US Police Slogan: Go Out, Cause PTSD

Press TV
December 26, 2007

The US police face a new scandal after revelation that the slogan of one its academies is ‘Cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)’.

The revelation came after a photograph of the graduation program of a police academy in the state of Idaho was e-mailed anonymously to news outlets throughout the state.

It showed that the slogan, “Don’t suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it,” is printed on the academy’s graduation programs.

“It shouldn’t have been there. It was inappropriate.” said Jeff Black, the director of Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training.

Disavowing the slogan, Black said the class president was ex-military, and that the slogan “slipped in.”

According to the US Veterans Association, tens of thousands of US soldiers suffer from PTSD, which causes nightmares, flashbacks and physical symptoms.

PTSD makes sufferers feel as if they are reliving trauma, even many years later.

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  1. Donald F. Truax on December 26th, 2007

    All

    This is a real issues here in the U.S., moreover, there are operations designed to ‘Cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)’hidden from the public that are destroying lives.

    Hopefully, the public awareness will continue to grow concerning such atroicities made against citizens here and abroad.

    See: http://www.globalresearch.ca/i.....cleId=2433 for more information.

    Love “Light” and Energy

    _Don [TI]

  2. Against the grain on December 26th, 2007

    Police need to switch to decaf.

  3. S. Wolf Britain on December 27th, 2007

    Taking the chance that I sound naive, which I’m not, police should learn, or re-learn, that they work for the People. They are supposed to, ONLY, be public servants to “protect and serve”, not to be enforcers for the mobster enslavers that they work for ultimately, the “One-World Order (OWO)” globalists (sic). But they’re probably never going to have any other power, so they enjoy torturing people with tasers, shooting defenseless people dead, etc.

  4. Lars Wirth on December 27th, 2007

    The slogan did not “slip” in. Again, the public is being treated as Stupids. Police and other security forces are trained to cause disstress. “Don’t taser me bro!” zzzapp!

    Evil is implemented into the training program of those who are charged to serve and protect, and it is implementation by design.

  5. Steve on December 27th, 2007

    Just like in the Transformers movie on the side of the decepticons police car it says “To Punish and Enslave”. Lol decepticons thats what the neocons should really be called. “By way of deception we do war” Mossad Slogan.

  6. Penny on December 27th, 2007

    In PHX AZ, the sheriff’s deputies, and local police train under Blackwater protocol. The re-enforcement bars on front of cop cruisers are stenciled in black letters read ‘patriot pushers’.Recently at a local protest rally, ptriots v. Mexican aliens, the police were using camcorders on the American patriots holding flags, and signs.

  7. Emmanuel Goldstein on December 27th, 2007

    So being abusive isn’t just the characteristics of the men themselves, but is taught and reinforced. How comforting. Also nicely ties with the new disarmament laws. I guess if you get tasered multiple times by multiple men and are bothered by it, you deserved to have your second amendment rights stripped under the new Vet Disarmament Act. In NJ, the state troopers apparently broke into an Essex County college girl’s home and gangraped her. I wonder if they teach that in the academy too? I’m sure she has PTSD and would love a gun–which could have protected her–but will be denied as unstable. Rape, violence, torture–not sounding too American. And don’t hold hopes of them realizing the errors of their ways–power corrupts always.

    Police aren’t special–they just have cooler toys…

  8. Lawrence Fisher on December 27th, 2007

    Read “You and The Police” by Boston Tea Party. Buy many copies from Amazon or Javelin Press and pass them out to your friends. -LF

  9. Keith on December 27th, 2007

    I just called the Idaho State Police and spoke with a representative of thiers. She had a couple of interesting things to say. She clarified that these were not even new cadets. These were active duty officers that attended this training as a “refresher course.” Also, she explained that the slogan was voted on by these veteran police officers. Finally she explained that it was all menat in good fun. I think she was trying to minimize the stuation, but she did a horrible job.

  10. Linda on December 27th, 2007

    Reminds me of the pamphlet that was drawn up in Phoenix on how to spot a terrorist. Most of the descriptions describe every red blooded American I know.http://www.infowars.com/constitutional_terrorists.htm Read it and see if it describes you.

  11. Melissa on December 27th, 2007

    One time I was in Scotland and came around a corner in Glasgow, in time to hear two policemen talking to an abusive drunk man. They were saying things like Let us help you sir and he growled leave me along you so and so’s, then one policeman said , I don’t feel comfortable leaving you on the ground sir, let us take you home. Now that is what police should be like. I was very impressed.No one was there watching them and they behaved so well.

