Video disappears, ombudsman disappears, officers disappear………so much for the “open and transparent” department. If the general public only had an INKLING…………..but the field belongs to the power brokers. And we ALL know who they are “chief”. Don’t we?

Dale, if Ferguson wasn’t going on, would this then be okay, IYO?

Dale, I think someone at Boise State thinks that was a bad move to do such “team building” and took the video down based on content.

Bad on BSU. Bad on BPD, IMO.
The timing just puts a spotlight on it.

EDITOR NOTE: See the updated note on this post. You are correct.

What do football payers grow up to be? Coaches or cops.

True story: The only two people who ever knocked on a door that said “Do not disturb, newborn infant sleeping” were pandering football players, and cops at the wrong door.

The footballer was disabled by the pot-roast located between his ears and therefore, after admonishment by an insane over-tired mom, called his school assigned tutor to ask her what the sign said and why football was not exempt.

This team-building video was about the copper PR person taking advantage of a meat-head coaching staff to make the SWAT team look like a friendly game of paintball.

I’m certain the coach got a call from his tutor today.

PS: Chief, how much for a lube, oil, and filter on that truck thingy? How much for a brake and tire change. Today the US Army spends more on Maintaining the M1-Tank than any other part of the army. They wish they didn’t buy so many… Words of wisdom from Johnny Carson who once joked, the M-1 program cost so much that the US Army could buy three Chrysler K-Cars for each man in the Army. Chief please refrain from childish spending and donations. Focus on build trust instead. Teach officers to deescalate. Don’t hire meat-heads. You can’t win anyway, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Goes to show you that even stupid people know when their sh*t stinks.

Other than a short notice by Cripe of the Statesman that the video is down (he posted it originally), I have seen nothing from the local “journalists.” Either 1. they don’t think it’s important or interesting, and that is not true as evidenced by the number of comments on this blog; or 2. they don’t want to incur the anger of Boise State or the fans by doing their job. Shoddy. Too busy being “personalities” to report the news.

United Dairymen of Idaho. AgGag Bill. SWAT training. Mystery disappearance of a video on YouTube. OH, golly gee, let’s start our own conspiracy theory right now.

Apparently Zippo either saw something in the video that no one else did, he has no idea what an M-1 tank is, or he simply likes to state random facts. I most definitely agree this was nothing but a PR stunt and a waste of city money, however at least get your facts straight. There is no tank in the video. Also an MRAP is not a tank. There is no offensive weapons as part of an MRAP, nor on whatever vehicle was in the video. Those machines are used to transport troops and yes you can put men with guns in it, however a tank is not a troop mover, it’s an offensive weapon used to take the fight to the bag guys. Before you try to incite riots with inflammatory words like “tank”, remember if you have no idea what you are talking about you will think a rubber bullet is an ear plug.

Zippo I am glad you know what you’re talking about because I think you may be the only one. The M-1 was the most revolutionary weapon of the time and an absolute game changer. Part of the expense is the fact they are built and maintained. You cut out the building and/or purchase and they become cheap, hence the acquiring of the MRAP. And the military doesn’t give stuff away because they don’t want it anymore, they do it to buy more stuff. Because our federal government doesn’t know how to save money and the departments want their budget to stay the same, they discard items and purchase more so as to spend every dollar a year in their budget.
I don’t know how much the oil changes and maintenance on the MRAP cost, but due to the little utilization it will receive I would guess it is much smaller than purhcasing 30k police cars, up armoring them, and then maintaing those.
Being a tax payer I would gladly have the department get a free vehicle then waste more money on cars. Also if something ever happens here like the notorious bank robberies in LA that started the whole rifle craze in law enforcement, then I would hope the police show up in an uparmored vehicle so me or my wife can hide behind when we are trying to make a withdrawl.

http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2014/08/26/boise-police-department-gives-mrap-swat-show-and-tell

what a joke.

Is this yet just another reprehensible and very wasteful example of OVERPOLICING in my dear Gem of the Mountains???

Waste taxpayer dollars ONLY at your peril!!!

EDITOR NOTE–It didn’t work either. BSU still lost to Ole Miss.