Posts by jlynnj

I agree that no one is above the law but just b/c a few cops act that way doesn't mean they all do.  I know ALOT of cops and they still follow the laws just like everyone else should. They don't drink and drive, or speed, or steal or whatever else you can come up with. Being a cop is a job that the majority of people go into (notice I didn't say all) to HELP people. But all people want to do is bash them b/c of a few who are dumb@$$es. Although I do believe there should be no tolerance for dumb@$$es in a position of this type and should be screened harder and dealt with.

 The Top Misconceptions About Police Officers

·  1) Being a cop is a dangerous job. False: Being a cop is not even on the list of the top 15 most dangerous jobs in America. Being a cab driver is 50 times more dangerous than being a cop.

RESPONSE 1: These are all the Law Enforcement Officers that have lost their lives SO FAR this year Trooper Calvin W. Jenks, Deputy Sheriff Rahamy Mitchell, Police Officer Tyron Franklin, Detective Troy Lamont Chesley Sr., Sergeant James H. (Heath) Hardin, Sergeant Nicholas G. Sottile, Chief of Police Ernest V. Mendoza, Trooper Jose A. Rosado, Deputy Sheriff Alan Inzer, Deputy Sheriff Harold Michael (Mike) Altman, Police Officer Shawn Joshua Dean (Josh) Williams, Police Officer Ariel Anton Frett, Deputy Sheriff Daniel Browne-Sanchez, Police Officer Sean Wissink, Deputy Sheriff Michael Estes, Lieutenant Dexter Holcomb, Police Officer Charles J. Callemyn, Police Officer Anthony Jon Holly, Patrolman First Class Brian Coleman, Police Officer Stephen R. Jerabek, Detective Keith Dressel, Sergeant Howard J. Plouff, Deputy Sheriff Kevin Carper, Sergeant Tommaso Popolizio, Deputy Phillip Michael Deese, Auxiliary Police Officer Yevgeniy (Eugene) Marshalik, Auxiliary Police Officer Nicholas T. Pekearo, Trooper Todd Holmes, Border Patrol Agent Ramon Nevarez Jr., Border Patrol Agent David Tourscher, Game Warden Justin Hurst, Deputy Sheriff Manuel Villegas, Deputy Sheriff Eric Sikes, Senior Corporal Mark Timothy Nix, Officer Daniel C. Martinez, Police Officer Lonnie Wells, Petty Officer Ronald Gill, Police Officer Doug Byrne, Corporal Marcus Stiles, Police Officer Sean Clark, Constable Ronnie K. Jones, Police Officer Jeff Shelton, Deputy Sheriff Jason Lee Saunders, Lieutenant Corey Dahlem, Special Agent Barry Lee Bush, Police Officer Thomas Devlin, Police Officer Wayne Pitt, Police Officer Robert Winget, Police Officer Thomas Lindsey, Lieutenant Delmar Teagan, Police Officer Andrew Esparza, Police Officer Jason Campbell, Deputy Sheriff Philip A. Rodriguez, Corporal Nick Samuel Polizzotto, Police Officer Luke T. Hoffman, Trooper David Brinkerhoff, Air Interdiction Agent Clinton B. Thrasher, Police Officer Lisa Beaulieu, Sergeant Eric Smith, Deputy Sheriff Raul V. Gama, Police Officer Alan Christopher Silver, Police Officer David Young, Chief Investigator Alex Roy (Al) Suarez Sr., Police Officer Robert (Tim) Buckman, Corporal Bruce McKay, Border Patrol Agent Richard Goldstein, Agent Rafael Santana-Cruz, Police Officer William (Nichie) Preslar, State Constable Robert Lee Bailey, Deputy Sheriff Frank Fabiano Jr., Deputy Sheriff Paul Steven Habelt, Deputy Sheriff Tony Price Ogburn, Police Officer Lee Newbill, Deputy Sheriff Marvin Jerome Scarlett, Officer Harry Joseph Coelho, Probation Officer David Poling, Agent José Fontañez-Correa, Air Interdiction Agent Robert Smith, Officer Jason West, Game Warden Teyran (Ty) Patterson, Officer Jeffrey Howard (Jeff) McCoy, Special Agent Ryan A. Balmer, Special Agent Matthew Joseph Kuglics, Deputy First Class Hilery A. Mayo Jr., Officer Robert Franklin Dickey, Chief of Police Randy Lacy, Patrolman Christopher Mirabal, Sergeant Linden (Beau) Raimer, Deputy Kelly James Fredinburg, Officer Frank C. Denzinger, Corporal Scott Wheeler, Sergeant Justin Thompson, Corrections Officer Stephen Anderson, Deputy Sheriff Charles Cook, Deputy Sheriff Michael Page, Police Officer Adam Joseph Menuez, Master Trooper David Edward Rich, Deputy Sheriff Joshua Norris, Police Officer Dayle Weston (Wes) Hardy, Police Officer Robert (Bobby) Kozminski, Sergeant Karl Strohsal, Police Officer Russel Timoshenko, Deputy Sheriff William John Walters, Chief Deputy Tommy Martin, Border Patrol Agent Eric N. Cabral, Police Officer George Valentino Cortez Jr., Officer Douglas Scott Russell, Special Agent Kimberly D. Place, Special Deputy Stephen Bollinger, Chief of Police David Gerald Richard, Detective John Smith, Detective Charles (Chuck) Wilson, Sergeant Christopher Reyka, Patrolman Benjamin (BJ) Wilcher Jr., Deputy Chief George (Bill) Stanford, Sergeant Ron Harrison, Police Officer Norvelle Brown, Detective Corporal Kenneth Armstrong, Policeman Walter T. Barclay Jr., Reserve Deputy Joe Bill Galloway, Trooper Jack P. Holland II, and Officer Germaine Casey. As of August 27, 2007, and I knew four of them personally.