  12. fleetingfreedom on December 28th, 2007

    At one time here in Glasgow the police were notorious. When you spent a night in the cells through being too drunk the slightest bit of backchat and you got kicked up and down the cell.
    Im glad to say that sounds about right now, they are generally OK and professional, but you still get the ones that are straight wa**ers. For example Last New Year some idiot was at the wrong door of the wrong floor, maybe even the wrong high rise flat, brandishing two huge kitchen knifes, unfortunately it was my door he picked. Blades were well over 7 inches long. This nutcase was kicking my door. I had never seen him before. Neighbours called the police. After he had gone Police turn up and after checking to see if I had any warrants and giving me the 3rd degree like I was the criminal asked me what I expected them to do about it. I was so close to saying my mistake. Next time I’ll call Bozo the juggling clown, but a night in the cells would have been the result. Fortunately while they were giving me the 3rd degree Rambo came back to my door 2 knifes in hand and 2 stuffed into his belt. He was arrested. If he hadnt came back the police really werent giving a toss. The apathy was shocking!!! Knifes are still a big problem here in Glasgow, well its more the EMINEM wannabee white track suit burberry baseball cap wearing, buckfast wine drinking NEDS(non educated delinquents) that are the problem. On their own theyre like timid frightened little mice. As soon as they have someone outnumbered they turn into mouthy backstabbing (literally) plastic gangsters. Theyre an embarassment to Glasgow. They make English hoodies look like freindly teenage neighbours. They all seem to be thick as two short planks as well. Oh I said that already. The adults cant rally round to deal with them because the community in inner cities in Scotland is dead, everyone keeps to themselves and large sections of the adult community in poorer areas are all heroin addicts. Communities over the years have been destroyed by design. The govt for years have been lumping the poor into more isolated areas all together, along with all the illegal immigrants, re-housed homeless people from shelters and prisons. Its a disgrace. The massive influx of refugees doesnt help either. You can barely mention it lest your called a racist, but its worth noting that even though they reach the safety of Italy, Spain, France, Holland and Germany, the mission is getting over that channel……hmmmmm….I wonder why……simple. So they can work and manipulate and exploit the British system. Meanwhile the govt targets its citizens who have lived here since birth, cutting their benefits, throwing mentally ill people off of sickness benefit claiming they are fit for the workplace. The Labour govt betrayed the poor of Britain. The tories werent much better but they had a “just leave the serfs alone policy”. Labour prods and pokes them while at the same time opening the borders floodgates putting strain on a breaking social security and NHS system. Then they say resident Brits are the cause, claiming sickness benefit when they are fit for work. Beyond belief. If they gave a toss thed get serious about stopping the heroin thats eating away at society for the past 20 years. Of course British soldiers defending the Afghan poppy crop tells you something about whats really happening. Let the poor destroy themselves then theres no problem.
    Jeez where did that rant come from. Im in a bad mood tonight. My birthday as well. You wouldnt think so!!!

  13. Greg Brotherton on December 28th, 2007

    Most policeman do a tremendous job. The are a few jerks in every profession. A few bad doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, and preachers. The taser itself is a fantastic, non-lethal weapon that has helped to reduce the number of severe injuries received by both the police and those subjects they utilize the tasers on. It many instances it has been used instead of a gun or a police baton. Your average police officer takes the job because he really wants to help people. Unfortunately, it is rare when the good police officers are commended for the work they do. The bad ones should be fired and thrown into jails but if we are ever going to turn this country around we have to support the ones that are doing it right.

  14. Eddie on December 28th, 2007

    Tasers are non-lethal? There are so many horror stories out there about cops killing people with tasers that it makes me sick to my stomach.Do some research.One lady was in a wheel chair and died after being tased TEN times!
    While many cops may have good intentions,after being indoctrinated like school children,they believe right is wrong and wrong is right.The good cops that our dying republic has left not only need to be supported,but EDUCATED.Otherwise they’ll never understand the true meaning of “doing it right”.

  15. Gregory Kay on December 28th, 2007

    I was a police officer once myself, back in 1977 in a small town in the eastern US, and I learned a few things during that experience.

