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Posted: 7/7/2002 6:27:39 PM EDT
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flip around the last two words in your title and you'll see what they're getting at.
it's a conspiracy. |
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Posted: 7/7/2002 7:06:34 PM EDT
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They do it to attract people.
Some of the people it may attract will want to rise to the top. There are guys who are happy if they have met every challenge or at least need to try. Guys may look at that and say, I'm gonna be on SWAT, or on air ops as a Medic, or K9 or detective or Dive Team, some guys have skills, etc. The last thing you need on a department is a bunch of guys who are retired on duty. Are the US Marines looking for just anybody? There is a reason why they like to attract very motivated and discplined individuals. I haven't seen the commercial so I can't comment on the desert ops in full camo part. |
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Posted: 7/7/2002 7:14:36 PM EDT
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The commercials they are showing in New Mexico and west Texas are showing them shooting full-auto M-16's even though they normally carry semi AR's in the patrol cars.
Guess that in P.C. Krapifornia, full-auto just isn't acceptable. marsh |
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Posted: 7/7/2002 7:25:11 PM EDT
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Quoted: The commercials they are showing in New Mexico and west Texas are showing them shooting full-auto M-16's even though they normally carry semi AR's in the patrol cars. Guess that in P.C. Krapifornia, full-auto just isn't acceptable. marsh What's your point? Full auto is perfectly acceptable in the part of CA I live in. It's just nearly impossible to legally own one. |
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Posted: 7/7/2002 7:39:24 PM EDT
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Just an attempt at humor. If I offended you, please accept my humble apologies. In my experience here for past ten years, NM State Police are pretty good bunch of guys.
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Posted: 7/7/2002 8:11:37 PM EDT
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Just look out for the Albequerque PD - they have been killing more folks than any other department in the country (I don't know if they needed killin').
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Posted: 7/7/2002 10:44:59 PM EDT
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Let's just say that the NM State Police have quite a rep with Law Enforcement in Arizona for one thing...
If you happen to be in a pursuit in Arizona and get close to the NM border, don't stray across the state line... You might get in the firing line. You see the NM State Police have a no pursuit policy... That is, no pursuits go very far. They just shoot the car until it stops.... No kidding. So as for the full auto stuff, not surprising at all. |
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Posted: 7/8/2002 2:21:08 AM EDT
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It's probably no different than the Navy, with their commercials depicting swabbies visiting exotic foreign locales and meeting pretty little foreign hotties, when in reality, you could end up spending your entire hitch in San Diego playing with a filing cabinet.
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Posted: 7/8/2002 4:45:10 AM EDT
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I saw it yesterday. Not a bad commercial for a Police Department. Virginia Beach was hurting for officers a while back, so they made an infomercial. It had to be THE BEST commercial I had ever seen for any municipal PD. They used the regular officers for the vocie overs, but went into much detail as it was a 30min show. I mean they covered all sorts of things like what the basic job was, and showed them in real life doing the things they do. It then covered the requirements and who you needed to talk to.
The thing that further impressed me was it also covered the various other portions of the PD so you knew what your carreer progression would be like as well. It showed details on SWAT, K-9, Air, Water, EOD, Dive and other units within the department. It even went into brief details on what was required for those areas and what the duty entailed. To their credit they were obviously targeting those people that were interested in not only police work, but just what it takes to make it a career. The infomercial was not all SWAT raids and exciting stuff, but none of it was too boring to watch. In the end I came away with a much better understanding of what my city's police do and how they do it, and I was never interested in being a cop. I just happened to surf into it on a local channel. It was basically a vehicle for both informing the public of what they do and getting those interested to apply. All in all it was a well directed advertisement. Ross |
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Posted: 7/8/2002 4:58:40 AM EDT
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Well, I guess I'll chime in here. Just my opinion...
But, I do know most of those guys in the NMSP commercial. I am not an NMSP officer either, not in LE at all for that matter. But, I have trained with some of them. Having friends in certain positions does have its benefits... That commercial is the same one they have been using for the last few years now. It's just like the Navy using commerials entirely made up of footage of Navy SEALs. Only in the NMSP, you actually have a pretty good chance of obtaining the positions shown in th clips. If you are willing to work extremely hard. Say what you want, but the NMSP is extremely hard working, good people. I know there are always one or two bad apples in the bunch, but I would put them up against any other state LE agency in the nation. They have a very small force to cover an extremely large state. Their rookie training is probably the most extensive in the nation for one reason: They spend much of their time completely cut off from other officers, except by radio. They rely on themselves! Don't pick at NMSP officers for some commercial on TV. It's not their call how it looks. They just show up and do what they are told. As for the Albuquerque police: The reason they shoot people is because there are plenty of people that need shooting in Albuquerque!! I have the oporitunity to shoot and ride-along with the APD SWAT unit. They are great guys doing a great job. Albuquerque is not a nice town. It is defenitely crime-ridden and dangerous. I always try to remind people of something CLint Smith once said-"There are people that need shooting!" |
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