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I just took a ride by the Yorktown Friendly's and it's dark, no sign on the doors or anything though. I would've taken a picture but there are a bunch of people hanging around the ice cream window, and I can't figure out if its a odd memorial, employees that didn't get the memo, or the zombie apocalypse has begun and the walking dead like fribbles and very slow service.

Maybe because the residents of all of these muncipalities utliize the bridge that the Tarrytown apparatus would be protecting? Because the bridge is vital to the entire region which would make it a worthy investment? Wouldn't the economic strength of cities like Yonkers and New Ro benefit from businesses in those cities abilty to attract workers from the other side of the bridge? Or the ability to move their products over the bridge? This is a big picture argument. Tarrytown is (partly) responsible for the protection an important piece of the whole area's critical infrastructure. Why shouldn't they get the tools they need to get the job done?

Are these unmarked Tahoe's actually made higher or are they the normal police package SUV's that just look higher than the usual SP Tahoe's that are pursuit rated with the lower suspension?

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It is a good question. Two things. One, the other exemptions for weapons offenses in the penal law address classes of individuals, police officers, peace officers, military, manufacturers, dealers, people possessing weapons on theie way to turn them in, etc. The status of individual weapons aren't addressed. Second, and more importantly I feel, is that departments don't always or can't issue weapons to their officers. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but when I joined the NYPD in the 90's, I had to "purchase" my own duty gun. I say "purchase" because we were told that the PBA picked up the tab for the gun, but we had to pay for the night sights(which still seems strange, but anyway). I had to privately purchase any backup/off-duty firearms on my own. I'm curious to your reasoning for prohibiting privately owned firearms by police officers. Isn't the whole (stated) aim of these recent gun control measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally/emotionally unstable? As a police officer, I can't keep my job if I'm either of those, which would make me a private citizen again, which would then prohibit me like anyone else. Not only that, and maybe I shouldn't use logic here when talking about politicans, but isn't another aim of this to help law enforcement? Why wouldn't we as a society want police to be weapons-proficient, which would lead to non-duty ownership of firearms by police officers? The police in Mumbai were fighting terrorists during the hotel attack a few years with WWI era rifles they had never trained on before, and some officers had never had any firearms training, and were unarmed as they engaged the terrorists, do we really want anything like that here?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-passes-1st-gun-control-bill-newtown-school-massacre-article-1.1240644#ixzz2IFRQHnD6 Whoops. If the new sections of the penal law weren't included in the exemptions section of PL265.20 (which I can't seem to find anywhere that they were), this would mean that not only the police are not exempt, but also peace officers, and the military, both state National Guard and federal regular service members. Will the governor send the state police (with their now illegal ten round Glock 37 magazines, unless they download three rounds) over to West Point, Camp Smith, Fort Drum, etc. to collect all non-compliant items from the military?

Nassau County PD just closed half of their precincts. It's not that simple. If your commute was mainly on local roads (or outside of Cortlandt or Ossining, or the airport) then OK. Otherwise, the County PD and the Troopers patrol the highways, of course you'll see more of them. I live in northern Westchester now and around home I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a local patrol car, but on my commute to work the county and state are all over the place. And as to the beefed up SP coverage on the Taconic, they just graduated their first academy class in three years, and those rookies need to be field trained. Good for the County and State and the flexibilty they have to be extremely proactive. Maybe they have enough flexibility to help us locals with the "routine" calls like leaf blowers, flooded basements, school crossings, and the like that our residents expect us to handle. Not complaining at all, because in this instance it's apples and oranges....tough to compare law enforcement agencies with (at times) very different missions. As a local police officer, I also kinda resent the insinuation that my department's limited resources are anything less than an "advanced level of serivce...with 100% dedication and professionalism to the community" just because we have less cars and cops on the road. We're all doing our best as we "do more with less". PS, I'm not picking on you at all Seth, and I have great professional and personal relationships with many troopers and county cops. Seeing the issue from different perspectives - I've worked on the biggest job in the area, I'm currently working on a rather small job, and with relatives on LI PD's, my feeling is that the issue is a lot more complicated than just rolling everyone into one Westchester County PD.

How many of the 54 deaths were "self-initiated"? When I worked in Transit I'd have to say off the top of my head that 80% (edit: at the very least) of the "man unders" I responded to were suicides or attempts, with pretty much the rest being accidents. I also recall reading a recent story from Long Island of a male who was struck by a train, survived, released from the hospital, only to jump in front of another train the following day and kill himself. Perhaps some would be discouraged, but all the barriers in the world would only delay the inevitable for most of these folks.

Unless someone in the car is using some other form of DPF besides the vehicle against the MOS or a third party. Which may have occurred here, we don't know yet. If not, as it's been stated, the officer may be in violation of the Patrol Guide and may not be indemnified and could be fired, but couldn't be criminally charged because he would be justified under PL article 35 and case law (Tennessee v. Garner).

The NYPD doesn't recognize the vehicle alone being used against an MOS as DPF as per department policy in the Patrol Guide, I'm well aware of that, I kinda remember that test in the academy. My issue was with the media stating that she was unarmed. This case (so far), the Bell case, and even the Pleasantville case all appear to be "clean" uses of DPF, within the PL, case law, and even job policy. This Penal Law goes for the whole state....even NYC, contrary to the T/S operator from the 19th a few years ago (on unrelated nonsense) that told us Westchester bumpkins me (ex-transit) and my two colleagues (ex 19 and 26 pct's) that the "New York City Penal Code is totally different than what you guys have upstate".

She was armed...with the vehicle, dangerous instrument as per the NYS penal law. Some in the press have left out that she was in a stolen car that was reported as carjacked, and also she apparently had priors for kidnapping and attempted murder. Not a babe in the woods here it seems. Have any media outlets posted the deceased's communion photo yet?

I give the antennas two weeks.

When I left in '02, I had a portable assigned to me. It wasn't automatic but if they wanted to find out if I had transmitted something, they could. Different agencies? What about different bureaus of the same agency? I can't tell you how many times I'd be fixed on a plat or by the booth minding my own business and half a precinct would come running up to me looking for the "unconfirmed 10-13 in transit" that came over the street radios. And of course, we'd get it 10-15 minutes later from our central. The best "unauthorized transmission" I heard was "District XX portable, central...Can you raise the ICO?, I believe he just left the command" So much for silly codewords.

Much like the NY Times' motto of "All the news that's fit to print", the JN really should adopt "Usually under-informed" as their tagline.

Still with the sabers? Jeeze. Our guys up here in Westchester get bent over a little static, and I have to remind myself that in Transit I had solo posts where most of my stations had radio malfunctions. Not to toot my own horn, but in the summer of '01 me and two of our RMP guys were getting an award at a Compstat meeting for making a collar on a street caper that ended up in transit. The RMP guys (who had the city radio in the car but were on the other side of the command) heard a heavy precinct job had the presence of mind to relay it over the Transit radio, just as the perp literally walked right by me at the booth. I remember Chief Ansbro talking to the three of us on the side and saying "boys, we'll all be long gone before they ever sort out this radio mess".....how unfortunately true.