PolicePosers.com mentioned on the KING5 News of Seattle, WA

Wednesday, 25. November 2009

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Investigators–Police-Posers-behind-high-profile-crimes–71834742.html

 

A small excerpt from the article itself:

by CHRIS INGALLS / KING 5 Investigators

Posted on November 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM

SEATTLE – A series of recent high-profile crimes all have a common thread. They involve people posing as police officers.

The KING 5 Investigators have learned it may be more than coincidence that there are so many “police posers” on the streets these days and that it is often hard to tell them apart from the good guys.

To passers-by at a Federal Way truck stop earlier this year, it looked like law enforcement was taking down one of its own. A marked K-9 vehicle was pulled over, the man driving it placed in cuffs, and the sidearm from his holster seized. He was stopped by an off-duty King County detective who saw the car driving down I-5 and played a hunch it wasn’t an actual cop.

The rest of the article and video shed a lot of light on the impostor problems the Seattle area is facing which spurred the article. Thank you Chris for the work done on the article and the video.

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News Articles for the Week of 10/17/09

Sunday, 18. October 2009

Calgary robbers posed as police officers in N.E. raid
(calgaryherald.com) 10/14/09

Buena Park Police Impostor Sought
(myfoxla.com) 09/10/09

Calgary police looking for imposter with nose ring
(calgaryherald.com) 10/07/09

Police Arrest Fake Cop Suspect
(wcax.com) 08/25/09

Man Accused Of Being Fake Cop, Rape
(click2houston.com) 10/14/09

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Is the Circus in Town?

Tuesday, 6. October 2009

Actually no they aren’t, but this car could be confused for a clown car. Brought to us in the past by eBay being sold out of New York (by what was assumed as a private emergency volunteer), it appears the new owner in Michigan is now trying to sell it. According to a member of the elightbars.org forum,

“the person wasn’t aware of michigan lighting laws, he had quite a surprise when he got pulled over, the first and second,and third times”

For those out there that are still confused at this point, blue colored lighting is a law enforcement only color in the great state of Michigan. This doesn’t appear to be a cop car in any fashion. So we will have to stay tuned to see if the car sells and if it is sold to another buyer unaware of their state’s lighting laws. Then people wonder why eBay and other sale sites restrict emergency equipment sales on their private web sites. Place your bid and maybe you can have you very own clown car looking emergency service unit!

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Enjoy!

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News Articles for the Week of 09/26/09

Saturday, 26. September 2009

Man Posing As Fire Inspector Stealing From Businesses

(10tv.com) 09/20/09

Police: Salem man impersonates cop, to a cop

(katu.com) 09/20/09

Former officer allegedly pulls over real cop

(nbc12.com) 09/17/09

Police imposter arrested inside police station

(examiner.com) 09/17/09

Driver who tried to stop Shreveport mayor is not a Red River firefighter, official says

(shreveporttimes.com) 09/15/09

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Remembering Patriot Day

Friday, 11. September 2009

Across the internet, this day, as every day with the date of 09/11 people are recollecting what they did that day.

Some recount where they were, some recount how they heard the news, and some recount how it affected them. Anyone alive at that time in the USA could probably tell you details of that day regarding their personal lives that they couldn’t if it was just any other normal day.

On several forums people have been going over that day. A lot were in the public safety field at the time, but a lot weren’t. A lot were in school or not even remotely involved in the field. While we all agree that age doesn’t make a difference and experience does, but this is something different. Those who weren’t involved in the public safety field that day will never know what that day felt like to those who were in the field. Although some of those now in the field lost someone they knew, being in the field at the time gave a certain understanding that is hard to describe. Now before you take offense, we are not saying “those not in the field that day don’t care”, but we are finding a growing trend with this group of people talking about that day as if they were first responders that day.

Hearing younger FF or EMS workers who where still in school, or otherwise not members of emergency services, at the time talk about 9-11 as though they were active responders bothers us. They were in school or whatever, and while they may have been scared, they didn’t just witness hundreds of people who where doing the same job as them die in an act of cowardice, we did, along with every other active emergency responder on that day.

