LCSO Sergeant Jester

Dang alright thanks

I use Photoshop. Took a photoshop elective, already knew more than the teacher so she basically just let me piss around in the class. Might take it again this year. Though still :P How do I make the words slanted?

What fonts do you use the most? And I saw a speed art video on youtube of a guy making a skin (He's no longer active or else I'd ask him) but he moves the letters so they'd be slanted. How do I do that?

Don't know if this is the right subject thread but seems like it since it ties in with almost anything and is computer related. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone has a font pack or something like that for people who skin. I'm starting to love to skin now, though I just don't have many good fonts nor do I know what fonts to look for. Any chance anyone could help me out?! Thanks, Jester.

It's not a budget thing... It's just how some departments are. Tasers aren't always non-lethal. I think it was a nearby town (Might not have been, it's probably been 7 years since the incident) but a officer used a taser on a drunk & disorderly and ended up killing the person because he either wasn't trained the best on it (Mind you, small town...) or just didn't know what he was doing at all. LAPD is in the testing of some officers having tasers last I heard, They used to never have officers have tasers... And the ones that did, theirs was in the actual patrol car. So if they needed it they had to run back to their car and grab it hoping it'll work and turn out for the best. Reality is reality. Shit doesn't work 100% of the time. Shit sometimes does work pretty often. Situations change and can have multiple different outcomes. Don't second guess a situation if you weren't there.

Yup! Talk to you later man, great arguments! lol

lol wait wut? I'm wanting to become an officer, and I do some basic training with my department. (Felony traffic stops, hand cuffing and all sorts of other basic things, taser training included, along with a police "challenge" week which allows us to go to a shooting range and test our ability under pressure or something. (Mainly cause it's just fun) plus we meet with SWAT, and K9 and other stuff) Right, I know. I'm just stating our officer will not ever go unarmed until everyone else does. (Unless we get some liberal shithead as a political leader. Then we're all our SOL) but UK Police budgets... Are they all together or something? How does it work? Are the police departments mostly all together? We have all sorts of different things, and different ways budgets are done. Small towns = Small tax = Small budgets for police. We also have local police, county sheriffs, and state wide police. Not counting FBI, DEA, ATF and all the other kind of feds. And like I said, alot of some of the budgets go to the actual politic leaders, and for their campaigns to have them re-elected.

And does this include how differently things are in the two countries? One outlawed guns for the large majority of its citizens while the other allows people to walk freely with an AR15 (Which is usually the best rifle a regular patrol officer has access to...) Perhaps it maintains around the fact that the societies between the two are completely different as well. In the UK there isn't (I'm sure of it. Not factually but logically) as many "sovereign citizens", "cop blockers" or just all around assholes. I'm sure there is some in the UK but definitely not as many as the US. People in the US just hate officers more than the people in the UK about their officers. You can say it's because of the "distrust" but that's honestly crap. It's the way they're told, and how they think. Our news agencies usually center around police involved shootings... Almost never about the good things. They'll report an officer shot a person one week but won't report the good thing another officer did. My first ride along, we pulled over a vehicle with expired tags and it was an elderly female and she had her tags in her car but she's too old to be getting down on her knees and changing out the plates so we offered to change them for us... Obviously that never made it to the news. US Officers are never going to go unarmed until the general public goes unarmed... And does that include the gang bangers who carry all the time? I can tell you right now, they outway the actual law abiding gun owners. And if we do outlaw guns like the UK, what's to stop the cartels or drug smugglers to start smuggling guns? And what's to stop more events from happening? My department has a SWAT team which can be considered like your guys' specialized armed units however if there was a shooting, it'd take them ages to actually get to it. And if they patrolled it'd be like K9 units... One may already be on a call, and can't leave so you're in a gun battle by yourself without a gun... Our departments don't have nearly as much budgets as some others do. UK I'm not sure about their budgets but ours suck major ass... We can barely keep regular patrol officers on the cut, specialized armed units would mostly be out of the question. That's not really what I'm trying to say... I'm trying to explain that if there's a armed and dangerous or literally anything and you think they won't obey your lawful orders, you go for your taser and they end up doing something that hurts yourself, themselves or someone else Guess who's fault that is? Plus if you pull a gun guess who's more likely to comply, it doesn't even have to be loaded or used. I understand half of what you guys are saying and agree to it but... It depends on the situation, the officer and everything and everyone involved. Outcomes can be better or worse if used by a taser than a gun, same with a gun. Pulling out a gun can better or worsen a situation. Officers are trained on how to deal with things but that doesn't mean their training is actually going to be helpful. Let's say they train you to deal with a armed and dangerous person that's been spotted with a pistol... You handle it the way you're trained good for you. Now let's say you encounter two or three people with machine guns (Like mini-uzis or something... Isn't that hard to believe, there's some gangs in KCMO that regularly use those type of guns) and were just spotted jacking someone's car at gun point... How do you handle it? Your academy training didn't include it. You do what you think is best.

