johnclark1102

Now Available: Video Preview Below!
Hello again LCPDFR! It's been a long time since my last public release but I've been working on a lot of personal projects lately and decided to start releasing some of them for everyone to enjoy. 
Following in the footsteps of perhaps my most successful public release, the Harbor County Sheriff's Office Crown Victoria, I'm pleased to announce that later this month I'll be releasing an updated patrol sedan in the same tradition. In addition to the Interceptor Sedan, I'm expecting to release other modern police vehicles with the same equipment package.
 


 
HCSO Ford Interceptor Sedan
Vehicle Overview
This vehicle model is the Ford Police Interceptor Sedan used by the Harbor County Department of Public Safety Role Play Community in 2016. The vehicle was custom designed and purpose built for the community to commemorate 4 years of operation.
This vehicle is being released publicly as part of that celebration and we hope that everyone who chooses to use this vehicle enjoys it as much as we do, and as much as some of you enjoyed using the previous Crown Victoria.
The livery used in the video preview below is an updated version of the Harbor County Community's original launch livery from 2012 in honor of the community's 4+ years of operation and is used in the video as a place holder. Other liveries will be included in the release as well as a template for making your own liveries.
Vehicle Features
Our new vehicle fleet was purpose built to meet the demands of the Harbor County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division. We simulate a highly funded, modern agency, so our patrol fleet is equipped with some unique features:
Independent front / rear light activation stages Customized Whelen Legacy DUO lightbar with forward flood option Able 2 Products Supplemental Light Heads Optional ALPR camera system Watch Guard Video’s 4RE high definition dash camera system Stalker Patrol Digital Radar System Customized center console modeled after HAVIS products, featuring Whelen Sapphire control head, Panasonic Toughbook computer, and Brother PocketJet in car printing system Patrol Rifle and Less Lethal Shotgun mounted in car racks Setina rear window guards, partition, tamper resistant door panels and rear seat Setina Push Bumper Optimized for ELS 8.5  
Screen Shots

Preview screen shots of the new interior upgrades can be found in my LCPDFR gallery linked below.
 

 
Video Preview

A video preview can be seen below, showing the ELS functions and the car's general features.


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That was exactly the problem, thank you!

I had most of the police equipment I added to the car attached together as one object. By splitting the items up into several "misc" parts, the car seems to be much more cooperative now. Learn something new every day...

Thanks again!

So the typical reasoning behind this mess of polygons is that you have too many polygons on one single object. Such as if you attach all of your equipment to your chassis_L0, then it may be too many polygons for zmodeler to export correctly.
 
Try seeing if any of your pieces have a large number of polygons in that single mesh, and try to split them up.

That's a great find! Thanks a lot. I'm not sure how I missed that in the hours of searching I did. Google is slipping in its old age I guess...
Thanks again!

