And lo on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:31:17 +0100, Tim Attwood  
<tim### [at] comcastnet> did spake, saying:

> Jar Jar Binks is a great character.

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Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> Police officers patrol the streets all day long - must get tiring not  
> having one single break; oh wait what did Darren say?

  So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their
break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can simply say
"I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".

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And lo on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:09:28 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> Police officers patrol the streets all day long - must get tiring not
>> having one single break; oh wait what did Darren say?
>
>   So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their
> break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can simply  
> say
> "I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".

Yep in the same way that ambulance drivers, doctors, and firefighters are  
not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their break.

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Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
> >   So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their
> > break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can simply  
> > say
> > "I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".

> Yep in the same way that ambulance drivers, doctors, and firefighters are  
> not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their break.

  I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
I described.

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Warp wrote:
>   I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
> I described.

	Policemen over here often do much worse and rarely go to jail. Ignoring 
a call is relatively minor - at worst they'd lose their job - likely 
they'll just get a suspension or warning.

In any case, perhaps this will answer the question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070522194214AA8j2hx

Didn't find anything official.

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Warp wrote:
>   I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
> I described.

In this country, police aren't required to actually enforce the law.

And I'm sure it varies depending on how many police you have. In New 
York City, they probably have enough cops they can afford to let 10% of 
them be eating at any one time. In some town with three cops, I imagine 
you grab what you can, but likely don't get interrupted all that often.

I'll ask my brother, who was a cop in Las Vegas.

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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:39:03 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
>> SW Ep 4-6 really broke new technical ground in SF movie making.
> 
>   Hmm. When I compare the first SW movie (made in 1977) to the Alien
>   movie
> (made in 1979), the former looks really, really simple and cheap. I'm
> just not able to see why it's so good as everyone claims.

The thing about SWEP4 was that there were a lot of techniques used in 
making the film that had not been done before (or had been done in very 
limited fashion).  There were a lot of "firsts" in filmmaking with that 
film.

Of course Alien would look much better - 2 years to develop and refine 
techniques first used *ever* in ep4 would tend to do that.  And of course 
you also had Stan Winston doing the animatronics and creature effects.  
They guy was *outstanding* with that stuff.

Jim

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>> >   So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in 
>> > their
>> > break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can simply
>> > say
>> > "I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".
>
>> Yep in the same way that ambulance drivers, doctors, and firefighters are
>> not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their break.
>
>  I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
> I described.

So would the doctor/firefighter if there were 5 people dying and they just 
sat there and carried on eating their sandwich.

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And lo on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:41:50 +0100, scott <sco### [at] scottcom> did  
spake, saying:

>>> >   So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in  
>>> > their
>>> > break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can  
>>> simply
>>> > say
>>> > "I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".
>>
>>> Yep in the same way that ambulance drivers, doctors, and firefighters  
>>> are
>>> not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their break.
>>
>>  I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
>> I described.
>
> So would the doctor/firefighter if there were 5 people dying and they  
> just sat there and carried on eating their sandwich.

Which was my point. So far the argument is that it's quite all right for  
ambulance drivers etc to take a meal break, but police officers can't.  
That would be like doctors only being allowed to eat on wards in case one  
of the patients needs them. If someone is on a break you know that they're  
going to have an increased response time.

Actually we're just talking meals here, do the police have a toilet fitted  
to their vehicles? If not does this mean that the officer has to park  
their vehicle right outside the toilet and keep all the doors open so they  
can keep an eye on it and be ready to [cough] leap up to answer an  
emrgency call?

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Warp wrote:
> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>>>   So police officers are not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their
>>> break. Even if a gang is mass raping a woman, the policeman can simply  
>>> say
>>> "I'm on a break, not my problem; maybe when my break is over".
> 
>> Yep in the same way that ambulance drivers, doctors, and firefighters are  
>> not assumed to be ready for emergencies in their break.
> 
>   I'm pretty sure a policeman would be sent to jail if it did like
> I described.
> 

Not in the USA. The police have the duty to solve and prevent crimes, 
not to prevent all of them from occurring. Which ones they pick and 
choose is not exactly a clear cut matter.

summary: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html
actual ruling: http://www.aclu.org/pdfs/gonzalesf122805.pdf

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