We ask everyone to remember ALL of those who lost their lives that day and those who continue to fight for our safety and freedom.

USA Rose

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News Articles for the Week of 09/05/09

Saturday, 5. September 2009

Walton Cop Impostor
(panhandleparade.com) 09/02/09

Cops: Man posing as cop pulls over off-duty officer
(newsday.com) 08/27/09

Wannabe Cop
(abqjournal.com) 08/19/09

Officials Warn Against Using Police Lights
(ktul.com) 08/10/09

Man Accused Of Impersonating Officer
(kmbc.com) 09/02/09

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2009 Summer Hiatus

Monday, 10. August 2009

Being at the peak of summer a lot of the staff is busy with summertime events. With the time spent on moving the old format to the new format you see, I need a bit of a holiday. The staff and I will be taking a month long hiatus from the main site to pursue summertime activities and events in our personal lives. If something big does come up we will post it but regular updates will be suspended for the month of August.

With that being said I want to offer a newly opened position. With the new format anyone with the proper rights can contribute to the main site directly unlike before. If you agree with the general site and want to be a contributor, send an email via our contact page with the topics that interest you that you want to write about. We are looking for contributors on topics we cover plus lighting/siren safety and proper usage.

Well, see you in September unless something pops up that we need to share.

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“My name is Ray and I just ran across your site last week.”

Monday, 3. August 2009

We got this email in June. As normal it came from someone we probably offended and they had to go digging for information to muddy us up with. The typical “you’re making stuff up” came up again along with some stuff we usually get in most of the hate mail we receive. We find it funny most of the hate mail we receive tells us how we are hateful and negative but the same mail tries to call us names, belittles what we do with insults, and tries to justify the actions of those we discuss on the site.

Pretty much, if you don’t like what we do, then quit reading the site and move on. Some people feel the need to send anonymous emails to get the last cowardly word in thinking it harms us. However at most we get a good chuckle on the forums and post it on the main page where people can see the types of people who get mad enough to send us stuff like this. Now for what you have been waiting for, this weeks presentation!

My name is Ray and I just ran across your site last week. While I can say there is a lot of effort, it comes off as nothing but a shrill attempt at an outburst of something you don’t like. Most of the wording and general attitude of the site sounds like it is made by a childlike mentality that is overly concerned for what others do. The flamboyance in your writing has me wondering what your mental capacity for real world social interaction might be. I may come off as insulting you but digress, you are the one who runs a web site devoted to demonizing a select few. Then you do not offering anyone the glimpse of what how perfect you are over those you demonize. I view your vain attempt as pathetic and it makes me wonder if you are what you hate so much deep inside your soul.

Your whacker page says it all. You go into details on personal observations as offering them up as fact on silver platters. I see the only type of person who would chow down at your wealth of knowledge is those who are equally as hateful of their inner demons as you are. Your web site as you call it is not much more on the subject of unbiased fact as Wikipedia is. Both of your sites tout how much you are for doing one thing while being an outlet for the editor’s and author’s life struggles others take as reading material. As another letter posted on your web site said so well, there are no such things as whackers as you describe them. The imposter problem you quote as an epidemic is a mere crime that has fewer cases than purse snatching and red neck incest in the Bible belt.

Since you are a coward who hides behind your domain name I decided to research you a little. I was about to but chose not to pay for an overnight background on you as I would rather frequent my funds to a hobo than find what rock you live under. What I could find on the internet shows a trend of cowardice, trolling, and general lack of social empathy to anyone. I also find people speak of your handle with great disgust and you are pretty much looked at with contempt in every circle I ventured into. Like a sniveling little coward, you never use your real name or give a face for those who you belittle to look into.

