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Sorry to be tardy to the party, as usual, but happy birthday! Just throw some music over the GIF below and I'm fairly certain that the combination accurately represents how hard Murphy partied.

We might finally have a classic firetruck on the way! '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>>

The previous song (Turn Around) gets an 8/10. It's a timeless tune and you can't help but to reflect while listening to it. ---

Let me just repost what I had on the first page. Pay particular attention to the bolded text. If you cannot grasp this then you're either trolling or you should genuinely work on your reading comprehension ability. There is literally no reason, other than impersonation, that you would be walking around with a fake shield on. Your attempt to play cop and feel like a badass violated the law quite clearly.

Dude, you just dialed the imbecility level up to eleven. You are not a member of law enforcement, have no business wearing a law-enforcement specific badge/shield/identifier, and are a convicted felon to boot. You're asking for trouble, especially since you must have been openly wearing it for it to be noticed by actual law enforcement personnel. Your replica may also be illegal under NYS/NYC law, thereby making it fair game for confiscation. Below is a quoted section from NYS Penal Law 190.26. Based upon the law, you could have very well been arrested. You're lucky that all that officer did was confiscate your item.

I'm glad that they reverted back to a black and white color scheme. So many great photos have come from this thread. :D

Your two previous statements still make the implication that you're not willing to take responsibility for your own actions. You say that you weren't fairly convicted, yet you decided to plead guilty and take a plea bargain. How is that not a fair conviction? Why would you place the blame on the law, when your own actions with an imitation firearm determined the charges? You said that you weren't a juvenile when doing whatever you did (which sounds like you pointed and fired a BB gun at a minor from the little that you've elaborated); should you not have known better? Aside from just having a felony conviction, the details of your felony conviction sound like it would be an even bigger liability to any department that would be looking at your application. Not many departments would hire a felon over the presumably countless other applicants they receive with perfectly clean records, especially not when they shot a kid with a BB gun. Why would you be furnished an actual firearm if you could not be trusted with a BB gun? I'd recommend that you consider a different profession.

No departments will be keen on hiring someone with a felony on their record, and with very good reason. How can someone be entrusted with enforcing the law when they themselves have proven that they cannot follow it (i.e. by receiving a felony conviction)? EDIT: EVI summed it up. Users on Officer.com will likely be very frank in telling you that you're nuts to even pose the question.

Let's hope that it's a good port, unlike LA Noire's, GTA IV's, and Red Dead Redepmtion's (ha!). Seeing as Max Payne's install was about 25GB and its port was very well done, I'm willing to sacrifice the HDD space for something that takes advantage of the PC's extra horsepower. Everything but my processor meets the recommended settings, but I do have an i5 2500k which is just a little bit older, so I should be fine.

^ I wonder how many yellow rigs were used as opposed to the more common red. That dark blue 1975-1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille is a beauty too! --- Here, have a terribly photoshopped GTA IV-real hybrid background in return. Maybe someone resourceful enough can make it a loading screen. xD

Education is always a step in the right direction, and free education for those that are willing to work toward it would undoubtedly be a wonderful thing to a significant number of people. Call me a bit of a pessimist, but I do hope that this does not somehow backfire and make the associate's degree akin to the high school diploma, subsequently decreasing the perceived importance of the bachelors and masters degrees to employers seeking out prospective candidates, and then forcing people into paying a hefty sum for even higher education.

Always good to see a fellow NYC'er on the forum, hehe. The fact of the matter is that officers are still conducting their jobs [again, evidenced by consistent activity in the news as well as the often completely unreported interactions with the public. Get a hold of a scanner if you can and you'll see that jobs are still being answered, and therefore officers are still doing their jobs.] MOS in other areas aside from patrol are surely doing their jobs as well, or cases would not be researched upon, arrests would not be made, etc. Should the numbers ever have dictated policing in NYC as much as they have over the past ten years, and should the numbers ever gone that high considering what was an arrestable offense then would've been thrown out in the 70s/80s/90s - an era of significantly higher violent crime to focus upon? You say that the police are doing well overall but then go on to make a blanket statement about them not doing their jobs and instead committing murder [albeit with a disclaimer at the end]? I will not speak on the particular incident in question because differing opinions of specific aspects and actions of the case will undoubtedly foster nothing but arguments of a subjective nature, but one must at the very least respect the legal process. A fundamental part of having an occupation is the ability to be fairly treated and subsequently advocate for your fair treatment. That is surely an admirable cause, and one that is at place here, even though officers are continuing to work. As a note, it was a pleasure to have a civilized conversation on this topic with you. I've sent you a link through PM to an article explaining why some of the numbers that I speak of were arguably artificially inflated and thus why tensions are so high, in the event that you were curious.

For the record, I live in NYC and I am a reader of the news. I am fully aware of what is occurring right now; the city is missing out on cash because summons/ticket revenues are down, arrests for throw-away offenses are not being made because they shouldn't have been made in the first place (until the aforementioned Kelly administration practically took away discretion from officers and made them pull numbers day in and day out), and officers are allegedly responding to calls with additional backup in order to hopefully prevent the tragedy that happened to officers Ramos and Liu from happening again, showcasing that increased wait times amount from a need for additional officers on top of the ones out there already. The city had a comparable patrol force during the 1975 layoffs compared to today, and perhaps that may also be a side effect of a decreased crime rate. Perhaps officers are making a statement, but perhaps it is the flawed implementation of policies and systems in the past to chase short-term goals that was not looking at the long term that caused the majority of issues today.

One would be hard pressed to call such actions a "slowdown". Jobs are still being answered evidenced by these officers rushing to an armed robbery call and ending up injured even though they could've gone off duty, among the vast majority of other officers doing their jobs. (Do note that benefits for recently hired officers that were injured on the job to the point where they cannot return to work were significantly cut.) The unions have called for officers to conduct their jobs exactly by-the-book and with safety in mind; two requests that make perfect sense especially in light of current events. Arrests, summonses, and tickets are down, yes, but is that not an expected side effect of lower crime rates for the past twenty years? Is this not what the city government wanted when they made it clear that going after low level broken windows crimes was no longer a high priority? Here's a quote from an essay written by the mayor's wife, found in its entirety here. Do not overlook that punishments stemming from not meeting ticket/arrest/summons quotas are illegal in accordance with NY Labor Law 215-A [relevant reading here as well] and that quotas are illegal in NY State according to S295-6A, ratified in 2009. --- Much of the rift between the NYPD and Communities can be traced directly back to former commissioner Ray Kelly's micromanagement and ramping up of policing for the sake of getting numbers to an insane level. He took stop, question, frisk and basically made it into a performance evaluator/quota - what was once a useful investigative tool became nothing more than a blanket of random stops that amounted in little more than a number. Ten years of policies like that are why nearly everything is stressed today, and the current mayor isn't doing much better IMO (though I will give credit to the current commissioner's attempts to patch things up).

--- What are you looking forward to?

RIP to the victims of this tragedy - to the journalists whom exercised their basic rights of free speech to the police officers that made the ultimate sacrifice. Let's hope the long arm of the law can find the monsters that did this and make 'em pay.