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The ongoing political argument is all about who's worse to have in power: Assad or ISIS? Even America seems to be leaning towards not taking another dictator out of power because it keeps making things even worse. More or less giving freedom to people who don't want it badly enough to fight for keeping it. Older video, but somewhat relevant: https://youtu.be/ECfKaUXPmYc?t=1m33s The whole video is good, but 1:33 ties in directly to what I just wrote.

We might be thinking of different episodes, then. The one I references is from season 28 (this season). Hard to believe the show is that old, isn't it? I think it's tied with The Simpsons for the oldest show currently aired on TV.

There's no issues that I've seen or heard of with Windows 10 and RageHook. Upgrading to Windows 10 will give you access to the latest Direct X version which is nice, and if you can do it as part of a free upgrade, go for it. Otherwise it's basically identical to Windows 8/7. They just took the tile menu that used to take up the entire screen and they shoved it into the start bar instead, made a few GUI adjustments to catch up to MacOSX, Android/ChromeOS and Linux, and added in a voice search assistant; Cortana.

I'm sure most of us have seen this news already: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/11/24/reports-turkey-shoots-russian-jet/76299190/ Turkey is alleging that a Russian attack aircraft moved into their airspace and was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet. The two pilots bailed out and parachuted towards the ground. It's been reported and supposedly also visible in a video that they were both shot at while parachuting, one of them was killed mid-flight by the men firing at him, still strapped into his parachute. Some Turkish officials claim that both pilots are alive but will not give further details, Turkish rebel groups suggest they were both killed. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the shooting of the jet "a stab in the back". The U.S. seems to be keeping its distance, but in an official statement said: "Turkey has a right to defend their air space". When questioned by a reporter during a live press conference at The White House in Washington D.C. with the question "Isn't America's policy to scramble jet fighters to escort foreign airplanes away from our country's airspace before firing on it? Why didn't Turkey?" the White House spokesperson simply stated that he can't comment because not all of the facts are known yet. Turkey is a NATO country that is supposedly allied with us, but if Russia decides to pick a serious fight, I have my doubts that we'll back them. Some people are panicking, thinking that this will mean World War III. I doubt that, but it's certainly a problem that needs to be solved. Russia flies in that area due to its bombing runs on a country with a terrorist group in it that Turkey is supposed to be fighting too. That being said, supposedly Russia has been f*cking around with Turkish F-16's by locking their radar onto them for minutes at a time.

No, different state, different department, different woman. The woman on the COPS segment had no cruiser blocking her upon initial contact. They had to chase her for a bit. Once they got her out of the car she denied being drunk and screamed that she was a nurse, etc.

