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That's a pretty rough initiation for the rookie, I can't wait to hear the details on this one.



Edit: Would a "Rookie" sash help?
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Thank God he had his vest on.

good lord...this is the last kind of press the DPD needs in light of how much they've been in the news lately.
Also, I wonder which round the cop go shot with....DPD is only authorized to used 9mm or 357sig.
Im glad the 3 day rook is ok

I've read that some significant percentage of police officers who are issued vests don't wear them. I will bet that the rookie officer -- if he doesn't decide change careers to accounting -- will not ever be one of them. He'll probably wear it bed from now on.

ELB wrote:I've read that some significant percentage of police officers who are issued vests don't wear them. I will bet that the rookie officer -- if he doesn't decide change careers to accounting -- will not ever be one of them. He'll probably wear it bed from now own.

I'm not sure how much water this holds...

Every officer I know personally wears one...the only people at my dept that aren't required to wear one by police are the motors guys when its over 95 deg outside....but even they still do. In a neighboring dept there is literally only one officer that doesn't, but I have never met him.

gigag04 wrote: ...I'm not sure how much water this holds...

OK, so now you made me go look up where I read it....

% not wearing, according to various sources: (Binging only on "police officer body armor wear percentage")

40% http://policechiefmagazine.org/magazine ... _id=122007" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(also: "FBI statistics, though, show the percentage of officers murdered who weren't wearing vests has stayed between 33 and 44 over the past decade"

50% all or part of the time: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... rmor_N.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Speaking indirectly to this, "Only 59 percent of agencies require officers to wear body armor" http://www.policeone.com/columnists/Cra ... vey-shows/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Maybe some of the non-wearers work in the property room or something. Might be much more common among "street cops" than others.

But the actual percentage is irrelevent to my primary point -- Officer Rookie will not be one of them after getting an OJT lesson on body armor right off the bat.

elb

MedicMan218 wrote:good lord...this is the last kind of press the DPD needs in light of how much they've been in the news lately.
Also, I wonder which round the cop go shot with....DPD is only authorized to used 9mm or 357sig.
Im glad the 3 day rook is ok

Is that right? DPD can only use 9mm or 357 sig (a souped up 9mm)?

Oh well, I don't care, it just struck me as curious.

Oldgringo wrote:
Is that right? DPD can only use 9mm or 357 sig (a souped up 9mm)?

They'll both do the job just fine. Around here, I could see the 9mm so they can have every round they can carry in some neighborhoods that look like war zones.

If it includes all sworn peace officers (detectives, DA's investigators, railroad police, TWPD) then those numbers might jive. I have yet to see a patrol officer (which most americans identify as "the police") not to wear one.

Yeah, got a buddy that used to run the streets with me on the box and then got a job with DPD, that's what he told me.
And I think they are issued Sigs, I could be wrong on that one though.

I would rather be the one shot than the one shooting. The veteran officer will hear about this from other officers the rest of his career.