       &nb sp;    You can tell all 122 of these families that the job that their loved ones did was not Hazardous. All of them occurred while on duty. 62 of them were murders. Being a law enforcement officer is on the top ten list for most hazardous jobs in America, right under being a firefighter. (Askmen.com) "The men in Blue: policemen. Often chastised, vilified, criticized… sometimes justifiable, sometimes unfairly. Regardless, most times, a policeman is a sign of peace, calm, and reassurance, these men and women have some of the most stress-packed jobs in the world." Dennis O'Connell explains. As my mother would say " when doing a traffic stop, I don't know if I'm pulling over grandma who just got finished with her granddaughters school play, or if I'm pulling over a murderer that just did his last kill and is setting me up!" How many other jobs do you know that get targeted just for the uniform that they wear?

·  2) Cops in the U.S are highly trained. False: Cops in the U.S. only receive 9 to 12 weeks of training, sometimes alot less, one of the lowest in the industrialized world. Cops in most other countries receive at least 104 weeks of training, (two years) and usually require an education.

RESPONSE 2: You are right; they do receive 9 to 12 weeks training. Do you know what that is for? That is JUST so they can get on with a department. Do you realize that after they have completed the academy, they have to ride along with what is called and FTO for several months? Then after the "rookie" is allowed to ride by them selves, they have monthly, sometimes weekly training sessions (that all officers attend, "rookie" or not). There are several courses that an officer has to take to while employed with a department. K-9, they have a class, Rescue Divers, they have a class, SERT or SWAT, they have a class too. Everything has a class, and at all times there is usually always someone who has to take off work to, you guessed take another class. I cannot tell you the number of times that mother had to go out of town for a week sometimes two, to take a class. My husband has been out of town for classes, and my best friend, who also happens to be a law enforcement officer; well he goes out of town a lot too, for classes. Law enforcement officers are always taking more classes to better their skills. So as you can see, the training doesn't stop after 12 weeks. It last the ENTIRE time a person is in law enforcement. They don't just hand you a dog and say "go be a K-9 officer".  They don't just hand you scuba diving gear and say "hey you go jump in that river and find that dead body". You have to get trained to do it.

·  3) Cops are chosen because of their superior decision making skills. False: A report by the federal government states that over 90% of cops on duty in the U.S. barely passed high school or received a GED.