Combat maneuvers of any kind are difficult to get 100% right in the real world. Whether an action you take as a police officer is a take-down, a choke, a hold or any kind of strikes; it's considered physical violence. You're well within your right to point out that the cop failed to get a secure choke, but I'd like to propose a question to you: Could you do any better? For that matter, could any of the other cops at the scene do any better? Chances are the answer to either one of those is "no". The reason Eric Garner died is because of his decision to resist arrest. Does that imply that he deserves to die for resisting? Absolutely not, but every time you pick a fight with a police officer that's a risk you run. The fact that a police officer has a gun strapped to the side of his hip should serve as a reminder to you and everyone else that any contact with a stranger could be a potentially lethal encounter for him. There's a reason police are taught tactics to try and end an altercation as soon as possible. The academy does not teach you to be a tournament martial arts fighter. It teaches you the least violent means for physically forcing someone to be in a position where you can put handcuffs on. Police are not supermen, and as I explained before, situations practiced in the martial arts studios or the academy do not happen the same way as they do on the street. Ask yourself these questions that Dominic Izzo pointed out in a different video: Are you indoors or outdoors? Whats the weather like? Is it snowing, is it cold, is it raining, is it hot? Are you on a flat surface, are you standing on a hill? Which side of the hill are you on? Is it dark out, is it light outside? Do you have a flashlight? If so, do you have a place to put that flashlight on your belt? Do you have the theoretical minimum distance of 10 feet to switch weapons in the event of having to escalate or de-escalate the scale of force you use? Are you within distance where someone can take away your weapon? Is the person you're facing bigger than you? Do they weigh more than you? Are you in front of them, are you in back? Are they determined not to go to jail? All of these questions have to be answered in your head within a couple of seconds before you use a method to force someone to submit to arrest when they are determined not to go to jail. I challenge you or anyone else to make the best decision 100% of the time. On the scale of force, the police officers who dealt with Eric Garner used the least amount of force possible. You have hand-to-hand, pepper spray, baton, taser and gun. Pepper spray is meant to lessen the threat of a fight, not eliminate it. Batons should be something people like you should be even more against than a choke hold, as they'll have to wail on someone his size for quite some time, leaving welts all over his body, potentially fracturing bones and would look like a great police brutality clip on TV. Tasers may or may not work depending on if both probes hit, if they penetrate through his clothing and if he's not high. But if they did work, his head could very likely bounce off of the concrete resulting in a concussion or worse. A gun would result in severe injury or death, and nobody wants that. Eric's decision to resist arrest killed him in the sense that a healthy, young individual who resisted arrest would not have had issues with that kind of stress being put on his body. Garner had heart disease, asthma, was morbidly obese and supposedly had just broken up a fight. His heart rate would likely have been up due to his apprehension at the thought of going to jail, his parasympathetic nervous system would have been dumping all kinds of chemicals into his body with his fight or flight reaction, and unfortunately if airway was indeed an issue; the temporary weight of the police combined with the pressure of his adipose tissue (fat) working against his own chest rise and fall could indeed make it hard to breathe. However, if you watch the video; he's only pinned for a short duration, and is left on his side in the recovery position without anybody on top of him; still breathing and complaining. Having a heart attack in the ambulance would make sense considering his medical conditions and the stresses he put himself through by resisting arrest. The death of an individual at the hands of another is called homicide, so his death is a homicide by definition but this is not the first degree murder accusation that people like to paint this incident with. This is an unfortunate case of resisting arrest gone horribly wrong, but blaming the police and only the police isn't fair. If he had put his hands behind his back and went to jail, bailed out and got a lawyer to drop the charge; he'd still be here today (provided he didn't have a heart attack doing something else physically stressful or having his next cheeseburger). In that sense, Eric Garner killed himself when he decided to resist arrest. It's a gamble you take. In closing I'd like to ask you, though; why are you bringing Chris Christie or Peter King into this discussion? Are you trying to insinuate that anybody who sides with the police on this issue is a Republican? Are you trying to use the race card? I don't understand. You've been on this forum long enough to know better. Police brutality accusations bring debates. That's true of any public forum, not just this one.

Seattle, Tacoma, Pierce County and the State Troopers all used Federal Signal Delta sirens as of the mid 2000's. I'm not sure if those departments have updated their sirens since then. The state police car in the first video link sounds like the same one, but the cop only uses the wail, not the yelp or priority tone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzBgM8cvAP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPL7hV2ERQ <------ Federal Signal Deltas involving Pierce County & State Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSoYrJJwTE4 GTA IV has a good one. Prophet made an okay GTA V version but the priority tone isn't complete.

Ah sh*t, not this again. This dead horse has been beaten so much already. Bringing this crap up is only going to cause arguments. There are two types of chokes used; a blood choke and an airway choke. The one most police and martial artists use is a blood choke. The point of the rear naked choke in particular is to slow down the flow of blood through the carotid arteries to the brain, causing unconsciousness in a few seconds, rendering the victim unable to flail around and fight. And airway choke takes significantly longer, would not cause rapid loss of consciousness and would require a lot of strength to put and hold enough pressure on the airway to make someone lose consciousness. The choke hold used in the video was an attempt at a blood choke, but it was not properly applied because Garner was much bigger than the cop trying to perform it, and he was actively resisting on an open sidewalk in the real world. Not in a martial arts studio with instructions not to move. If you truly could not breathe, you would not be able to constantly shout "I can't breathe", because you require air in order to speak loudly after several words are uttered expending what air you have left over in your lungs. The choke hold in this video was released within a matter of seconds, with Garner still talking after it was released. Garners final moments were also not caught in the video. His final moments were in the back of an ambulance where he suffered a heart attack. Please watch this video before any replies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fbR9NbuycY

In Soviet Russia, police dog trains you!