When they pull up the suspect has his arms around the officers neck and head in an attempt to use a choke hold which is a deadly force... Cause that can usually break a neck, wind pipe, all sorts of things. Officers are trained to use choke holds but they're trained in it, and know what it can do and how to do it... This suspect obviously ain't an officer and isn't trying to take the officer into custody... He's trying to kill him. Just the choke hold alone is a deadly force authorization, not to mention the officer screaming "Shoot him shoot him shoot him" Had the responding officers known that the officer discharged his weapon, had a choke hold used against him and a few other things it would of been a gun for sure rather than a taser... All the responding officers knew was that he was just being assaulted which in their mind was probably just a few little punchs and the officer took control but obviously that isn't what happened. It's a information thing. They used the taser because they didn't know about all the other stuff because the citizen that was calling the dispatch letting them know what was going on, was more busy screaming at the suspect to "stop" which ain't gonna do shit but put her in the line of sights for him once he kills the cop. Tasers aren't a thing you should use all the time, and shouldn't be your main use of force choice, your gun should be. You kind of remind me of those kind of people who thinks officers shouldn't have guns, only tasers... An unrealistic person.

Actually alot of British officers are starting to carry pistols. They're testing it out. Right an the difference between how british officers use of force is different from ours is that our officers actually have to go up and deal with the suspects while the officers are armed, and usually british citizens don't have firearms themselves. And your guys' armed officers have rifles usually not pistols in their hands, and they don't interact like this officer did. This officer was trying to arrest the person and got surprise attacked and that's how things started going down hill real quickly, with british officers ya'll usually have two officers a car and don't have guns. This isn't the case. Officers can't make sure the suspect is "under control" before approaching... That's unrealistic in situations like in this video. Right ben, that's kind of what I'm trying to explain. It differs on how US deals with situations than UK officers. You're officers are two to a car (This department in the video has one to a car) and this officer alone is armed and fighting to not only stop the attack but also to try and keep his weapons from being used on himself. And then there's the case that UK officers make sure people are "under control" before approaching... lol I'm sorry but that just doesn't make much sense. The officer in this video clearly thought he was in control, and was handcuffing the guy and then gets attacked... That could easily happen in both US and UK only difference is in the UK there'd be another officer fighting the guy too... Maybe even a citizen would help out. In the US this officer is alone, fighting for a few minutes (Which is tough as shit when you're in fight or flight and you're adrenaline is pumping your heart so fast in a life or death situation like here) and no one helps him... Just screams at the suspect to "stop" lol Like that's gonna help Ma'am. Right... I completely agree that it's dumb to have one officer to a car in a large area like here but that's how budgets get dealt with since politics still have to use some of budget money to fund their own campaign... Where I live, I think every department does 1 to a car but there's alot of nearby units unlike this video... Highway patrol and smaller towns I feel the worst about... I thought about being a state trooper (Kansas highway patrolmen) but If I ever got into a fight or gun-battle... I'd be completely fucked. Probably end up dead in a matter of minutes.

lol Thanks guess it was just stupidity.

I haven't uploaded anything in a long time so excuse my stupidness if that's the case, but I can't seem to find the upload button or even how to upload anything for GTAIV... I've got some skins I'd love to release but can't figure out how? :/ Thanks, Jester.

You still want a Chicago Pack? I got one from a previous pack... I helped make it and made a large majority of it, so I have the freedom to give it out to people. Plus the community closed and changed to AST or something.