RESPONSE 3: I would like to know how well you did in high school. Did you also know that about 1/3 of today's youth drops out of high-school? It isn't until they get into college that today's youth start to take learning seriously. Why you ask, because they are studying what they want to be learning, not what they have to. When future law enforcement officers go to the academy they are studying what they want to be learning. Not everyone can afford to go to college, and not everyone wants to be paying on loans until they die for the classes that they took when they were in their 20's.

What about the officers that do have their education? You didn't mention those people. My mother was a law enforcement officer for years and she has her master's degree. Most officers that I personally know are going to college, while working 12 hours shifts, 6 days a week , and still being called in for overtime AND passing all of their courses. What about those officers? How many bad choices have you made in your life? Do you feel like the choices that you made when you were a teenager should affect you well into your 40's and 50's? You stated later, that cops are NOT experts at anything, but yet you want to judge as if they SHOULD be better then you. You cannot have it both ways, they should either be considered superior and have all these guidelines to follow, and they should have to act a certain way. Or they should be the same as you, with you understanding that everyone has their faults and they should not have to be chastised for them years later.

·  4) Cops are morally superior to regular citizens. False: Out of 750,000 cops in the U.S. over 11,000 are indicted each year for felony crimes. That's 32.8 per day. This is only a drop in the bucket, most cop violations go unreported.

RESPONSE 4: Let me spell this out for you … seven HUNDRED and fifty-THOUSAND cops in the U.S. and ONLY eleven thousand have been indicted each year for felony crimes. Let me ask you this. Did you bother to look up what happened to those officers after they have been indicted? And if most cop "violations" go UNreported, then you have nothing to report on, because there was nothing to REPORT.

As you know there is always one bad apple in a batch. Nobody is perfect, but they do the best that they can. Its like this everywhere you look, with teachers you are going to have that one bad teacher. Even in the NFL, you are going to have that one player that uses drugs and takes steroids and the NFL takes care of him right? But do you still hate ALL of the other football players because of that one guy. No you are still sitting in front of you TV on Sunday nights watching 'your' team try for another victory. And every now and then there is going to be a bad cop. But as soon as it is realized, everything that can be done is being done to protect the people and other law enforcement officers from this bad "apple".

·  5) Cops are not civilians. False: Cops are civilians, they are civil servants protected by the Civil Service Act. Only elected officials and military personnel are government officials. Not appointed offices such as law enforcement officers, deputies, civil servants, government contractors or government employees. The only law enforcement officer that is not a civilian is a Sheriff, because he is elected.

RESPONSE 5: I apologize to the people that seem to think that officers are not civilians. They in fact very much are. No one is denying that matter at all. However, throughout this whole thing all you seem to be doing is telling everyone that law enforcement officers are the same as everyone else. Then why do you insist that they should be judged as if they are not?

·  6) Cops are legal experts. False False False: Cops are not experts at anything, especially law. If any cop tells you he is a legal expert, call your local Bar Associations Unlicensed Practice of Law Branch.

RESPONSE 6: Law Enforcement officers go to the academy to Learn the law, among other things, so they can Enforce it. While they may not be an EXPERT at it, they do know a thing or two.

On a different note, what does "Cops are not experts at anything" have to do with it. Do you realize that in Law Enforcement, there are some men and women that come straight from the military and may be EXPERT marksmen? Some officers have other special skills, like my husband for instance, He is a master Scuba Diver, and he uses his skills every time he has to dive in nasty water to retrieve something or someone.  Those are just examples, there are many other things and many other people that have a talent or are an EXPERT in something, and sometimes is helps them out with the job that they have to perform.

·  7) Cops can give you legal advice. False: Only a licensed attorney can give you legal advice. If a cop suggests any legal action report it to the State Bar.

RESPONSE 7: I've heard my mother say this many times "I'm not a lawyer I cannot give you legal advice." Law Enforcement Officers are there to enforce the law. They can tell you what is right and what is wrong LEGALLY, but they cannot give you advice on legal matters.

·  8) Cops are under paid. False: They are well paid for a job that requires no education, unskilled, minimally trained low risk labor, with government benefits and retirement.

RESPONSE 8: I'm going to answer this one, one step at a time.

