"U raise 'em, we cage 'em."

[Krugerrand]

School police union slammed for edgy t-shirts
http://news.yahoo.com/school-police-union-slammed-edgy-t-shirts-185602644.html


NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California school police officers union has angered a town after it sold T-shirts with a picture of a child behind bars and the slogan: "U raise 'em, we cage 'em."

Town leaders said the fundraising shirts are highly offensive and fuel mistrust of the Twin Rivers Police Department in North Highlands, the Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/sDbEnl ) reported Tuesday.

"Unfortunately, this shirt seems to confirm that this is who Twin Rivers Police are and how they think, or at least some of them," Derrell Roberts said. "This doesn't speak highly of the culture of this department." [light bulb moment ???]

The Twin Rivers Police Officers Association officials said they came up with the T-shirt idea in 2009 to raise money for fallen officers. Less than 30 shirts were ordered and most were sold for $12 to union members.

Association President Arlin Kocher said the shirts were a mistake and that the union stopped selling them this summer at the police chief's request.

"I don't think this will be received well by the public, which is why we stopped selling them," Kocher said. "Our union, especially me, take full responsibility." [does full responsibility mean resignation? or did he give himself 3-weeks paid administrative leave?]

What will it take for people to wake up?

http://media.sacbee.com/smedia/2011/10/31/19/59/eDukf.Em.4.jpg

[angelatc]

Pennsylvania wants to order some.

[Seraphim]

WTF?

[Sola_Fide]

From school to prison baby. You silly Mundanes think you are ever free from the control of our wise overlords?

[Krugerrand]

From original source, this police unit is SICK - keep in mind these are school police:

In the last two years, the department has three cases in which officers shot and wounded suspects.

With an annual operating budget of $3.7 million, it has 20 sworn officers.

State education code permits school districts to form police departments. Statewide, there are 22, although most are in Southern California.

In recent months, community members have questioned why Twin Rivers officers are making off-campus traffic stops and responding to City Police and Sheriff's calls.

Last week, local law enforcement leaders chastised Twin Rivers for "call jumping," or responding to calls they were not dispatched to.

The issue of "call jumping" dates back at least to January 2010, when Sacramento County Sheriff's Chief Deputy R.C. Smith addressed the issue in a letter to Twin Rivers Chief Breck.

"Over the past year the Twin Rivers District Police Department increasingly has been responding to Sheriff's Department calls for service that are unrelated to and geographically removed from Twin Rivers School District facilities or programs," Smith wrote in the letter, obtained by The Bee through a Public Records Act request.

"Almost all were without the solicitation of the Sheriff's Department."
...
"I know how it looks to a lot of people," Cho said. "That's not how the officers feel. They truly care about kids. As hard as it is to understand, it's cop humor."

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/11/01/4020655/twin-rivers-police-association.html#ixzz1cYBQAtlM

[LibertyEagle]

That is disgusting!!

[zach]

About that "Serve and Protect" motto....

[Krugerrand]

About that "Serve and Protect" motto....

CCTelander is offline now, so I'll bump his "The Myth of Police Protection" thread for him.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?228509-The-Myth-of-Police-Protection

[jkr]

bluEMeanies

[Elwar]

From prison to prison baby.

fixed

[phill4paul]

Government institutionalizing citizens from birth to death? Say it ain't so.

[moostraks]

nothing like having the truth slap you in the face...lol

honesty is very rarely appreciated

[flightlesskiwi]

"cop humor" eh? that sounds about right.

"we 'care for children', but we don't mind flaunting and laughing about our absolute tyrannical above-the-rule-of-law monopolistic sociopathic stranglehold over you and them." it's all for a good laugh.

[pcosmar]

That is disgusting!!

That is reality.
and yes,, it is disgusting.

:mad:

[tfurrh]

I wonder if Dante's Inferno could be rewritten to work in a "Bad Cop" circle of Hell.

[unklejman]

What's worse are the comments on the yahoo article.

[libertyjam]

School police union slammed for edgy t-shirts


What will it take for people to wake up?


And why TF is there such a thing as a "School Police Union"?

[Anti Federalist]

What's worse are the comments on the yahoo article.

You had to make me go look.

[phill4paul]

But, but, the police are our friends. They are regular family members that PUT THEIR LIVES on the line to make sure that THE REST OF US are safe. You can't take a story like this and paint them ALL in a bad light. For every ONE story like this there are thousands of untold ones in which an officer has saved a kitten or ticketed the asshole that took MY parking lot. Or something like that......

[flightlesskiwi]

You had to make me go look.





Robin • Monterey Park, United States • 2 hours ago

What GOOD parent would be bothered by these t-shirts? The only ones that are offended by the t-shirts are crummy parents that raised crummy kids who are always in jail, suspended from school or on probation. Their supporters are the creepy liberals that will crusade for any imagined injury! The truth hurts!

translation:

i'm a good lil' mundane, i don't get offended because i am good. and i don't care if they look, i have nothing to hide. all you people who are offended by this are bad mundanes and i will report you to our overlords if i have to.

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/School-vs.-Prison.jpg

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/storage/2011/2011-11-november/Travel%20School%20Prison.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVE RSION=1319572920963

[phill4paul]

[CENTER]http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/School-vs.-Prison.jpg


Add military to that list.

[Romulus]

That's messed up. But we all knew that.

[LibForestPaul]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/School-vs.-Prison.jpg

http://www.dollarvigilante.com/storage/2011/2011-11-november/Travel%20School%20Prison.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVE RSION=1319572920963

Can we get these as shirts???