That may be right... But he did stay in the fight for about 4 minutes. And in training to become a officer you fight off someone trying to go for your gun for 2 minutes and that's draining and shit so it's fantastic he was able to stay in the fight that long. Kept the guy from using his gun and when the officer used his gun in an attempt to stop the fight he was smart enough to eject the clip and render the gun useless.

Than you wouldn't be mad if someone assaulted, and tried to kill your dad? Only got the minimum sentence. I certainly would. I don't even know your dad but I'd still be mad. True, just because I talk to officers daily and learn all sorts of policing techniques doesn't mean I know how to police but it does help me though they've all got major police backgrounds. Former Marine and former Counter-terrorism for our police department, a former Las Vegas Metro officer and a former deputy Sheriff. I talk to them daily, ask them questions daily. They usually are police based questions. How would they handle something. What I should do If I encounter something like this and so on. They tell me how policing really is without the PR bs I don't think I should get killed because of stupid shit like this. I may very well be killed by stupid shitheads like this but I want to know that my death wouldn't be in vain. I've tried Fire & EMS and it just ain't for me. I did a year of training with them and just simply isn't my thing. I did a few weeks of police training and fell in love with it. Policing is what I'm meant for. If you knew me in person you'd know I'm passionate for it. 53 hours.

I'm going to post a link to a video. This is from a Former deputy in Sacramento CA, and has been all sorts of other things ranging from deputy sheriff to US Marshall. You say 20 years is much for attempted murder... This was obviously a attempted murder not a assault (Well assault is happening but it's an assault turning into a murder). The guy in this video is lucky as shit the officer didn't hit him when he fired his gun which was the intent to kill him to stop the situation. That already shows that he decided it was a deadly force situation. 20 years is petty. People do more than 20 for drugs. Here's the fact of a Attempted murder charge which SHOULD be the charge this shit head gets, I'm not entirely sure what charges he's getting but this should definitely be it if not already " First-degree attempted murder carries greater penalties and often means a life sentence with the possibility of parole. Offenders typically spend at least 10 years in prison, although mandatory minimum sentences for attempting to murder a public official may be 10 to 15 years. " In this video he talks about people going for guns. If this suspect had actually gotten that gun (If the officer wasn't smart enough to eject the clip so he couldn't use the gun after he fired it) than not only would the officer be dead but more than likely the bystanders that were yelling for the guy to stop hitting the officer. It's obvious as shit this guy was trying to kill the officer. Assault 1st degree is a petty sentence. This guy didn't run during the fight. He kept fighting the officer. Using deadly force himself on the officer (Choking is considered deadly force. Watch the video) and didn't stop when the officers showed up or when he heard sirens because he knew that he was going to jail. They knew who he was but he knew he was going to kill that cop or atleast try. I understand my anger gets the best of me, but I know very well that this could help me with saving my life or another person's. It gives me the fight back if I ever am in a fight, gun battle or helping someone from a burning car or wreck. Anger and fear is what can help officers during a situation. https://www.policeone.com/police-trainers/articles/5994546-Stressful-encounters-Why-anger-and-fear-can-be-good/ I also understand that being as you don't want to become an officer you may not understand an officer's perspective fully. I ride with officers all the time in my city, sometimes in my home town both are two totally different places (Large City VS. Small town) Though their policing usually is the same. I hang out with officers almost everyday at school, usually for an hour or more. We talk about all kinds of things, Sad things, happy things. Usually police work. The day after our KCKPD Detective was killed, I had to come into school to find out by seeing my officers wearing the mourning bang around their badge. Officers may get tempered at times or heated because of something simple "like a video or topic" about another officer being assaulted, possibly killed. But that's just a matters of how they react. I react mad because I see myself in 5 years as that officer (Though I would hopefully handle it differently so it wouldn't come to a fight, but I'm not going to second guess that officer cause he did what he thought was right). Officers are asked to put their life on the line for the citizens they protect but they don't, and shouldn't get killed because of stupid shit like this. This officer was nearly killed because this shithead has a felony theft warrant. He could of easily just ran after the first punch. This whole situation would of been different. Had he ran I would of not been so harsh, I wouldn't of said I'd put a bullet in his head but he choose to try and kill that officer so I choose to get mad at this POS.