor" people write in to our local newspapers. Where did these buffoons get there brains?? Lately it's been TASER this and Taser that!! Come on people give it a rest!!
On the subject of TASER's the Sun Newspapers comment editor Paul Rutherford captured the essence of what I would have said following Taser Internationsls amended deployment policy involving limited hard to hit target zones. Mind you I'm going to take their thoughts a bit further but first I want to go back in time to the days of real policing of the streets.In the 1990's the joys of OC spray were introduced for a means of non-lethal take down. OC spray ( oleoresin capsicum) then became the target of choice for the bleeding heart liberals who decreed it to be a lethal weapon. Much ado about nothing?? I don't know but you sure don't hear people bitching about it now!!! Most likely because people have grown used to the fact that it is a useful weapon in a LEO's ' bag of tricks' for non lethal force. Especially for street cops who have to deal with D n D's ( drunk and disorderly) on a daily basis in my City due to a high Aboriginal population.
Years before this great new ' tool' LEO's used to carry ' billy clubs' ( leather saps filled with lead shot pellets) and were last issued to law enforcement in my area in the early 80's. I remember them well. Handy little items and not too heavy on a duty belt. People back then decided it was a " weapon of thugs" so along came the trusty defender baton, ( which I prefere but hardly see anyone else carry these days).
It was issued primarily as a defensive tool meant to assist officers in executing their duties with an added margin of safety for them. Along came the usual complainers who called it a " deadly weapon in the hands of the ' evil empire'", oh well, you just can't please some folks!!
Along came the TASER ( X-26 still a favorite) and I can remember a letter to the editor of a newspaper which almost made me piss myself laughing. The writer had stated that basically since the cops were issued 2 foot long batons( collapsable) couldn't a six foot model be developed so they could ' whack' people from a safe distance, and NOT have to use something as dangerous as a TASER??? Okay folks, why don't we just get issued really nice fluffy pillows so they complain about an uprise in LEO's smothering their ' clients'?? Mean while while the LE compliants commitee's spend so damn much time with their heads up their butts trying to figure what we CAN and CAN NOT use as less than lethal force alternatives WE STILL CAN NOT get Judges to impose mandatory sentences for the perps that continue to use weapons of any sort!!
Now Topic number 2 that is really eating at me!!!
The Chief Accountant's Office for the City of Winnipeg has approved $930,000.00 to buff up the executive suites at City (shitty) Hall. Almost a million bucks to spiff up offices for the handful of Executives, while the City of Winnipeg Police Services is struggling like hell with a depleted budget , trying to maintain a level of service for the citizen's, and keep morale up amongst the troops which IS NOT AN EASY TASK!! The bone headed new Chief of Police let it slip to a reporter that he has instructed his officers to start issuing more citations to offenders to boost the revenue coffers. Good going Chief, the public always thought we had quotas, now YOU have confirmed it for them. The local news made this a front page story while Canadian Soldiers were being killed in Afghanistan!!
I have NEVER heard a police department acknowledge that the issuance of tickets was tied to its own budgetary needs, and I can't believe that idiot let it loose to the " vultures' of the media!
It took more than SIX YEARS for the City to cough up the dough and replace the archaic and dungeon like facilities that were District 4's offices in St. Boniface and Transcona, and build a new modern building on Dugald Road where, Hey, they have seperate facilities for the female LEO's now!!! Better offices, more holding cages, processing facilities where you don't have to turn on every light in the building to get a clear mug shot!!
Now let's get cracking on District 2 ( St. James) where their little office is overcrowed, the officers who work there have to park across the road in the Motel parking lot,( real safe for their POV's), The District 6 Office in Fort Garry, and the one closest to where my home is District 3. That one is so run down that I'm surprised that anybody working out of their doesn't have to be immunized against TB, Diptheria,and ahost of other ailments. The last time I was in there the smell of exhaust from the 2 car garage where you unload prisoners for processing attached to the main station, was through the entire building and the SDO out front was complaining of severe headche.
Geez, even the Main HQ Building ( Public Safety Building) downtown can not escape the delapidated building they have, and are even trying to strike a deal with Canada Post when they leave their current facilities to move to the new plant. I find that place to be so run down I won't take a car into the parkade, transport or not!! It's safer to walk on the street to the front door!!
So Mister CAO of the City, why didn't you just flip that $930,000 to a Department that can really use a pick me up?? Trutst me the Police Services would have put that money to much better use than the mahogeny toilet seats I'm sure you and the other big wigs are enjoying now!!!!