    1) There is actually a certain type of person who are determined to test themselves against the police; if you want to arrest them, you have to fight them and very literally force them into submission in order to do it. They do not respond to reason, only violent force. They actually do exist, but fortunately, they are very few and far between. Most people, when told they are under arrest, do not become violent unless the officer treats them rudely or violently to begin with. However, many cops either will not or cannot separate between the two.

    2) From my own experience, on a per-capita basis, there is a much higher percentage of police officers who are ready and willing to use violence at any provocation, or none at all. “He needs a lesson,” is the common excuse. I’ve seen the people — usually drunks — worked over with fists and black jacks in back rooms for “getting mouthy” with the excuse sworn and attested to that they “fell down.” A friend of mine went through this when a murder confession was being extracted from him (Torture to obtain confessions is the norm in many US police departments and prisons; remember the excuse used at Abu Ghraib? The people were prison guards in civilian life and claimed they were using the same techniques they learned here in Iraq.); his attorney pointed out that he was too battered for that to be possible, and the police officer responded under oath, “Well, he fell down several times.” I’ve known cops who beat people for not cooperating because they were too drunk to walk along with them, and I once personally observed a State Trooper drag an unconscious drunk up a tall set of concrete steps by one leg, the back of his limply hanging head slamming against the corner of each one: bump-bump-bump, because he didn’t want to risk a stinking drunk puking on him. These cops are in the minority, but they’re also in every department. They use their badge, quite literally, as a shield.

    3) Finally, you have the rest of the cops, the majority; these are the ones who, while not committing uncalled-for violence themselves, cover up for the ones who do with the infamous code of silence — us and them mentality. You always back a brother officer, regardless of what he does. Failure to do so is punished; not just by a suddenly hostile work enviroment, but by leaving you without backup when you need it, like going into an armed robbery in progress. I got to experience that little bit of payback myself, and suffice it to say, it was not pleasant.

    Gregory Kay

  16. S. Wolf Britain on December 28th, 2007

    Right on, Greg! Very well said! I now would be proud to call you “Officer Kay”, if you were still in the force. But you aren’t, and thank God you aren’t, right? That’s a rhetorical question, no need to answer it. I’m glad you got out of it while the going was good. Like you alluded to, you can’t stay, even if your own direct actions are blameless, because if you stay you have to look the other way and thereby be complicit in true, blatant injustice, especially now when it’s getting MUCH worse every day. The licensed serial killers are coming back from Iraq and becoming torturing, murderous cops. ALL of NOTHING BUT the VERY best to you and your’s.

  17. GoodCitizen on December 28th, 2007

    With all due respect to the very few righteous police officers out there, the data (and behaviour) worldwide seems to bear witness that the very nature of this profession attracts undesirable personalities.

    Since our jails and prisons have become virtual torture facilities (all in the name of security, of course) it is difficult to imagine mentally healthy, non-violent persons wanting to work in the criminal justice field.

  18. Greg Brotherton on December 28th, 2007

    I must say I am suprised and somewhat disappointed at the responses I have been reading. Maybe I am lucky to live in a small town in central Illinois that has apparently been fortunate enough to escape the kind of police behavior many of you are describing. I do hear the news stories that report these kind of disturbing and illegal acts but I learned years ago that the negative stories regarding police behavior garner the greatest media attention. Regarding the use of the tasers - most police departments require that any officer authorized to use a tazer must be shot with one as part of the training program. This is done to educate the officer on the weapons effect on a tasered subject. While the press has been quick to cover deaths allegedly attributed to the use of the taser we seldom hear of the follow-up stories that disprove the allegations. Many people talk of how the media is used to deceive citizen’s views regarding our country’s political activities - why then would you not suspect the same type of distorted reporting regarding police activity?

  19. S. Wolf Britain on December 29th, 2007

    Gee, Greg Brotherton, perhaps because most of the corporate media is on the side of cops, not the People, helps presume guilt of arrestees and victims of cops, helps far to often to bring about conviction in the press, help the government and prosecutors demonize people who are ALL supposed to be presumed innocent UNTIL proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury of their peers in a court of law, not the “court of the media” or “the court of public opinion”?! E.g., look at how they always paraded Tim McVeigh in an orange jumpsuit in shackles, making him look guilty, like most people such as you want to see in order to make you feel like the mobster-authorities are “keeping you safe” [in Tim’s case, from the monster-patsies the government creates in order to get the People to beg them for the totalitarian militarized police state and to take away all of their civil liberty protections from government abuse(s), so the government can do what it most wants to do, run amok, trample on the rights they’ve always hated and felt hindered their work, and to do whatever they darn well please with accused people, including torturing confessions and false information about other “culprits” out of them].