 1 a job that requires no education- 1st they go to 9 to 12 weeks of training. Then they go to training at least once a month, most of the time more than that. But we will give you the benefit of the doubt and say training once a month, which is 12 times a year. Depending on whether they are k-9 or swat etc, you have another training day once a month, so now you have two training classes each meets once a month. I'm at 24 now. This equals to about 4 weeks a year, plus the 9 to 12 weeks of the academy which equals 16 weeks. Now you add every time an officer has to take off work to go to a training class that last from 1 week to 2 weeks, this can happen as many times as necessary and as many times as the department will allow. So we will say 3 times a year they leave for 2 weeks for more training. 3 times 2 is 6. You have to have 30 years of service before you can retire, so 6 times 30 is 180 then add in the original 16 weeks and you have 196 weeks of training which about 4 years. How long is college? 4 years. On top of all that there are a lot of officers that are going to college while doing everything else as well. The officers are plenty educated!

2 Unskilled-4 years of training I'm sure they are skilled at something. If you go to college for 4 years and get your degree in photography or whatever, you are going to be skilled at what you do.

3 Minimally Trained- a department has paid for their officers to go to 4 years of training. How is that minimally trained?

4 low risk- Are you going to run into a shoot out to safe the victims or to arrest the subject? Are you going to go to a house where a man has threatened to kill anyone who comes close? Are going to wear a uniform and a badge, when to most people you mind as well wear a target sign on your forehead? How is any of this LOW RISK? This job may not be on the top ten most dangerous list, but it is certainly not a low risk job!

So how much money would you want to get paid for 4 years of education plus whatever you did on the side, and being skilled at what you do, being highly trained, for having a high risk job, and having to deal with people like you on a daily basis?

·  9) Cops are society's best people. False: Some departments have been found to have convicted felons in uniform and as high up as the highest ranking officers in their precincts.

RESPONSE 9: Where are you coming up with society's best? You want to assume since they have the job that they have they should be of a certain code. But in the same breath you want them to be just like you and you want to judge them as so. What to do you want? I have said it before there are bad "apples" every where. You have one bad apple in the batch; you are going to throw them all away?

·  10) Police do a good job of policing themselves. False: Insider information has reported to us that it is most departments' policies to use internal affairs to cover up anything that would embarrass a department's administration. Unless it is caught on record or reported by the media. Letting cops police themselves is the same as letting the inmates run the prisons. Vote for any local change in your community to put citizen review boards in charge of police discipline matters.

RESPONSE 10: Let me start off by saying, that 9 times out 10 the only thing the media wants to report is the dirt. What about all the good that officers do? You don't hear about that! Think about it, where would we be today if there were no police officers at all? That means when you dial 911 for someone to help you because John Doe just broke into your house and raped you, nobody answers, why because it doesn't exist. That means that someone on the street can walk up to you and blow you a way and nobody would do a thing about it! So think about everything that they have done for us, instead of some of the bad things that have happened.

Now I would like to point out "letting cops police themselves is like letting the inmates run the prisons". First off, who do you think runs those prisons to begin with? Correctional OFFICERS, so obviously they are doing something right.  That comment is also comparing a cop to a rapist and a child molester.  The only thing that connects to two is the fact that the cop arrested his ass and put him there!

Now-"Vote for any local change in your community to put citizen review boards in charge of police discipline matters"

So this is what you are saying. "You are paid too much, your unskilled, minimally trained, uneducated, and this guys starts firing off rounds at you, and because I have no idea what you go through on a daily bases, I'm telling you that you cant fire back, because you might kill him. I realize that he is trying to kill you, but you should be above that even though you are uneducated, minimally trained, and unskilled. And if you do fire back, I'm going to lock you up for the rest of your life." Please tell me how this makes since?

"Citizens" are not trained to do the job that they do everyday. They are NOT put in a situation where it is a life or death matter. You cannot possibly ask them to just judge some one who is.

· Remember, we are the taxpayers, the cops are our employees, Stop letting them get away with murder!

RESPONSE 11: You are right, you do pay taxes. But in case you forgot, so do cops! So if you really want to look at it like that. All cops are self employed! "Stop letting them get away with murder!" where did that come from? Not once throughout this whole thing have you mentioned anything about murder, you can't just throw it in there with no back-up (no punt intended) and expect it to mean something.