No, you're getting that wrong. But a new police officer receives what I would deem far too low levels of both. The academy teaches you what more or less amount to wrestling takedowns and a few pressure points, along with a couple of headlocks or sleeper holds. Length spent with an FTO may vary by department; but most I've talked to say 6 weeks. One man patrols make a lot more sense in towns that are small or even large but don't have as much crime. Two police officers in a patrol car is safer during encounters with a criminal, but you're cutting the area you're able to watch for crime in half, and doubling the time it takes to get backup from another unit or transport from another unit. A single police officer is usually sufficient. The main areas where you'll see two to a car is in larger, crime ridden cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Even some large cities with high crime rate still have one officer per car in a lot of cases. Miami FL, Atlanta GA, Detroit MI, Newark NJ, Kansas City MO/KS and Stockton CA; and many other cities I won't bother to put down here have one man patrol cars. Now do some of these departments have a mixture of two man cars and one man cars? Sure. But keep in mind all of the cities I mentioned are within the top 30 cities for the most murders in the United States, so they aren't exactly safe areas to patrol. No town I've ever lived in, or any town near where I've lived in has had two man patrol cars with the exception of Boston MA for obvious reasons. It's a city with enough assault, robbery, drug and homicide crime to warrant having another officer with you. But again; it's a mixture of one man and two man cars. If you're patrolling the Jamaica Plains, Charlestown or Roxbury suburbs as an example; you better have another Boston P.D. officer with you or you could be in big trouble real fast. Just 10-30 minutes north of those areas will be nice clean universities (with the obvious exception of "methadone mile") and a bustling city center with cobble stone streets, nice clean businesses and a largely safe metro area with a couple of sports stadiums and plenty of places to shop or eat at right on the waterfront.

There was an attack in Mali. It's was a different terrorist group, but still backed by Islamic values of martyrdom and killing westerners.

Americans being uneducated and entitled? Say it isn't so! Yeah, I know. A lot of my fellow countrymen are idiots. Russia's another great example of what you're talking about. They can pull you over for no reason and search without probable cause. Arrests for felony offenses often include a complimentary beating or kick to the head if they get you on the ground, too. There are lots of accusations of corruption as well, and you'll sometimes see Russian citizens that not only have front facing dash cams for insurance, but also window facing dash cams to record police encounters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOsdsTXAt-g These guys have me singing "God Bless America" every time I watch this video.

That could be two different sirens. Not sure about the wail since I don't really study any fire engine or ambulance sirens. The yelp is the same one used by Fort Worth Texas Police and Corpus Christi police. That much I can tell you. You can hear a little of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wND19tIy_zU I want to say its a Federal Signal or a Whelen, but it sounds almost identical to an SA-400 but just a hair slower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL_LsXoZSKE It's also similar to a Whelen 295 but it's a hair lower pitched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_yWYrHBH-M Someone who studies these more closely than me will probably know.

No, that's not what I meant. A fire arm should be used as a last resort when a cop is in clear and imminent danger of death or significant bodily harm. Very rarely will there be a fight scenario where a cop gets to switch between all of his weapons one at a time. Usually they have one chance for a single non lethal means to subdue someone, then they have to switch to the gun if it doesn't work and they're still in fear for their life. Three feet of distance is technically the safe space where if you're beyond it, you can't be easily disarmed. Ten feet is supposed to be the distance where a cop can put away a non lethal weapon and then un-holster and draw his/her gun and fire a shot off. That would take one hell of a steel nerved cop in an ideal scenario for that to happen with any degree of accuracy. If you're on the ground getting your face beat in, a taser might work if you can get it drawn and get a body shot, but that's a big 'maybe'. Pepper spray won't help you because it's going to hit you just as much as the suspect. A baton is not an option while pinned on the ground. The only solution if you're certain you can't regain control is to use your gun. That scenario has to be assessed, a decision has to be made and the action needs to be taken almost instantly. That problem can result in a very bad result, very quickly. The problem is that officers can act with deadly force on fear of safety justifiably because they aren't well trained enough to feel confident in an actual fight where only fists or melee weapons are used. If I was a well trained martial artist cop with a baton but no taser or OC spray, had 10 feet of distance and was up against two people with no backup for 30 seconds, I'd feel confident enough to stand my ground with the baton until it got taken away from me or until I was on the ground looking up at someones fist. With two people pinning me, I'm not getting up and I most likely won't be able to keep control of my weapon for long if at all. If that were to happen, the gun's going to get used. If I had little to no combat training, my gun would be out when dealing with two people. Not my baton. That is one of the many set ups for failure due to lack of training. Believe me Bubba, the money for that extensive training exists. It's just not given to police departments. In the same way that it exists but is not given to schools, or college students, or elderly people, or the uninsured, etc. Because we're too busy bailing out large corporations and spending unlimited amounts of money on the U.S. military which has a budget larger than the next 10 biggest armies combined. Even without government financing, I think cops who want to feel confident on the job should take it upon themselves to get better. Go join a martial arts class, ideally one taught by a cop or ex-cop. Take some psychology and sociology courses, even if they're online. Take some Spanish lessons. Take an EMT course. These aren't things for the wealthy. Anybody with a cops salary can afford to do these things. It's going to make you a better cop as well as a better person. It may even earn you a promotion easier because you'll be better qualified than everyone else in your department.

