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@slimory - But that's not OK. Assault is a crime; you can't just go around punching people when you want to. It's not an issue of the *cop* pressing charges; the question is if the guy he punched can press charges. Police need to stay in control of the situation, but there are ways of doing that without force. If he did need to use force, punching is the wrong way to do it; there are forms of physical force that are much better at controlling someone, while punching is designed to hurt someone. @DD: That's what I want to know. That's often the case in these videos, but I don't want to assume it happened here.

Oh, I don't think I should be allowed to punch someone for pissing me off. I'm just saying that it isn't nearly as bad if I do it as if a cop does it.

If you mouth off to some random person on the street, you might get punched; I could certainly understand being pissed off if I show up somewhere and the person there is complaining that I was slow. However, I'm not a cop. Police are given much more trust and authority, and they absolutely have to be held to a higher standard. EDIT: Whatever the "last line" was, since it's gone, posts talking about it are confusing. Could a mod hide those posts?

I said that referring to cop cars.

Any car mods can affect game stability. ELS cars can literally have ten times as many polygons as default cars. Limiting ELS to cars that don't normally spawn is a really good way to help, but you can always have issues.

How much does that training involve working with others in the unit? In his case now, he doesn't have a small unit; he's on his own (so, for example, it'd be a lot harder to hit from all sides). That's not rhetorical; I don't know how small-unit and special ops training works. I can definitely see someone in an ops role with a low rifle marksmanship grade; it'd make sense for everyone to have tactics training, even if not everyone is primarily a rifleman.

All of the above.

I'd be inclined to question someone who trained in river-warfare but only qualified as rifle marksman. Wouldn't that be pretty much the minimum for *any* combat role? You'd think they'd want higher scorers on SW units. As for the manifesto, obviously it shouldn't be discounted, but I'd have to point out that overconfidence isn't out of character for people who write "manifestos". We're not talking Rambo here.

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Comments sections are a terrible gauge for what most people think. You should know this by now. If not, I'm not sure how you can view Youtube comments without wanting to kill yourself. For example, guess who will comment on this sort of story? People who are already interested in it. You're probably more likely to post a comment on an article about the LAPD than pretty much anyone in LA, so you can't go by the "comments" standard.

So you were right: the police training is more important tactically. Something I'm really disappointed by: From what I saw, he tried to peacefully bring people's attention to problems in the LAPD, and was ignored. Now that he has people's attention, people will become more hostile to his ideas. It seems like there's no actual way to point out corruption.

He had access to those files at one point. However, did he have any access after he was fired from the LAPD? When did he leave the Navy? EDIT: Also, I guess we probably have no idea what he *did* in intelligence. It could have been some direct action thing, if naval intelligence does that stuff. I assume that they don't tell people exactly what they do, though.

I agree that shooting people for just driving a similar car is indefensible. I'm not defending those cops. I'm saying that that isn't what I imagine when you say they're trying to silence him. They're certainly trying to kill them, and shooting random people isn't necessarily a part of that. I especially see no way this ties to corruption. This is an incredibly stressful situation for officers, and I can imagine one thinking they see something and overreacting. This doesn't defend that; the one who overreacts should be punished. However, incompetence, especially in a stressful situation, is much, much more likely than malice. Again, I don't dispute your claim that what they did was bad. I dispute its relevance to this discussion. Also, would a naval intelligence officer really be heavily trained in infantry or guerilla tactics? He has about 3 years of instruction in police tactics (which isn't necessarily all that much, especially because the last tactics he learned are several years old), and I'm not convinced his military training is so suited to this.

Yeah. When someone has been setting up ambushes, shoot-on-sight doesn't seem as unreasonable.

That doesn't address anything. I don't see any way shooting people who are not him could be "trying to silence him". I see many ways it could be "should not be trusted with a gun". Hanlon's razor. To my mind, "trying to silence him" means "they're trying to kill them", and not killing innocents doesn't even come close to conflicting with that.

Mass murderers aren't labeled as "mentally ill" in the US. They're generally shot by police, or commit suicide, or, if arrested, sentenced to death or life in prison. Mental illness doesn't get you off in criminal cases; that's entirely a Hollywood myth. As to them trying to "silence" him - Killing a spree killer seems like the right response. Seriously, I don't think this is "silencing", more "police doing their jobs". What alternative would you suggest?

I wouldn't be so sure. He seems to want to go down fighting.

I never crash, but I do get a lot of calls that have blank locations.

Everything I've ever heard about fictional police shows is that they aren't realistic. They may strive for realism, but that frequently gets cut for better TV. I've heard the same thing about COPS: they edit and cut it to the point that it isn't all that close to actual police work. I don't know for sure, but based on how TV treats science and computing (which I *do* know about), I'd be shocked if it came anywhere near what real policing is like.

I would love to see Abraxas and Braveheart working together. I can dream...

@CRAWFORD: That should be "condemn" at the end, not "condone". They mean pretty much opposite things.

No. "Letting tension out" is something you do at a gym, or playing sports, or games, or something like that. It's not something you do by beating someone on the side of the road.

Those aren't just clothing changes, they're actually different models. LCPDFR lets you switch to the following ped models (in no particular order): m_y_copm_y_cop_trafficm_m_fatcop_01m_y_strooperm_m_fbiig_francism_m_armouredm_y_clubfitEFLC adds m_y_ciadlc01 and m_y_ciadlc02. Models are found in componentpeds.img.