>>>>>>> We have what is known as the "use of force continuum". We are permitted to operate one level above the aggressor.
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>>>>>>I never knew that. Sounds simple and reasonable.
>>>>>Yep, criminal uses hands, we use CS spray, tazers, stun guns or batons. They use stun guns, etc. we use real guns....
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>>>>They use a stick... you use a bigger stick. That would be a sweet cop t-shirt.
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>>>Not quite, they use a stick, we use a gun. they use a gun, we use lots o guns!
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>>Hmmm... I like the second one.
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>>BTW, I caught about 20 minutes of Heat on cable this afternoon, and that was crazy. I had never seen it before. It was the gunfight in the steets with the assault weapons. De Niro is a legitimate badass. I also caught Meet the Parents tonight also, and he is a BA in that movie too!
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>Anyone can be a badass on film. Real "badasses" usually die early because people who aren't "badasses" don't like being bullied and they will slip up behind a real "badass" and kill them. I always preferred to use my verbal judo skills as opposed to martial arts moves on people I arrested and I did that for most of my career. As I told my guys at roll call everynight, our number one job is to return home at the end of the shift. We have nothing to prove. We already know we are the badest gang in town!
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>Having said that, I do enjoy the escapism. I'm watching Stephen Segal in "The Glimmer Man" right now. I like him because he gets it over with quickly. As they say in the street, "he don't play!"

You are right - he gets right to the point. I think it's fun to watch the flicks where the good guy doesn't reason with the bad guy, or negotiates, or gives him. I like it when they just beat the snot out of them. If I am flipping through cable and find a rerun of Walker Texas Ranger, you bet I am going to stop on it at least for 5 minutes and hope for a roundhouse kick.

BTW, did you hear that at night the boogieman checks under his bed for John Harvey?