Looking over your web site I found a few who faced you. Donna Clark, whom owns a legitimate fire department and Eliot, a person who you robbed photos from to add to your album are the obvious ones. Both gave you a face to look in and you couldn’t even give them your first name in return. Yet, you call them out on the very issue that you hide, standing up to those who are wrong. If it were possible, I would buy them both a round to congratulate them on facing you and winning. They won against you because you backed down from each of them. You attempted to demonize them but failed at both. You basically posted an edited version of what they said, made your rebuttal while sounding smug, and never gave them the chance to counter-rebuttal you.

I could go on all day about your web site and the mentally challenged content it spews but I won’t. Your recent updates sound like the dying breath of a lost cause on your battlefield. Your recent content consists mainly of what your hate or what others hate about you. There are no facts or premise by which your web site will thrive. Unlike Hamsexy.com, you only propel hate and anger at your readers with no humor, insight, or even collegial generated information. Your topics are rehashed from a few months before and this does nothing to keep long term readers. If the whackers were such an epidemic then you would have material oozing out at the seams of your sources. Instead you interject person opinion and dislike into each story and plaster it on the front page of a poorly designed web site.

A true blog or media site usually tries to keep things fresh. You haven’t accomplished this from day one and will never do so. I predict you will be tired of hating through a narrow beam and will grow bored with the web site subject and move on. I hope and pray (actually I’m an atheist and prayer is for the feeble minded) that you don’t hurt others or demonize others in your next subject of hatred after you flushed policeposers.com down the toilet of self serving web sites.

This is the part where I bid farewell. I have called you faceless and a coward throughout this letter several times. Now you can do the same to me. Ray was a name I chose to start this letter off as a personal one to get your attention. I am not going to reveal who I am or what I am. This is for you to think about as you find something in this letter to get mad about and go throw a tantrum about on your chat board. I also expect to see this on the policeposers site as that is where you blow your steam from your meaningless life. Just take this letter and imaging the author as everyone you have wronged in the life of your web site. Also imagine it as every person you or some simple minded admirer of your site labeled a whacker who was never one. Lights have never killed or hurt anyone but hatred and anger have killed billions. What side are you on?

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News Articles for the Week of 07/26/09

Monday, 27. July 2009

Warrant issued for alleged police impostor in Carrick

(pittsburghlive.com) 07/22/09

Man wanted for impersonating firefighter

(newson6.com) 07/15/09

MARYLAND: Officer impostor searched youth

(delmarvanow.com) 07/10/09

Real cop or fake cop? How can you tell the difference?

(kentnewsnet.com) 07/08/09

Police Imposter Pulls Over And Search Teen Driver

(wjz.com) 07/10/09

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Take Out My Lights? Never!

Sunday, 12. July 2009

This is another one of those subjects popping up more and more on message boards: volunteers who quit or resign from their departments, but refuse to give up their lighting on their POV. While this is a small topic, it is an interesting one that has our interest.

The story starts with someone who has invested a lot of time and money into their lighting setup, the lights more than likely conform to their state laws for volunteer POV lights and their permits, although for one reason or another they have to move on from their volunteering hobby. Then the dreaded fact of life comes up, that the lights must go. The former volunteer fights this choice for awhile, and ends up deciding for some reason or another, they are just going to keep them.

What is their motivation? Mainly it is whackeristic intentions; excuses we heard so far stretch from “I am a trained fire fighter/EMT/whatever and might need them” to “you know, because I can.” As we say, we aren’t against people using lights when it is needed and lawful; however people who think they are entitled or it is their right to do so due to their past we are against. Either these types are cast out of their department due to their behavior or they are moving, and don’t want to move on from their flashy light show to live the life of a “normal” civilian. They evolve from a legitimate lighting user, to a whacker, the moment they leave their respective department. Just like a former police officer doesn’t wear his populated duty belt or a former member of the military wearing their class A uniform everywhere they go.

So to wrap up this week’s update, know when to call it quits and to leave behind the dream. Lights are tools that should only be used by those trained, certified, and who use them lawfully and ethically.

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