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In a Sept. 16 video released by the Fort Lupton Police Department, a train can be seen crashing into a police vehicle on train tracks in Ford Lupton, Colo., which contained a woman handcuffed by authorities. In the footage, a train horn can be heard in the distance as police look through the vehicle, moments before it is hit by the train.

According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, sustained serious injuries when the back of the patrol car was hit by a train near the town of Platteville, near Denver, just after 7:30 p.m.

Rios-Gonzalez had been detained moments earlier after officers responded to what Fort Lupton police called a “high-risk vehicle stop” in a Facebook post. Edited bodycam and dashcam footage released by police shows officers approaching Rios-Gonzalez with at least one gun drawn, and ordering her to put her hands up and exit her car.

Rios-Gonzalez’s lawyer, Jonathan Stine, told NBC News Monday that his client remains in the hospital. He told the outlet she lost teeth as a result of the impact, as well as suffering a broken arm, multiple fractured ribs and other injuries to her head and legs.
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Train slams into police car with woman handcuffed inside, shocking video shows​

 
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EnolaGaia said:
This Colorado woman was intercepted and detained following a road rage incident. While they were searching her car the cops stashed her in the police vehicle ... which they'd parked upon the railroad tracks ... and then the freight train came ...
FULL STORY: https://coloradosun.com/2022/09/18/platteville-police-car-hit-train/
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Update ... The police officer who'd stopped the woman has claimed he was focused on her (based on erratic behavior) and didn't realize he'd stopped his own vehicle on the railroad tracks. It's also emerged that a second officer who'd arrived in a different police vehicle was the one who'd placed the handcuffed woman in the first officer's vehicle, and the first officer claimed he wasn't aware she'd been placed in his vehicle until after the train hit it.
Video shows officer didn’t know police car was on tracks

A police officer in Colorado who arrested a woman who was seriously injured when the parked patrol car she was in was struck by a freight train said he did not realize he had stopped the vehicle on the railroad tracks, according to police body camera video.

In video obtained by KUSA-TV on Thursday, Platteville Sgt. Pablo Vazquez told another officer that he thought he had cleared the tracks when he stopped Yareni Rios-Gonzalez on Sept. 16 in a suspected road rage case involving a gun. He said he pulled up right behind her truck and was focused on her because he was concerned about weapons.

Vazquez also said he did not know another officer he was working with from a nearby department had put Rios-Gonzalez in Vasquez’s patrol vehicle until after it was hit by the train. ...

Rios-Gonzalez’s injuries included nine broken ribs, a broken arm and a fractured sternum. ...

Previously released video from Vazquez’s body camera show him and another officer searching Rios-Gonzalez’s truck as the train approaches and its horn is blaring. Vazquez asks the other officer several times over the sound of the train’s rumbling whether Rios-Gonzalez was in the patrol vehicle and she responds, one hand to her face, “Oh my God, yes, she was!” ...
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/arrests-colorado-32b911bbd82c5dfec94035592ca2e7e0
 
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Another idiot.

An off-duty cop was cleaning his gun in Salinas, California, this week when he "mistakenly fired a round", shooting himself through the hand and a nearby man in the chest. The man died later in hospital, reports KYVU staff.

When officers arrived to the scene they found Villicana with a gunshot wound to his hand, and Ferro-Sanchez to his upper torso. Both were taken to the hospital, where Ferro-Sanchez died. "This tragic incident is devastating for everyone involved, and we acknowledge many people are grieving," said Santa Cruz Police Chief Bernie Escalante. Police did not say whether the two men knew each other.
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https://boingboing.net/2022/10/27/c...d-kills-bystander-while-cleaning-his-gun.html
 
EnolaGaia said:
This Colorado woman was intercepted and detained following a road rage incident. While they were searching her car the cops stashed her in the police vehicle ... which they'd parked upon the railroad tracks ... and then the freight train came ...
FULL STORY: https://coloradosun.com/2022/09/18/platteville-police-car-hit-train/
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Latest update ...

Charges have been filed against the injured woman (for her actions leading to detention at the scene) and the two cops (for leaving her helpless in a cop car parked across a railroad crossing).
Officers charged in Platteville train crash that hurt detained woman

Criminal charges have been filed against two police officers and the detained woman who was hurt when a train crashed into a Platteville police car. ...

The woman in the September crash, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, was accused of pointing a gun at someone in a road rage incident when police officers pulled her over and detained her. ...