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​Who I believe would depend on a number of factors, especially if the complainant has or does not have physical injuries consistent with her complaint. Being body slammed on pavement during an arrest would leave physical injury ranging from bruises to lacerations or even more serious injuries. If the complainant has no injuries, then reasonable doubt exists and I cannot legally consider her complaint to be sustainable.
That's the biggest problem with "abuse" complaints.  Many complaints turn out to be completely made up and were intended to be a way to seek revenge on an officer that arrested someone, like a child throwing a tantrum. Those false complaints sour every legitimate complaint that comes in.
Remove police officers from the equation. What if you and I got into an argument one day, and I decided to tell the police that you body slammed me on pavement. Would you have them arrest you on the spot based solely on my statement? Why should it be any different when someone makes a complaint against someone that happens to be an officer? Many people make complaints without any form of merit of supporting evidence and in our legal system, the suspect is considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and the burden of proof rests with the accuser.
People also need to remember that officers are legally allowed to use force to make you comply with their instructions. So, was the hypothetical female resisting arrest or detention or otherwise interfering with Officer Joe? If so, using force against her is not abuse, it's the officer doing his job.
There have been several instances of truly abusive police officers and it's a shame; they should be prosecuted. Everyone knows the bad officers are out there, it's human nature. But to take the actions of what amount to less than 1% of the total police officers in this country and assume that they will all be abusive is simply wrong. That's what's been happening lately, people are drawing broad conclusions from a small data sample. A large majority of the time when people think they have been abused or had their rights violated, they are wrong. Police are legally allowed to use force to make you comply, so even after you've been arrested and are handcuffed if you are still being combative or resisting in any way, they can use force and it is not "assault".
Again, let's remove police officers from the equation. I'm an airline pilot, for example. There have been a string of airline accidents recently, yet no one assumes when they board my plane I am going to screw up and crash. Everyone has the basic assumption that I am a professional and will do my job correctly. What about when you go to see a doctor? Medical malpractice happens every day, yet no one expects a doctor to be bad at their job as a blanket assumption. So then, why do so many people lately seem to automatically expect police officers to be bad at their job? They are people too, just like the rest of us. Some make mistakes. Most do not.
I agree that someone should not be assaulted while in custody. But the circumstances of what happen during an incident determine if something is legally "assault" or "lawful use of force". Again, many people do not understand the law. 
I can't speak to the circumstances that you experienced because I wasn't there, so I don't know exactly why that officer behaved the way he did. However, as I explained above if he ordered you to sit on the curb and you didn't immediately comply, he is allowed to use force to make you comply. You should also remember the physiological stress that can occur as a police officer. That officer may have just come from a call where someone was physically combative with him, and his body was still under the effects of the adrenaline fight or flight response. Maybe he was just a jerk.
I think that in many cases, citizens unnecessarily escalate a situation by failing to comply with the lawful orders of a police officer. I disagree about drawing a firearm as a step in the use of force continuum. Police are often so quick to draw weapons because of science; action is faster than re-action. Police officers must treat everyone that chooses not to comply with their instructions as a potential threat, because anyone could be a potential threat. If an officer waited for that threat to become apparent, and had to REACT to it, he would be hurt or killed.
I agree there's a problem with that scenario however, since there's no reasonable way that an officer could know the race of every person he's pulling over before initiating the stop, especially at night, race isn't an issue. If a man of color feels unsafe when he gets pulled over, I believe the problem is his unreasonable and irrational fear of police officers. That's a systemic problem resulting from a number of socioeconomic factors, not a result of legitimate police brutality.
I'm all for legitimate "accountability" for everyone and yes, I would agree with you that sometimes the system is broken. My main complaint has always been that many people simply don't have a reasonable definition of that word.

​Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, even if other's disagree with it. But, facts are important in helping us form our opinions so just to clear a few things up, self reported statistics comprised by the FBI are more credible than made up statistics and opinions seen on the nightly news.
It doesn't take any money or power to call a local station and ask for a supervisor if you feel you've been mistreated.
As for the "scary" settlement number of $735 million, after reading the the article you linked, it clearly explains that is the foretasted budget for the year, not the actual dollar amount spent on settlements. That article is also from 2012. More importantly, that budget plan was not for "police abuse settlements", it was for total settlements for all settlements and lawsuits involving the city. According to that article, those potential settlements include "malpractice in public hospitals, collisions with fire trucks, potholes causing accidents, property damage, and contract disputes."
Yes police abuse settlements are included in the city's budget, but using the previous year (FY2011) as an example, the article reports that out of the total of $664 million in settlements, only $119 million was used for police misconduct. That's only 17.9% of all lawsuits settled with the city. The other 82.1% of the settlement funding was used for incidents that had nothing to do with the police.
Personally, I think if the citizens want to earn back the respect and trust of the police that protect them, they have to stop breaking the law and accept responsibility for their own actions and poor decisions, instead of treating every police officer as a racist abusive tyrant.
This thread wasn't intended to be a debate, I'm just presenting the factual side of the story. If you respond negatively, that's on you.

