Officer Ed

Thank you, Seth my friend, for posting this. I knew that you had faced adversity in your life, but I didn't know the depth of it. Like you, I also lost the career I loved due to an injury. In my case, it was as a police officer and the injury was incurred in the line-of-duty. I then started an online business selling emergency vehicle equipment. Regardless, EMTBravo is a great site and an asset to firefighters (I was once a "volly", as they're called on the site). I still enjoy reading the posts and the comments. Take care. Ed www.dash-flash.com

Bah! That's the 2nd time I was chumped on April 1 this year!

As with all emergency lighting products, most are assembled in America using some off-shore components. Even Whelen uses Chinese LEDs. I don't think there are any emergency vehicle warning devices that have 100% U.S.-made components. Not because we wouldn't like to use them, but because no one in the U.S. makes them. Our Nightblaster™ off-road/work/scene light, for example, uses USA-made 3-watt Cree® LEDs. The cases and circuit boards were engineered in the U.S. and are manufactured to our specifications by a contract factory in Asia. That said, there are high-quality Chinese components and there are crap Chinese components and cheap knockoffs. Just because something is made in China does not automatically mean it is crap. The Dash-Flash® brand of emergency lights is very high quality with a failure rate of less than 1% and will stand up to any other name-brand product. I hope this answers your question. Ed

Happy Birthday, my friend! May you have many. many more!

I don't trust ANYTHING I read in the media, except maybe the weather report. Today's media is little more than entertainment, not "news." They intentionally withhold facts, twist the truth, and outright lie in order to sensationalize incidents and create controversy. As they say on XFiles, "the truth is out there." But you'll rarely get it from the "mainstream" media.

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1. Garner was not put in a "choke hold." That terminology is only used by the lying, sensationalizing media. He was put in a "carotid neck hold", which many police officers are trained in. The neck hold does NOT "choke" the suspect or restrict the airway at all. The neck hold is an alternative to using a baton or punching a resisting suspect and it has prevented thousands of injuries to suspects and officers. 2. Garner was morbidly obese and had asthma. He may have been on drugs. He overstressed his body by resisting arrest and fighting with the police. THAT caused him to suffer a heart attack, not anything the officer did. 3. He kept repeating "I can't breath" because he was having a heart attack, not because of anything the officer did. The media is sleazy. They will change facts, omit facts, and outright LIE to sensationalize stories like this. Look at all the omissions and lies they initially made in the Trayvon Martin case. It's almost like they are trying to incite race riots and violence against the police.

This entire incident is just another case of lying media sensationalism. The FACTS are: The officer did NOT put Garner in a "choke hold." He put him in a NECK RESTRAINT. Most officers are trained in the use of manual neck restraints. The restraint, or "neck hold" does NOT "choke" the suspect or restrict the airway in any way. The arm is positioned such that the airway is in the "crook" of the elbow and has an inch or two of room. Any pressure is applied to the sides of the neck only. Garner was morbidly obese. He had asthma. He was quite likely on drugs. He died of a heart attack when he over-stressed his body by resisting arrest and fighting with police. Garner was hardly "murdered", as many NY blacks are claiming. He basically killed himself by making the conscious decision to fight with police despite his medical conditions. It's just a shame that so many gullible readers fell for the sensationalism.

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K9s are great "tools"! From patrol dogs, to narcotics and bomb dogs, to accelerant/arson dogs, they greatly enhance our ability to serve the public.

Thank God. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not domestic violence calls that are the most dangerous for police officers, it's traffic stops. Drivers assault or shoot the officers; or other impaired drivers crash into them. I try to get motorists to pull as far off the road as possible and I always do a "passenger-side approach."

You'd be hard-pressed to find ANYONE who would be worse than the clown we have in the Whitehouse now. Maybe Nancy Pelosi........

The GOP doesn't claim Christie. He's a RINO and RINOs are closer to Democrats than to Republicans.

ARE they certified peace officers?

We'd be on the Bottom Ten.