I do need to say this; I know that not all officers are saints. I know that some officers that wear that badge don't deserve to wear it. But most officers, like my husband, train their whole lives to be cop. When they finally make it, they are proud! My husband is proud to put on that uniform everyday. He is proud to serve and protect you and me. He doesn't do this job for the money, and you have made it very clear that he doesn't do this job for the recognition. But he still gets up every morning a 4am, he still puts on that uniform, he still pins on that badge, and he still signs on in the mornings at 5am. Why, because he LOVES his job, he loves to make a difference, he loves to help people. I apologize that you had a bad run in with a bad cop, but to sit there and assume that every cop is the same that is wrong. My husband is NOT a bad cop, He is a good cop, and he is a good man. You are NOT there when he leaves for work every morning, and I say prayer that he makes it home safe. You are NOT there when he comes home and I thank GOD he does everyday. You are not there when he wakes up in the middle of the night screaming, because of a dream that he had about a bad call he had to respond to. And you are NOT there when he has had a long day a work, and he comes home literally crying (a grown man crying) because he couldn't save that little boy's life today. And after all of this you are not there when this man is in his 60s and everything that he went through in his 20s 30s and 40s are still affecting him.  This job takes everything out of him, there is barely anything left for me. But he loves it, and I'm proud to be a deputy's wife! And I am proud of every man and woman that he works with! It is truly a family and until you have seen it, been through it, and have done it, you have NO right judge every cop!

IN CONCULSION

*Next time you need to call the cops, call a CAB instead because what they do is more dangerous!*

Name:  JLynn
Age:  26
Height:  5'6
Start Weight:  159
Goal Weight (by September 29):  154

1/9/08:159
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Sorry I'm late on weigh in!

I myself have huge compassion and care for each and everyone having to evacuate the gulf coast cities. These people are scared. Can you imagine coming back to a house where everything you own is gone and completly ruined? I have several friends from New Orleans that have had that happen to them in Katrina. I myself live in the state of Louisiana in Shreveport. We are housing probably half of the evacuees in our area alone. There are numerous shelters and closed businesses opening up their doors to TOTAL STRANGERS. So my area is pretty much right in the middle of it, so unless you have any respectful or compassionate comments to make, keep your negative comments to yourself. Open up your heart and mind  show a little positive feeling you know you would want it if the tables were turned.

I'm in again!

restless girl Thanks for the comment! I'm motivated this week is going to be good one even if it kills me! HA! Not really but I'm gonna stay more on top things!

Name Jlynn:
Age: 26
Height: 5'6
Start Weight: 164
Goal Weight (by August 29): 155

1/8/08:164
8/8/08: 162
15/8/08:
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29/8/08:

Total weight loss: 2 lbs

I'm actually in cosmetology school right now  and a bunch of the girls got a wild hair and bought some of those pink clipins from sally's and they look so fake. You know how the hair on a barbie doll looks? All synthetic and plastic like. That's exactly what those look like and the clips came off of their's so  a couple of the girls had them braided and glued in. I agree with lippygal, definitely go better quality and if you want to get them glued, sewn or braided in go to a pro.

But if your just looking for something fun to play around with go for it! The girls at school had a blast with them!

Name:JLynn
Age: 26
Height: 5'6
Start Weight:169
Goal Weight (by August 1st):159

1/7/08:169
8/7/08:169
15/7/08:168
22/7/08:167
29/7/08:164

Total weight loss: 5lbs!

Count me in for the month of August!

bbq sauce- hot wings

Name:  JLynn
Age:  26
Height:  5'6
Start Weight:  169
Goal Weight (by August 1st):  159

1/7/08:169
8/7/08:169
15/7/08:168
22/7/08:167
29/7/08:

Total weight loss: 2

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NT Old School

Star Wars

Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

Name: JLynn
Age: 26
Height: 5'6
Start Weight: 169
Goal Weight (by August 1st): 159

1/7/08:169
8/7/08:169
15/7/08:168
22/7/08:
29/7/08:

Total weight loss: 1

Pirates of the Carribean

What am I supposed to say? I went to magic camp. I am an accomplished ventriloquist. I am a seventh-degree imperial yo-yo master. Oh do me yo-yo master I want you to do me 'cause you're the yo-yo guy.