Officer Jordan Steinke, with the Fort Lupton Police Department, faces one count of each of felony attempted manslaughter, felony second-degree assault and misdemeanor reckless endangerment in the incident.

Sgt. Pablo Vazquez, with the Platteville Police Department, faces five counts of misdemeanor reckless endangerment and one count each of obstructing a passageway, careless driving and parking where prohibited. The police chief has said that the officer was put on paid administrative leave after the crash.

Rios-Gonzalez faces one count of felony menacing in the alleged road rage incident. ...
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FULL STORY: https://kdvr.com/news/local/officers-woman-charged-in-platteville-train-crash/
 
cycleboy2 said:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/10/florida-police-arrest-legally-blind-man-cane-gun

Two US cops arrest blind man after they mistake his cane for a gun! Though it was foggy. Cue 'should have gone to Specsavers'-type gags...
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It’s worse than that - the video shows him demonstrating to the cops it was a folded up stick. He was polite but quite firm in stating his position that they were in the wrong. They arrested him anyway.

The obvious & easy option would’ve been to let him go on his way after it became clear it was just a stick but no..

I’ll be interested to see the outcome of this.
 
hunck said:
It’s worse than that - the video shows him demonstrating to the cops it was a folded up stick. He was polite but quite firm in stating his position that they were in the wrong. They arrested him anyway.

The obvious & easy option would’ve been to let him go on his way after it became clear it was just a stick but no..

I’ll be interested to see the outcome of this.
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Baffling. Are police these days given the order to 'double down' if they make a mistake?
Wouldn't it be much simpler to admit they got it wrong and then say sorry?
 
Not exactly the police, but I couldn't let this one go as it was actually trumpeted on the Government's own website...

A package containing an illegal veterinary medicine was identified by Border Force officers at a depot in Stanford-Le-Hope.

The package arrived from Switzerland containing medicine destined for an address in North-east Lincolnshire.

The medicine was detained and subsequently seized by an Inspector from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

The following medicine was seized:

  • 1 x 10 ml bottle of Formula Swiss CBD Oil for Cats
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/formula-swiss-cbd-product-seized

Well, we can all sleep easier in our ****ing beds tonight, can't we?

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Not exactly the police, but I couldn't let this one go as it was actually trumpeted on the Government's own website...

A package containing an illegal veterinary medicine was identified by Border Force officers at a depot in Stanford-Le-Hope.

The package arrived from Switzerland containing medicine destined for an address in North-east Lincolnshire.

The medicine was detained and subsequently seized by an Inspector from the Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

The following medicine was seized:

  • 1 x 10 ml bottle of Formula Swiss CBD Oil for Cats
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/formula-swiss-cbd-product-seized

Well, we can all sleep easier in our ****ing beds tonight, can't we?

maximus otter
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Why is that illegal? I mean, CBD oil is now legal for human use.
 
maximus otter said:
CBD Oil for Cats
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Hey maaaaan.......
....Like...I ordered it online...okaaaay?
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Hotel boss asked to remove online video of thieves who stripped their room bare because its 'causing them distress'.

Natalie Newton, 43, posted the pictures of the couple leaving the Dolphin Hotel in Pembroke Dock, West Wales, last Sunday morning, appearing to carry two bags stuffed with items from their room.

The pair allegedly escaped with a haul of luxury towels, two lamps, an electric fan, clock radio, tower extension block, kettle and tea caddy.

Natalie reported the pair to police who tracked them down through the bank card they used to pay for their hotel room.

But Dyfed-Powys Police visited Natalie this week to ask her to remove the CCTV from her social media because it was upsetting the alleged thieves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-radio-kettle-tea-caddy-causing-distress.html

:headbang:

maximus otter
 
Police lose over 2,200 walkie-talkies, not sure 'who owns them'

Police have lost 2244 walkie-talkies in the past five years. Due to 'sloppy administration', the police cannot rule out that the devices have fallen into the hands of criminals. RTL News reports this on the basis of questions put to the police.

In Rotterdam alone, for instance, 450 walkie-talkies appear to be active, of which the police also do not know where they ended up. The police themselves do say that such a device is 'probably' somewhere in a drawer or cupboard at a police station. *** The chances of the walkie-talkies going around or having gone around the criminal circuit are 'nil', the police said.