    Very sadly, you and all people like you will probably never understand until YOU are falsely accused, brutalized and humiliated by the “authorities”. Believe me, Greg, you are a very thin thread away from such abuse of authority under color of state law, and torture, happening to you; because, if you are ever accused of a “serious” crime (and they’re making all of them serious crimes now in order to get you to realize you’re a slave; and that, if you don’t watch your step, they can do whatever they darn well please with, even make sure you never go home alive)—and don’t deceive yourself into believing that you’re far from it ever happening to you, because you aren’t—they will without any doubt(s) whatsoever violate your rights from then on until you confess to what you didn’t do, and do whatever it takes in order to do so. Stop deceiving yourself.

    The cops guilt usually isn’t legitimately proven by anyone, and juries are intimidated to acquit guilty cops; for, if the guilty cops are ever brought up on serious charges and go to trial, which is far too infrequent, many if not most citizens who aren’t blind sycophants of police and their “unquestioned authority” know that if they break the cops “code of silence” and help convict one of their own, even if he or she more than deserves it, they will at minimum not get help from the cops when they need it, and at worst will probably be intimidated, humiliated, threatened, and very possibly harmed by them for it, so they illegally vote to acquit under often unspoken intimidation, but oftentimes some of the jurors are even tacitly warned. It’s happened again and again, and it’s only gotten worse over time.

  20. Greg Brotherton on December 29th, 2007

    Apparently, S. Wolf Britain, experiences a world far different from the one I live in. I have been a law enforcement officer for over twenty years and a Police Chief for almost nine years. Never have I witnessed firsthand or ever had a citizen complain about police brutality at the hands of one of my officers. I do not deny that it does not go on in other places all over the world but these are the exception rather than the rule. Our small department handles over 14,000 calls for service each year with only a handful of complaints against the department. Ride with an officer for a day. Get a better perspective on what is really going on. I’m on your side regarding the fact that people need to wakeup as to the negative things going on around them. I don’t want the well meaning people who are trying to inform people of these things to lose their credibility because they haven’t done any firsthand investigation themselves.

  21. GoodCitizen on December 29th, 2007

    A slogan about causing PTSD is NOT humourous. It is sickening.

    I have known police officers. In the U.S., I am sorry to say that more often I find their attitudes and/or conduct very intimidating and predatory.

    Perhaps the issue our society needs to address isn’t so much about physical abuse on the street. The police know how humiliating and abusive the jails are, and can easily use that against any person (guilty or innocent). If causing PTSD is amusing, is it wrong to assume that many will entertain themselves finding ways to induce such horrors in jails/prisons?

    Powerful positions often attract cruel and corrupt people. Perhaps that is why the police are so often accused of mass torture worldwide.

    That’s why we desperately need moral, fair, good people to serve and protect us!

  22. GoodCitizen on December 30th, 2007

    FYI: How many will file complaints when they know about the code of silence and would probably fear reprisals if they had been brutilized? Besides, once accused the system assumes they have zero credibility!

    Articles/Video (Copwatch.com)
    People allegedly: 1) arrested for reading the constitution, 2) framed to cover up excessive actions, and 3) two alleged murders by taser (no charges filed…??)

    Links
    http://www.prisonplanet.com/ar.....tality.htm

  23. GoodCitizen on December 30th, 2007

    FOR THE SECURITY CONSCIOUS

    Installing a CAR CTV RECORDING SYSTEM:
    http://www.ehow.com/how_215954.....ystem.html

    Similar systems are quite easily installed in the home.

  24. JC - ex officer on January 21st, 2008

    WHat is so sad is that everyone here slamming cops and law enforcement have no idea what its like to be one. I put up with crap from people for almost eight years as an officer. That same crap began to turn me into the kind of people I dealt with. I got tired of watching the criminals walk away because of a loop hole. I got tired of seeing burglars get 10-15 years while a sex offender, aka rapist only got two or three. Then on top of that, if you make on wrong move, you get it from all sides. The administrative agency above you tries to nail you, the the investigative agencies try to nail you, and then the people you try to protect try to nail you. Oh and dont forget the criminals cheat, and they try to get you too. Geez you walk around in a constant state of paranoia, because it feels like everyone is out to get you. Eventually, you become what you deal with. After eight years, something, and I know what it was forced me to take a long hard look at who I had become, and I didn’t like it so I left law-enforcement. Now three years later, I still have PTSD. So before grinding up officers, put yourself in their shoes. You may not like or agree with theri methods, and neither do I, but if you have never walked a mile in their shoes, you have no right to tell them what they are doing right or wrong. Sorry, but I just get upset when I see people complaining about LE.

