Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 4026 AMERICAN POLICE BEAT: JUNE 2016 YOUR COMMENTS, THOUGHTS, & RANTS Want to sound off on the goings- on in law enforcement? Email us at info@apbweb.com or post your comments on our Facebook page or website. Hope it circulates Iam a retired Port Author- ity of NY & NJ police officer and am grateful you ran a story on Capt. Barry Galfano, an NYPD officer who died from a 9/11 related cancer. My department lost 37 officers on 9/11 in addition to a K-9. Many of them were personal friends and co-workers. God knows how many of our surviving rescue personnel will also be stricken by cancer or other serious diseases. I can only hope that Bar- ry’s story circulates widely and the public can gain a true picture of self-sacrificing men and women like Barry who have chosen a career in law enforcement. – Joe Seda jseda@eComSystems.com We do not make the laws As law enforcement peo- ple we do not make or change the laws. We merely enforce them. Like a union official who finds that more than 90% of their time is spent attending to less than 5% of their membership, when we enforce the laws on behalf of the citizens, we deal with a very small per- centage of the population, most of whom are far less fortunate than most. And some of these laws that we are forced to enforce make the luster of our profession very thin. – R. Karl Burnett Privacy or security? Regarding the “Privacy or Security – Choose One,” editorial in your April issue, I have mixed feelings regarding the Apple vs. FBI conflict, but ended up siding with Apple. I do not trust the govern- ment, regardless of which political party is calling the shots. The most amount of trust I ever had in the US government was during the Reagan years, and even then there were issues. I was regular Army from late 1986 until mid-1991 sta- tioned on the DMZ in South Korea, and Fort Campbell. While at Campbell, I had deployments to Central America and ended my en- listment with Desert Storm. I started law enforcement as a career in 1993, policing in a city of 60,000 residents and retired from there in 2013. I did a tour in the Army Reserves from 2000- 2004. In 2014, I began my second law enforcement ca- reer as a detective in a state agency. Our Constitutional rights are being eroded one execu- tive order and one Supreme Court decision at a time. I certainly want terrorism stopped, but giving Federal agents unrestricted access to our cell phones isn’t the answer. I’ll use my privacy and my 2nd Amendment rights to protect myself. – James McCubbins You could be a winner! The International Associ- ation of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Cisco Systems are accepting applications for their Community Polic- ing Awards. The winners will be honored at the 2016 IACP Annual Conference and Exposition in San Diego in October. This is a great way to show- case your agency’s positive efforts at building partner- ships within your commu- nity. Special recognition will be given for the use of the community policing philoso- phy in a homeland security initiative, as well as the best use of technology in a com- munity policing effort. Visit the IACP’s Com- munity Policing Committee webpage to register and sub- mit an application. To learn more visit www.theiacp.org. Here’s some of the issues trending on the APB website and Facebook page. What’s up with filming cops? We recently had a story on our website about a kerfuffle involving police in Virginia getting jammed up after seiz- ing a man’s phone during a routine arrest. Here are your comments. [Editor’s note; these are people from Facebook who may or may not be in law enforcement.] Hilarious It’s hilarious people like to cite a “court decision” which in fact was a civil suit that involved a settlement approved by the court. No judge made a decision on this and the US Supreme Court has never ruled on the issue of the public filming police actions. – Lonnie M. Giavelli I don’t care if someone is filming me, it’s the an- tagonizing. And making the concerted effort to make the situation worse by scream- ing and yelling and getting the crowd going – in my opinion – should be an ar- restable offense. – James Ca I whip out my phone and film them. They don’t like that and both of us stop. – Mark B. Blocher Aim at a cop? Topic: Nevada Assemblywom- an Michele Fiore (R), who is currently seeking her party’s nomination for an open U.S. House seat, said last week that she believes the right to self defense includes the right to aim your gun anyone who aims a gun at you, even if they are a law enforcement officer. (See story on page 18) Nuts Is this woman a lunatic? I hope the voters of Nevada take note who they are elect- ing to run their state. Maybe she should go out and dem- onstrate the proper way to point a gun at law enforce- ment. I’m sure there would be a vacancy for her position very quickly. Somebody there should ask her to take a drug test too. – Mark B. Blocher No way... She cannot be that stupid. If the cop is pointing a gun at you, they have a very good reason. If you pull your gun and point it at them, you are going to get shot. Who elected this idiot to serve in the legislature? – Hamid Hooshmand Moron This person must get tick- ets on a regular basis, or have spent a lot of time in jail, to even talk like that. – Austin Taylor Bouchard t)PTUBHF/FHPUJBUJPOT t.PCJMF$PNNBOE t.PCJMF1SFDJODUT t5SBJOJOH$FOUFST t%6*5FTUJOH