AND NOW A BRIGHTER NOTE ON L.E. !!!
Operation Roundup came to a successful end last Saturday. Assisted by the Winnipeg Police Service, Canada Border Services Agency, Manitoba Corrections, and the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team our combined efforts managed to get an amazing amount of drugs off the streets and 26 suspects arrested, who can't be named as of yet due to the formal charges not being finished by the Crown and beig layed in Court. But I can let you know that more than $350,000 in drugs and cash were seized in the morning raids across the Province, we also managed to get an assortment of weapons and stun guns off the streets. Also recovered was a bullet proof vest letting you know exactly what type of criminal element has been dealt with in the sweep. The suspects are facing a total of 127 charges running from drug possesion and distribution, proceeds of crime, and various weapons offences. The raids happened in the City of Winnipeg,where 14 properties were taken down, and 2 in rural Manitoba, (my area), including a property at Winnipeg Beach about 100 kms. North of the City. This leads to the end of a seven month investigation by the organized crime unit which had begun in April. HEAVILY ARMED SWAT teams were used in the execution of the warrants.
Here is the final tally of things seized:
48.5 ounces of Cocaine
15 pounds of Marijuana
180 Meth tablets
200 Ecstasy tablets
100 Morphine tablets
3 ounces of psilocybin ( magic mushrooms)
$252,960 in Canadian currency ( which is now the Crowns)
$40,000 of jewlery
4 vehichles
2 hydraulic presses ( manufacturing equipment for processing pills)
1- .32 cal. handgun
1- .45 cal. semi-auto handgun ( loaded)
1- 12 guage shotgun
3- Stun guns
2- Collapsable batons
1- Bulletproof Vest
1- Can of Bear Spray ( OC spray INDUSTRIAL STRENGHTH!!)
1- Sword
All in all not a bad days work I'd say. Just wait until I encounter somebody that tells me all LEO's do is sit at Tim Horton's and play video games!!!!
The IDOTS OF MY PROVINCE!!
By: Tom ANGER ( Me)
When I read about something in the news on see it on TV that gets my blood boiling I just can't imagine of some of the idiot's in our Government can be elected or even sleep at night. What really makes me laugh is some of the ' Letter's to the Editor" people write in to our local newspapers. Where did these buffoons get there brains?? Lately it's been TASER this and Taser that!! Come on people give it a rest!!
On the subject of TASER's the Sun Newspapers comment editor Paul Rutherford captured the essence of what I would have said following Taser Internationsls amended deployment policy involving limited hard to hit target zones. Mind you I'm going to take their thoughts a bit further but first I want to go back in time to the days of real policing of the streets.In the 1990's the joys of OC spray were introduced for a means of non-lethal take down. OC spray ( oleoresin capsicum) then became the target of choice for the bleeding heart liberals who decreed it to be a lethal weapon. Much ado about nothing?? I don't know but you sure don't hear people bitching about it now!!! Most likely because people have grown used to the fact that it is a useful weapon in a LEO's ' bag of tricks' for non lethal force. Especially for street cops who have to deal with D n D's ( drunk and disorderly) on a daily basis in my City due to a high Aboriginal population.
Years before this great new ' tool' LEO's used to carry ' billy clubs' ( leather saps filled with lead shot pellets) and were last issued to law enforcement in my area in the early 80's. I remember them well. Handy little items and not too heavy on a duty belt. People back then decided it was a " weapon of thugs" so along came the trusty defender baton, ( which I prefere but hardly see anyone else carry these days).
It was issued primarily as a defensive tool meant to assist officers in executing their duties with an added margin of safety for them. Along came the usual complainers who called it a " deadly weapon in the hands of the ' evil empire'", oh well, you just can't please some folks!!
Along came the TASER ( X-26 still a favorite) and I can remember a letter to the editor of a newspaper which almost made me piss myself laughing. The writer had stated that basically since the cops were issued 2 foot long batons( collapsable) couldn't a six foot model be developed so they could ' whack' people from a safe distance, and NOT have to use something as dangerous as a TASER??? Okay folks, why don't we just get issued really nice fluffy pillows so they complain about an uprise in LEO's smothering their ' clients'?? Mean while while the LE compliants commitee's spend so damn much time with their heads up their butts trying to figure what we CAN and CAN NOT use as less than lethal force alternatives WE STILL CAN NOT get Judges to impose mandatory sentences for the perps that continue to use weapons of any sort!!