  25. JC - ex officer on January 21st, 2008

    Oh and as far as it goes “Good Citizen”. You also apparently know little about the “system”. When an inmate/criminal makes an accusation against an officer, there is no innocent until proven guilty. Anyone who says differently is lying. The officer is almost always guilty until proven innocent. Real abuse from an officer is generally quite rare.

  26. GoodCitizen on January 31st, 2008

    1. Our prison population is larger than even much more heavily populated and oppressive regimes like China. Prisons are now becoming big business with privatization.

    2. There are too many laws aimed at victimless crimes with unforgiving and inhuman sentencing guidelines. As laws become more draconian it elicits more extreme behaviour, more extreme enforcement, more extreme behaviour–a vicious circle.

    3. Security concerns are used as an excuse to strip every citizen that enters the system of every shred of human dignity. Sexual Assualt is apparently allowed, if not unofficially sanctioned.
    Those who allow/support/encourage sexual assault are just as sick as those who do it.

    4. Instilling PTSD, Forced Confessions, Planted Evidence, Torture, Murder, Abusive (to Civil Rights) Checkpoints/Stops/Searches/Seizures, Revenue Enhancing, Excessive Enforcement, etc…these types of events are far too common for comfort.

    Regardless of the pressures of the job, please don’t expect thinking people to respect those attracted to the power/violence the profession allows them to get away with or those who allow it to continue.

    I respect and support any police officer who works for positive change, supports civil rights, doesn’t practice a code of silence and serves with humility and compassion.

  27. sammy on February 22nd, 2009

    I had immense respect for all Police Officers until one moved in next door. Want to learn where Idaho’s taxes really go? Here’s the reality with no exaggerations.

    -He works no more than 1 week per month and is paid full time salary. He vacations (hunting, fishing, snow-machines, 4-wheelers, boats, motorcycles, etc) for roughly 3 weeks a month. His new (rather expensive) patrol car sits in his driveway, night & day. Didn’t we, the tax payers, pay for that new car?

    -They have dogs caged in their back yard that bark all hours of the night & day. A defined city nuisance.

    -They leave (at least) 500 watts of lights shining into my home all night to illuminate a small, 10ft stretch of their driveway. Another defined city nuisance.

    - he is overweight, dumpy and completely lazy. To get to his back yard (about 30 yards away), he uses a 4-wheeler. To get his mail, he drives (a total of maybe 40 yards).

    -He can’t park in his garage because it is FILLED with recreational vehicles. -no laws against that, but really just flaunting how he cheats the taxpayer. Two people live in the house, but they have 5 cars, plus the patrol car. Anything seem fishy yet?

    -I see him driving the patrol car in shorts & T-shirt. Once, to go to the C-store down the street. I’m pretty sure that’s a no-no.

    -They’ve fired all our local dispatchers, but he will still have his job? The state is “cutting back” by laying off people who actually work for a living, but he is protected? Why? My taxes are being wasted by a pathetic stain of life like officer ‘D’.

    -When he DOES work, he simply drives to the freeway, about 2 miles from his house, and clocks people. Then he goes home. Usually working a 4 to 5 hour shift.

    This is where Idaho’s taxes go, folks. I do plan on reporting him, but it’s hard to obtain public records without giving your own identity. And I am almost certain that the accusations will be dismissed without any actual investigation. I would also bet that I would be conveniently “guilty” of something shortly after reporting him.

    Maybe they should recruit from somewhere OTHER than military, as military does not always use the most morally accepted tactics. Unfortunately, a certain sense of invincibility occurs when a 22 year-old boy graduates the academy. Straight from military mentality, a conceded power trip emerges.

  28. sammy on February 22nd, 2009

    By the way JC, (ex-officer). Your quote: “I put up with crap from people for almost eight years as an officer” tells us you should not have been employed working with/for the PUBLIC.

    Perhaps you should have been a farm-hand or something that does not require a comprehension of “the public”. But as I am beginning to understand; intelligence comes in as a last priority for ISP recruits.

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