​First and foremost, I'm not angry and any connotation of such is simply a misunderstanding due to the inability to convey tone through text. I apologize for that. We are having a conversation, and our perspectives are different because of different experience. I will freely admit that my text may have come across as a bit "short", and frankly that's because I grow tired of having conversations about our nation's current state of affairs where talking points are based solely on opinions or false /  misleading information, such as the article you posted.
There may not be a quantifiable incentive that you are aware of for police departments to report their statistics, but most agencies still do. The incentive can be as simple as an ethical obligation in the interest of justice, or it could be a funding related provision, or recognition by the federal government through programs such as agencies being nationally accredited. There may be no incentive at all. As for a supervisor not taking a complaint, I'm implying that they would based on my personal experience, and you're implying that they wouldn't based on, I don't know what. Again, different perspectives based on different experience.
Settlement payouts do not automatically prove wrong doing. Again, from my first hand experience, out of court settlements can simply mean that the cost of fighting a claim in court outweighed the cost of making a settlement. Processing claims in court can take a toll on the system and prevent more pressing matters from being heard in a timely manner. I will agree with you that the abuse claims are completely avoidable, though I would counter that the first step in avoiding those claims would be for citizens to not break the law.
As a taxpayer, I do hope my local agencies are doing everything they can to prevent unnecessary law suits. But I also hope that they spend my tax dollars to relentlessly enforce the law and hold law breakers accountable for their poor choices and actions.
Personally, I've had mostly great experiences with police officers as well. I've even had guns drawn on me too, during a felony traffic stop. At the time, I had no idea what was going on, but it later turned out that it was certainly not for "no reason". Police are reactionary in nature, everything an officer does is a direct reaction to something someone else did. So, while I knew of nothing that I had done wrong and no laws that I had violated, I still complied with the officers instructions, allowed them to handcuff me and place me in their car. I answered their questions, and was on my way in less than 10 minutes with their sincere apology after they determined that I was not the bank robber they were looking for.
My point with that story is, while someone may argue that I had guns drawn on me for "no reason", the reality is the reason was because I was the only person driving away from the bank at 2 in the morning and the silent alarm had been triggered. I didn't know it at the time, but the officers had reasonable suspicion to believe I had robbed the bank, even though I knew I didn't. Your experience will vary.
You and I also agree that it is not always the citizen's fault when a poor police /  community relationship exists. However, citizens are often responsible for that breakdown just like some police officers are. Everyone should be held accountable for their actions.

​Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, even if other's disagree with it. But, facts are important in helping us form our opinions so just to clear a few things up, self reported statistics comprised by the FBI are more credible than made up statistics and opinions seen on the nightly news.
It doesn't take any money or power to call a local station and ask for a supervisor if you feel you've been mistreated.
As for the "scary" settlement number of $735 million, after reading the the article you linked, it clearly explains that is the foretasted budget for the year, not the actual dollar amount spent on settlements. That article is also from 2012. More importantly, that budget plan was not for "police abuse settlements", it was for total settlements for all settlements and lawsuits involving the city. According to that article, those potential settlements include "malpractice in public hospitals, collisions with fire trucks, potholes causing accidents, property damage, and contract disputes."
Yes police abuse settlements are included in the city's budget, but using the previous year (FY2011) as an example, the article reports that out of the total of $664 million in settlements, only $119 million was used for police misconduct. That's only 17.9% of all lawsuits settled with the city. The other 82.1% of the settlement funding was used for incidents that had nothing to do with the police.
Personally, I think if the citizens want to earn back the respect and trust of the police that protect them, they have to stop breaking the law and accept responsibility for their own actions and poor decisions, instead of treating every police officer as a racist abusive tyrant.
This thread wasn't intended to be a debate, I'm just presenting the factual side of the story. If you respond negatively, that's on you.

​I won't shoot anyone, except in accordance with my state's statutes whereby I reasonably believe someone is, or is intending to pose, a threat of deadly force or is attempting to commit aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery.
Then I'll shoot center mass repeatedly until the threat is stopped. 

​I know that officer involved shootings are ruled as a homicide; I have first hand training and experience. But "homicide" does not equal "murder".
If an officer is involved in an unjustified use of force, they should be charged just like any citizen would be, and they frequently are. That doesn't make headline news, even though it happens all the time. But many people don't seem to understand the legal ground that constitutes justification nor do they understand that the use of force statutes apply to all people, civilians and police officers alike.
This thread is about a police officer and his partner who were attacked in an apparent ambush and their attacker's attempt to murder them. Opening fire on two police officers is attempted murder, and it is wrong, no matter what.

​Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, even if other's disagree with it. But, facts are important in helping us form our opinions so just to clear a few things up, self reported statistics comprised by the FBI are more credible than made up statistics and opinions seen on the nightly news.
It doesn't take any money or power to call a local station and ask for a supervisor if you feel you've been mistreated.
As for the "scary" settlement number of $735 million, after reading the the article you linked, it clearly explains that is the foretasted budget for the year, not the actual dollar amount spent on settlements. That article is also from 2012. More importantly, that budget plan was not for "police abuse settlements", it was for total settlements for all settlements and lawsuits involving the city. According to that article, those potential settlements include "malpractice in public hospitals, collisions with fire trucks, potholes causing accidents, property damage, and contract disputes."
Yes police abuse settlements are included in the city's budget, but using the previous year (FY2011) as an example, the article reports that out of the total of $664 million in settlements, only $119 million was used for police misconduct. That's only 17.9% of all lawsuits settled with the city. The other 82.1% of the settlement funding was used for incidents that had nothing to do with the police.
Personally, I think if the citizens want to earn back the respect and trust of the police that protect them, they have to stop breaking the law and accept responsibility for their own actions and poor decisions, instead of treating every police officer as a racist abusive tyrant.
This thread wasn't intended to be a debate, I'm just presenting the factual side of the story. If you respond negatively, that's on you.

This video has been going around for a while and I love it.
Here's a YouTube link for those that have trouble with Facebook's video player. These facts need to be shared because we aren't going to see them on the news.
 

​Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, even if other's disagree with it. But, facts are important in helping us form our opinions so just to clear a few things up, self reported statistics comprised by the FBI are more credible than made up statistics and opinions seen on the nightly news.
It doesn't take any money or power to call a local station and ask for a supervisor if you feel you've been mistreated.
As for the "scary" settlement number of $735 million, after reading the the article you linked, it clearly explains that is the foretasted budget for the year, not the actual dollar amount spent on settlements. That article is also from 2012. More importantly, that budget plan was not for "police abuse settlements", it was for total settlements for all settlements and lawsuits involving the city. According to that article, those potential settlements include "malpractice in public hospitals, collisions with fire trucks, potholes causing accidents, property damage, and contract disputes."
Yes police abuse settlements are included in the city's budget, but using the previous year (FY2011) as an example, the article reports that out of the total of $664 million in settlements, only $119 million was used for police misconduct. That's only 17.9% of all lawsuits settled with the city. The other 82.1% of the settlement funding was used for incidents that had nothing to do with the police.
Personally, I think if the citizens want to earn back the respect and trust of the police that protect them, they have to stop breaking the law and accept responsibility for their own actions and poor decisions, instead of treating every police officer as a racist abusive tyrant.
This thread wasn't intended to be a debate, I'm just presenting the factual side of the story. If you respond negatively, that's on you.

This video has been going around for a while and I love it.
Here's a YouTube link for those that have trouble with Facebook's video player. These facts need to be shared because we aren't going to see them on the news.
 

This video has been going around for a while and I love it.
Here's a YouTube link for those that have trouble with Facebook's video player. These facts need to be shared because we aren't going to see them on the news.
 

An interesting video I watched while scrolling down my news feed on FB regarding statistics of complaints of police brutality.
https://www.facebook.com/ajudkins/videos/10205077972202979/
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​No one's posting about them? Last time I checked, a majority of the debates here have been about the police "murdering" people. The problem isn't that nothing is being done about the acts of the police, it's that nothing is being done about the acts against the police. Will there be riots across the nation, or even in NYC because this man (yes, believe it or not, cops are people too) was shot for no reason? No. Will there be people demanding action be taken against the criminals that keep killing police officers? No.
Show some respect.

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.
 

​That's because countless civilians have NOT been murdered by the police.

A police officer killing someone does not automatically equate to murder. Take a law class. Or at least read a state's statutes regarding the use of deadly force by citizens, and the use of force by peace officers.