Now Topic number 2 that is really eating at me!!!
The Chief Accountant's Office for the City of Winnipeg has approved $930,000.00 to buff up the executive suites at City (shitty) Hall. Almost a million bucks to spiff up offices for the handful of Executives, while the City of Winnipeg Police Services is struggling like hell with a depleted budget , trying to maintain a level of service for the citizen's, and keep morale up amongst the troops which IS NOT AN EASY TASK!! The bone headed new Chief of Police let it slip to a reporter that he has instructed his officers to start issuing more citations to offenders to boost the revenue coffers. Good going Chief, the public always thought we had quotas, now YOU have confirmed it for them. The local news made this a front page story while Canadian Soldiers were being killed in Afghanistan!!
I have NEVER heard a police department acknowledge that the issuance of tickets was tied to its own budgetary needs, and I can't believe that idiot let it loose to the " vultures' of the media!
It took more than SIX YEARS for the City to cough up the dough and replace the archaic and dungeon like facilities that were District 4's offices in St. Boniface and Transcona, and build a new modern building on Dugald Road where, Hey, they have seperate facilities for the female LEO's now!!! Better offices, more holding cages, processing facilities where you don't have to turn on every light in the building to get a clear mug shot!!
Now let's get cracking on District 2 ( St. James) where their little office is overcrowed, the officers who work there have to park across the road in the Motel parking lot,( real safe for their POV's), The District 6 Office in Fort Garry, and the one closest to where my home is District 3. That one is so run down that I'm surprised that anybody working out of their doesn't have to be immunized against TB, Diptheria,and ahost of other ailments. The last time I was in there the smell of exhaust from the 2 car garage where you unload prisoners for processing attached to the main station, was through the entire building and the SDO out front was complaining of severe headche.
Geez, even the Main HQ Building ( Public Safety Building) downtown can not escape the delapidated building they have, and are even trying to strike a deal with Canada Post when they leave their current facilities to move to the new plant. I find that place to be so run down I won't take a car into the parkade, transport or not!! It's safer to walk on the street to the front door!!
So Mister CAO of the City, why didn't you just flip that $930,000 to a Department that can really use a pick me up?? Trutst me the Police Services would have put that money to much better use than the mahogeny toilet seats I'm sure you and the other big wigs are enjoying now!!!!
AND NOW A BRIGHTER NOTE ON L.E. !!!
Operation Roundup came to a successful end last Saturday. Assisted by the Winnipeg Police Service, Canada Border Services Agency, Manitoba Corrections, and the National Weapons Enforcement Support Team our combined efforts managed to get an amazing amount of drugs off the streets and 26 suspects arrested, who can't be named as of yet due to the formal charges not being finished by the Crown and beig layed in Court. But I can let you know that more than $350,000 in drugs and cash were seized in the morning raids across the Province, we also managed to get an assortment of weapons and stun guns off the streets. Also recovered was a bullet proof vest letting you know exactly what type of criminal element has been dealt with in the sweep. The suspects are facing a total of 127 charges running from drug possesion and distribution, proceeds of crime, and various weapons offences. The raids happened in the City of Winnipeg,where 14 properties were taken down, and 2 in rural Manitoba, (my area), including a property at Winnipeg Beach about 100 kms. North of the City. This leads to the end of a seven month investigation by the organized crime unit which had begun in April. HEAVILY ARMED SWAT teams were used in the execution of the warrants.
Here is the final tally of things seized:
48.5 ounces of Cocaine
15 pounds of Marijuana
180 Meth tablets
200 Ecstasy tablets
100 Morphine tablets
3 ounces of psilocybin ( magic mushrooms)
$252,960 in Canadian currency ( which is now the Crowns)
$40,000 of jewlery
4 vehichles
2 hydraulic presses ( manufacturing equipment for processing pills)
1- .32 cal. handgun
1- .45 cal. semi-auto handgun ( loaded)
1- 12 guage shotgun
3- Stun guns
2- Collapsable batons
1- Bulletproof Vest
1- Can of Bear Spray ( OC spray INDUSTRIAL STRENGHTH!!)
1- Sword
All in all not a bad days work I'd say. Just wait until I encounter somebody that tells me all LEO's do is sit at Tim Horton's and play video games!!!!
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