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My most sincere condolences to Michael Perry's family, friends and brothers and sisters in blue.

Actually, with the exception of the SOR vehicle's existence YES, the rest are all 'factpinions'. The existence of a relationship with the city/FD/PD is NOT a guarantee of future performance and in fact can be a negative because exceptions to agreements/rules/contracts are now pretty much expected or allowed (thats an opinion on my part). We can go back an forth with things that Company A has or does versus Company B has or does but at the end of the day, guess what? EMS IS A BUSINESS. There are no allegiances amongst companies, amongst municipalities, amongst workers. If Empress wants to make sure that they keep a contract, they have to make sure that they provide a service that is SO good that no one else can 1.) offer or 2.) actually provide. Does Empress do that for Yonkers, maybe, guess we'll find that out over the next few months. Did Empress do that for Mount Vernon? I'm gonna have to say no since Mount Vernon walked away from a 15 year relationship. As for the ins and outs of how or why that happened? I don't know the behind the door dealings but I do know that this is what can happen in ANY commercial provider agreement, any company is one handshake away from a 'contract', that's the nature of commercial EMS. To expect anything otherwise is laughable.

There is no 'contract', there is a response agreement. What did they offer? A second dedicated ambulance and a guaranteed better response time than Empress was providing. The city now tracks response time with Transcare, something it didn't do with Empress in the last few years. I love the assumptons left and right here, it's laughable. Assuming about training, ability to cover contracts, relationships, equipment and billing rates. LET'S NOT CHECK THE FACTS BEFORE WE POST, LET'S USE FACTPINIONS!!!

It was a pretty decent turnout, thanks to all that came.

Some departments have a '2 or 3 car involved in a pursuit' policy but if you have more than 2 or 3 jurisdictions involved it gets complicated. A chase that starts in Yonkers and ends up in, lets say Harrison will have Yonkers POs not knowing where they are going.

Bail is to ensure the return of a defendant to court, it is NOT designed to keep people that are a danger to the community off the streets.

Good job!

My condolences brother, godspeed.

Godspeed and a quick recovery.

That's Virginia for you! The state is very well known for not 'working together' and their state police have both cited and arrested other uniformed officer in MARKED cars before. This doesn't surprise me in the least. IF this were to ever happen in NY there would be utter outrage. In VA it seems as though its expected.

Kinda odd that car 16 has the license plate of 15.

Very nice.

How far down the M/A list is Mount Vernon? I know of past problems with FDMV M/A abuse, is it still occurring or has it stopped?

RIP Officer

They don't share dispatchers.

Transcare provides EMS in both Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, each with their own dedicated units. They use transport units to back the 911 ambulances but don't use 30A1, 30A2 or 30A3 to cover for 32A1 or 32B1.

The FD Commissioner asked to take it over. EMS still has a PD radio and a FD radio.

If MVPD had no issue with the radio traffic that dispatching EMS caused, why would dispatching EMS over FD be a problem?

They are posted out on the street.

The ALI showed it in Manhattan, it had a 212 number. The call taker mistakenly hit Brooklyn for the borough, apparently the caller was hysterical and could not give cross streets the first time...

Fantry in 2005, Ridley and Vize in 2008, Rice in 2010.

Godspeed Stan.

Impact with the state police has occured on less than 4 dates in the last 2-3 years. They are not assigned or designed to augment patrol, their role is traffic enforcement. The details with the County PD and MTA PD are also for DWI/traffic enforcement and are also limited to about once a year (the Border Patrols).

Mount Vernon has other agencies patrolling the city? This is news to me....

In three years they could, but with the turnover rate in Mount Vernon there are bound to be at least 50 people below them in seniority.