[Malacite]

Wii-playing police receive slap on the wrist, strict talking to

Look, if people are going to eschew their work day in favor of having a gaming tournament, we're the first to sympathize. In the case of those in the business of protecting our lives from murderers and financial institutions though, we find it hard to offer much solace. So when eleven officials from several Florida agencies were caught on videotape playing games a couple months back and the story caught on internationally, we were hopeful that those found guilty would maybe, you know, actually receive some form of punishment.

Instead, the Lakeland Ledger reports that the offending officers will suffer such retribution as ... a few hours of retraining? The names of the officers are even being withheld due to their "undercover" status at the time. Lakeland sheriff chief of staff Gary Hester goes as far as to say, "We are learning from our mistakes ... I think we handled [the investigation] properly." He then hurriedly rushed back to a game of Street Fighter IV in progress against a competing police department.

... Okay, we made up that last part.

Are you f'ing kidding me?

[Balfree]

I can't skip a minute at my part-time, can't even go to google or check my cellphone without getting told.

No sympathy here at all.

[Takelli]

Playing WII on the job? Most people cant even check their phone message, even on their break. Why give the police any leverage?

Hence why I hate the police. They think the law doesn't affect them.

[Yellow Mage]

Originally Posted by Malacite

Florida

Natch.

[TheGrandMom]

Oh for pete's sake, this gets so blown out of proportion by the media. While it wasn't right to do what they did the media makes it sound like they were beating suspects or stealing from this guys house. They had a house to search and most were doing the job of searching and cataloging. One or two were playing the Wii instead of searching.....wrong but big whoopie. All that will come of this is a slap on the wrist and a rep put in their file.....and the scumbags lawyers trying to use it in court to discredit the police force. How about the media reporting news that actually matters?

[Cometgreen]

Originally Posted by TheGrandMom

All that will come of this is a slap on the wrist and a rep put in their file.....and the scumbags lawyers trying to use it in court to discredit the police force. How about the media reporting news that actually matters?

Like this? Or this? Or this? Or these?

Regarding the outcome of the Wii incident, you can't expect the police to dole out any reasonable punishments against its own employees. There's little incentive to do so.

[TheGrandMom]

Originally Posted by Cometgreen

Like this? Or this? Or this? Or these?

Regarding the outcome of the Wii incident, you can't expect the police to dole out any reasonable punishments against its own employees. There's little incentive to do so.

911 Call Released In Everett Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting - News Story - KIRO Seattle

THAT one especially should have been plastered all over the news but I didn't hear about it one bit. They can have cops playing a Wii all over national news like its the end of the world but a cop doing 911 Call Released In Everett Officer-Involved Fatal Shooting - News Story - KIRO Seattle <---THAT we don't even hear about. The news media, paper and television, need a f**king overhaul.

[Pwnagraphic]

Originally Posted by Takelli

Playing WII on the job? Most people cant even check their phone message, even on their break. Why give the police any leverage?

Hence why I hate the police. They think the law doesn't affect them.

Who cares lol? I would have done it ha. I probly wound have eaten his good too. Shit, he's probly going to prison anyway.

[Malacite]

Originally Posted by Pwnagraphic

Who cares lol? I would have done it ha. I probly wound have eaten his good too. Shit, he's probly going to prison anyway.

Yeah, because it really sends a wonderful message to the rest of us knowing our public defenders are goofing off.

[Takelli]

Originally Posted by Pwnagraphic

Who cares lol? I would have done it ha. I probly wound have eaten his good too. Shit, he's probly going to prison anyway.

I do. The police are lacking on their job. A lot of them are Fat pigs as well. When I went to high school, the police officers in my school actually AVOIDED the fights, and where too fat to even fit in their lazy-boy chairs they sat in all day.

Now, don't get me wrong, Ia m not trying to offend anyone who has a family member who is part of the plice force, or anyone who is part of the police force, but I am talking from what I have observed from my school, and while traveling.

[Pwnagraphic]

Originally Posted by Malacite

Yeah, because it really sends a wonderful message to the rest of us knowing our public defenders are goofing off.

Our public defenders are people too, they can't have fun? Give me a break lol. Plus there's a lot of twisted cops that are deep in other things other than playing a Wii. So stop blowing it out of proportion.

Originally Posted by Takelli

I do. The police are lacking on their job. A lot of them are Fat pigs as well. When I went to high school, the police officers in my school actually AVOIDED the fights, and where too fat to even fit in their lazy-boy chairs they sat in all day.

Now, don't get me wrong, Ia m not trying to offend anyone who has a family member who is part of the plice force, or anyone who is part of the police force, but I am talking from what I have observed from my school, and while traveling.

That's people dude.. Young fit men don't become cops then decide to get fat and do nothing. You are taking that perception and applying it to every cop.

[Lmnop]

Originally Posted by Malacite

Yeah, because it really sends a wonderful message to the rest of us knowing our public defenders are goofing off.

THEY'RE STILL HUMAN.

We love every chance to talk trash about cops and generally distrust them, and at the same time we expect them to be completely devoid of any of the deficiencies the rest of us have.

People get to play FFXI while they work, ffs. It's not like their job is non-stop Jack Bauer.

I had about 5 police officers at my apartments just an hour ago (the apartment above me. they haven't found me yet). After they were done with their business, they stood around and chit-chatted with each other outside my front window for 5-10 minutes. Do I mind that they're having a pow-wow instead of tracking down the next big manhunt? Nope. They're human, they're at work, and work demands breaks.

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Not to say playing Wii at the scene of a raid is an OK thing to do. But hey, they already found drugs, the guy's stuff is prolly gonna get repo'd away anyway. It's not every police officer's job to find forensics everywhere. I see this exactly like when I'd go on delivery runs with my old boss and she'd decide we could take 4 hours to do a 30 minute job.

[Malacite]

When your job entails being ready to go at a moment's notice and quite possibly meaning the difference between life & death, no excuses.

[cidbahamut]

Originally Posted by Malacite

When your job entails being ready to go at a moment's notice and quite possibly meaning the difference between life & death, no excuses.

There is no one on the planet that could live up to that standard of vigilance.

[Empedocles]

Originally Posted by Lmnop

Jack Bauer.

Every time I see that name I'm going to post this.

YouTube- 24: I am Jack Bauer (subtitled Japanese commercial)

YouTube- 24: I am Jack Bauer (subtitled Japanese commercial)

okay maybe not every time.