CHP (California Highway Patrol) officially declares itself "Paramilitary Organization"

[The2ndAmendment]

http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

1. Are you willing to work in a para-military organization, operating under a structured chain-of-command?

Molon Labe

 

[jwoodie]

CHP is actually a tax collecting organization. They set up radar speed traps on the SAFEST roads with the LEAST accidents (usually on a downhill portion) because they can write more $peeding tickets there. They are supposed to use radar only AFTER reasonable suspicion that an individual car is speeding, but they simply sit on the radar gun and check every car. Then they lie about it in court, and the pro-tem judges go along with it in hopes of being appointed to a permanent judgeship.

Also, they are paid OVERTIME while eating lunch, because they are technically "on duty." In addition, they make sure that they end their shift as far away from their homes as possible so that they can collect additional OT while they drive home. As a result, they are paid 25-50% more than their published salaries. What a scam...

 

[LA RAM FAN]

california highway patrol.that brings back so many memorys of the show CHIPS.

 

[Harry Dresden]

http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

1. Are you willing to work in a para-military organization, operating under a structured chain-of-command?

Molon Labe

do you think this is something new?.....since they are responsible for securing and patrolling a number of potential terrorist targets in California including nuclear power plants, government buildings, and key infrastructure sites and maintains a SWAT team.....yea i guess they would be kinda Para-Military....by the way so is the S.Carolina H.P. since 1930......

 

[Harry Dresden]

CHP is actually a tax collecting organization. They set up radar speed traps on the SAFEST roads with the LEAST accidents (usually on a downhill portion) because they can write more $peeding tickets there. They are supposed to use radar only AFTER reasonable suspicion that an individual car is speeding, but they simply sit on the radar gun and check every car. Then they lie about it in court, and the pro-tem judges go along with it in hopes of being appointed to a permanent judgeship.

Also, they are paid OVERTIME while eating lunch, because they are technically "on duty." In addition, they make sure that they end their shift as far away from their homes as possible so that they can collect additional OT while they drive home. As a result, they are paid 25-50% more than their published salaries. What a scam...

so i see you have been ticketed before.....

 

[LA RAM FAN]

got a question for you harry,check your pm.

 

[rightwinger]

Doesn't look paramilitary to me

 

[rightwinger]

Paramilitary - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

A paramilitary is a militarized force or other organization whose organizational structure, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but which is not considered part of a state's formal armed forces

 

[The2ndAmendment]

What's the point of Posse Comitatus if the local police become Soliders?

 

[Roadrunner]

Doesn't look paramilitary to me

Looks gay to me.

I never watched CHIPS, he could be a bull goose stud for all I know.

 

[Syriusly]

The California Highway Patrol is often referred to as a "paramilitary" department. This is due to the uniforms, ranks and insignias, chain of command, and long-standing traditions of the Department that resemble a military organization. this paramilitary style is especially prevalent throughout Academy training.

California Highway Patrol - Recruiting

Paramilitary Courtesy
Through this course, cadets learn to respond politely to their professors, officers and other people they encounter while on law enforcement duty. Like in the military, students are expected to respond to senior officers and staff members with 'sir' or 'ma'am.' They practice typical drill movements, where they must be in the position of attention upon command.

Pretty scarey stuff.

 

[Roadrunner]

The California Highway Patrol is often referred to as a "paramilitary" department. This is due to the uniforms, ranks and insignias, chain of command, and long-standing traditions of the Department that resemble a military organization. this paramilitary style is especially prevalent throughout Academy training.

California Highway Patrol - Recruiting

Paramilitary Courtesy
Through this course, cadets learn to respond politely to their professors, officers and other people they encounter while on law enforcement duty. Like in the military, students are expected to respond to senior officers and staff members with 'sir' or 'ma'am.' They practice typical drill movements, where they must be in the position of attention upon command.

Pretty scarey stuff.

Wow, just like the scary ass Boy Scouts.

This must be stopped.

 

[deltex1]

They should identify themselves a zookeepers rather than peacekeepers. California should be a national park

 

[Syriusly]

They should identify themselves a zookeepers rather than peacekeepers. California should be a national pak.

Well then they would be Rangers.....and Texas already has that paramilitary name taken.

 

[Moonglow]

The California Highway Patrol is often referred to as a "paramilitary" department. This is due to the uniforms, ranks and insignias, chain of command, and long-standing traditions of the Department that resemble a military organization. this paramilitary style is especially prevalent throughout Academy training.

California Highway Patrol - Recruiting

Paramilitary Courtesy
Through this course, cadets learn to respond politely to their professors, officers and other people they encounter while on law enforcement duty. Like in the military, students are expected to respond to senior officers and staff members with 'sir' or 'ma'am.' They practice typical drill movements, where they must be in the position of attention upon command.

Pretty scarey stuff.

Wow, just like the scary ass Boy Scouts.

This must be stopped.

The panty raids are the worst....

 

[georgephillip]

http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

1. Are you willing to work in a para-military organization, operating under a structured chain-of-command?

Molon Labe

"13. Are you willing and able to remain calm, professional, and effective, when someone is rude,
drunk, irrational, confused, obscene, or otherwise discourteous to you?"
http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

 

[Roadrunner]

http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

1. Are you willing to work in a para-military organization, operating under a structured chain-of-command?

Molon Labe

"13. Are you willing and able to remain calm, professional, and effective, when someone is rude,
drunk, irrational, confused, obscene, or otherwise discourteous to you?"
http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/pdf/Career.pdf

Hell no, I'd want to punch 'em in the throat!!!

 

[georgephillip]

Hell no, I'd want to punch 'em in the throat!!!

You're HIRED!

 

[georgephillip]

Fifty years ago the CHP were much less "paramilitary" than they are currently; then came Newhall:
"The Newhall massacre was a shootout between two heavily armed criminals and officers of the California Highway Patrol(CHP) in the Newhall unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, California on April 6, 1970. In less than 5 minutes, four CHP officers were killed in what was at the time the deadliest day in the history of California law enforcement."
Newhall massacre - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Syriusly]

Fifty years ago the CHP were much less "paramilitary" than they are currently; then came Newhall:
"The Newhall massacre was a shootout between two heavily armed criminals and officers of the California Highway Patrol(CHP) in the Newhall unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, California on April 6, 1970. In less than 5 minutes, four CHP officers were killed in what was at the time the deadliest day in the history of California law enforcement."
Newhall massacre - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Thanks- we need to be reminded of events like that.

I was listening to the Commander of the CHP being interviewed earlier this week- very well spoken and thoughtful man.