*** knowing such organizations I find this very likely ***

President Jan Struijs of the police union NPB wants a large-scale investigation to be conducted into the lost walkie-talkies. "We must be able to rule out one hundred per cent that devices are being used in the criminal circuit," Struijs told RTL News.

In 2016, it came out that an officer from Limburg had sold a walkie-talkie to criminals. That device made it possible to secretly listen in to officers, the criminal investigation department and the control room. The underworld was thus informed of upcoming police actions, among other things.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2494698-poli...foons-kwijt-niet-zeker-wie-ze-in-handen-heeft
 
uair01 said:
Police lose over 2,200 walkie-talkies, not sure 'who owns them'

Police have lost 2244 walkie-talkies in the past five years. Due to 'sloppy administration', the police cannot rule out that the devices have fallen into the hands of criminals. RTL News reports this on the basis of questions put to the police.
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Are these Tetra?
 
uair01 said:
Yes, and probably also Sepura UK.
Tetra has been hacked BTW:
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I know a few people who've worked at Sepura for years. Sepura even approached me once about a job, but I turned them down.
They pretty much took over the secure mobile comms market many years back.
I'm not surprised that Tetra has been hacked - it's been around for such a long time, it was a question of 'when', not 'if'.
 
maximus otter said:
Hotel boss asked to remove online video of thieves who stripped their room bare because its 'causing them distress'.

Natalie Newton, 43, posted the pictures of the couple leaving the Dolphin Hotel in Pembroke Dock, West Wales, last Sunday morning, appearing to carry two bags stuffed with items from their room.

The pair allegedly escaped with a haul of luxury towels, two lamps, an electric fan, clock radio, tower extension block, kettle and tea caddy.

Natalie reported the pair to police who tracked them down through the bank card they used to pay for their hotel room.

But Dyfed-Powys Police visited Natalie this week to ask her to remove the CCTV from her social media because it was upsetting the alleged thieves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-radio-kettle-tea-caddy-causing-distress.html

:headbang:

maximus otter
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Awwwww did it hurt their lil feelings, fine, Natalie, don't post it, remove it from your social media but, give the vid to your friends and tell them to post it, pass it along, shouldn't be catering to thieves. I mean, anybody could post that video now, splash it everywhere.
 
Shady said:
Awwwww did it hurt their lil feelings, fine, Natalie, don't post it, remove it from your social media but, give the vid to your friends and tell them to post it, pass it along, shouldn't be catering to thieves. I mean, anybody could post that video now, splash it everywhere.
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Suddenly, the thieves have more legal protection than the victim? How odd.
 
Your tax £ at work:

"Ten English Police ‘forces’ have just spent £20 million finding [that] if the police are visible and active on the streets, crime falls. They ‘discovered’ that reports of antisocial behaviour dropped by more than a third in areas targeted with extra police patrols."

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/

(Regrettably, I can't find a link to the report/s despite some Googling.)

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
Your tax £ at work:

"Ten English Police ‘forces’ have just spent £20 million finding [that] if the police are visible and active on the streets, crime falls. They ‘discovered’ that reports of antisocial behaviour dropped by more than a third in areas targeted with extra police patrols."

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/

(Regrettably, I can't find a link to the report/s despite some Googling.)

maximus otter
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They needed a study to tell them what they already knew?
 
And we are told bobbies on the beat seldom catch criminals.

But, of course, they help prevent crime in other ways...
 
One of many statements of research performed by The Department of Blindingly Obvious.
 
Mythopoeika said:
They needed a study to tell them what they already knew?
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Stormkhan said:
One of many statements of research performed by The Department of Blindingly Obvious.
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Whatever the bodies involved, if they don't have the research, then barrack-room lawyers rail about the decisions, especially now there is the interweb.

When the critics have power over the situation it gets more serious of course, but most of the time it's all flatulence and posturing.

Human nature but... :dunno:
 
Not really dumb cops but couldn’t think of anywhere else for this.

'UK's smallest police station' has just opened

A new police station in Crawley, West Sussex that measures just 6ft by 8ft 4in and barely fits a table and chair has been ridiculed despite claims from Sussex Police it will help to stop knife crime

It is too tiny for cells and photos show a table and chair barely squeezed inside alongside PCSOs who are set to staff it every day. The station is powered by solar panels and made from 1,312 plastic bottles.
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I can see that being vandalised pretty darn quick!
I can't imagine it's 'staffed' full time and looks to be a naff replacement for the ol' Police Box. Still, it gives 'em somewhere to duck into out of the rain.
 
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