Maybe. They still can't tie it to anything credible according to the article. Some of the footage has also been used in previous videos, apparently. I don't make a habit of watching terrorist propaganda videos.

It's just you. Americans and other westerners that know how to use western computer equipment attempt to join ISIS all the time. Some of them succeed.

I agree that there is absolutely nothing wrong with more training, and I firmly believe that police officers are severely under trained for what they need to do. By that I do not mean that they don't know how to use a gun properly or how to articulate most laws and statutes, etc. But consider the following: -Professional martial artists can require years in order to get to a high ranking belt, indicating that they are very proficient in hand to hand combat. Police officers only get a few weeks at the academy, often their only background in one on one "combat" being on a college or high school football or wrestling team. Both of these help, but are not guarantees you will be able to overpower somebody or take someone into custody who actually knows how to fight. If you want police officers to be truly safe, and reduce the amount of times they feel the need to use the weapons on their belt; they should be much better at hand to hand combat. Feeling a lack of control in a fight will lead you to use deadly force sooner. -While police academies require that you pass certain fitness requirements in order to pass the academy; these requirements are largely unrelated to the physical demands of your job, and for the most part they are not upheld once you graduate. YouTube celebrity Police officer Dominic Izzo touches on this briefly when talking about how U.S. police can win back the public: By being extremely professional, holding yourself to the highest standard and putting procedure and the law above everything else like you swore to when hired. A lot of people do not upkeep their fitness after being hired. Some departments have a policy where if you can no longer do your job well, they'll give you a warning and if you do not improve, they'll fire you, but too few of them do. Watch this in regards to my last paragraph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMdGqpU1dUs -While I don't agree that every cop needs to be a law major; statutes specific to your city, county, state (whatever your patrol area is) need to be known like the back of your hand. This helps regarding questioning somebody properly about a crime, handling gun rights activists who open carry, when you can and cannot search someones property or enter a building, when you can or cannot detain somebody and how to handle people who are indeed law students or lawyers themselves. Many cops don't actually know what I just outlined anywhere near as well as they should simply because they don't have to, and they can call a supervisor to articulate it for them. -Many cops are hired at a young age when they have college experience or military experience; but no actual "life experience". As Officer Izzo says, at 21 years old, how are you going to act as a councilor for two people who have been married for twenty years who are going through severe domestic problems that may or may not be causing violence or at least extremely heated arguments? People who get hired for this job should be people who have to deal with angry, disgruntled, upset or perhaps even mentally unstable individuals on a daily basis. Retail workers, people who work in the medical field, people with psychology and sociology experience, people who speak more languages than just English, people who are over the age of 30, people who have had a steady marriage for several years. These are all people who in all likelihood are more qualified to handle the problems an average cop will encounter each shift. The bottom line is that cops are expected by the public to be supermen. Super strong, super tough, able to kick anyone's ass, act as a marriage councilor, a mental health expert, a paramedic, a hostage negotiator, a child care expert, be multi-lingual and know the law to the degree a law student would. This is not the case for any cop anywhere in America, and in all likelihood; not the case for any cop anywhere on the planet. I don't care how much training you've had, you can't be the best at everything. That being said, there is easily room for improvement in all of the areas I just mentioned, a lot of which does not have to be done in the academy itself. It can be done on the road with a more experienced model police officer; and I'm not talking about an FTO because they don't always know everything either, and even if they did, a few months of riding with them isn't long enough to absorb all the knowledge they have. These people should be your partner for a few years before you get your own cruiser and work alone, not for weeks or months.

That immediately made me think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHgs3LFLBzY Sorry. lol

The FBI issued an alert the other day that ISIS is confirmed to be setting up some kind of attack in the U.S., although there is no specific target and date at this time. Germany supposedly also believes they are under threat. United States President Barack Obama privately met at a small table with Russian President Vladimir Putin the other day, prior to official business for the summit with all major European countries. The contents of their conversation is unknown.

That might be something that can be tweaked in the future, so never say never. I'll leave it at that.

I talked to a local (county) EMS dispatcher recently; he said he hates his job but he gets paid to do it. The police dispatchers I've met are volunteers and seem indifferent.

You can't prevent AI from going hostile in regards to using your weapon, no. This only happens in certain neighborhoods usually; predominantly the black & hispanic ghetto/barrio areas. I've also had it happen to me in the hick area in the north part of the map where Trevor lives, and occasionally black dudes on motorcycles in random locations such as Vinewood or Vespuci Beach will get off their bike, remove their helmet and shoot at me or AI cops that use their weapons.