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WP Drill School ERA 59

Training with ropes , Over the Top.

New Rochelle Hospital (now Sound Shore) was one of the places that had emergency power long-term. Along with necessities like operating rooms, etc, NRH also fed emergency to one place it wasn't really needed...the spotlights on the roof that lit the American Flag. It stayed lit throughout the night.

Received a 911 call about a violation of an order of protection. Upon arrival we found a soon to be ex husband and wife both sitting on a couch in the living room. Both were on a phone (Separate lines) to their lawyers. Each insisted that we talk to their lawyer first. We determined that both had an order of protection against each other and both claimed that the other broke the order. After we received a few details we determined that both had violated the order and we arrested both. I flipped a coin and told each lawyer that both were under arrest and they could visit their clients at HQ.
That was the last call we received from that house.
Received a 911 call from a parent wanting a police officer to tell his kid to do his homework.
I can’t tell you how many 911 hang-ups we received by someone trying to call overseas (011). Broke down a few doors while the person was on the phone to a relative in Europe.

Several locals called 911 because..."My electricity went out."

WP Drill School ERA 59

Training with ropes , Over the Top.

If I can go off-topic...
This thread has brought back A LOT of memories.
One is about the way White Plains began to change in the late 1960s and 1970s. Today it's almost unrecognizable compared to the White Plains I knew from about 1955-1966.
When I was a youngster, in the early 1960s, we were always going 'downtown': to Macy's or Woolworth's or the Library, to the RKO or Loew's. That was a big deal to us then. In the mid-1960s I lived near Lake Street. The 'Valley.' Like many Lake Street kids I seldom left the neighborhood. Except to go to WPHS and that was way out on North Street.
Then I started working full-time. I had a small apartment on Barker Avenue. I remember in late 1968 or early 1969, one morning I got up early, around 8:30 AM -- I was working nights -- and walked over to Main Street to get the morning papers at the White Swan Stationary store. And I hadn't been around that part of Main Street much for several years. I walked over to Hamilton Avenue and cut through Conway Drive by the new Sears parking deck. Back then Conway Drive didn't have a name. I don't think the parking deck was even completely finished.
When I walked down Conway Drive and turned the corner onto Main what a shock! At 8:30 AM the sidewalks were wall-to-wall people. Office workers. They had opened the office towers along North Broadway above Sears. I couldn't believe my eyes. I turned the corner and I felt like I had stepped into Manhattan.
Just a few years earlier, Main St at 8:30 in the morning would've been mostly deserted. Why would anyone have been there that early? Macy's wasn't open that early. There would just be some delivery trucks, at the Daitch-Shopwell, maybe a couple more at Joe's White Swan deli near Broadway.
Back then the Sears site was still an AT&T parking lot. (A 'lot' not a 'deck.') One North Broadway was a small Con Ed office. There was a little insurance company further north on Broadway, a two- or three-story red brick building. (I think that's still there.) Then, closer to Hamilton Avenue, there was an old Victorian house converted to office's. I used to deliver the Reporter-Dispatch on that side of B'way. There was a prominent White Plains lawyer with an office in the converted house, I think. Basil Filardi. I used to deliver his paper. (Or was he on Church Street? I used to deliver the papers on Church Street, too.)
Then it all changed. And kept changing. In fact, White Plains is still changing!

White Plains 1959
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I have been dispatching wpfd for 16 years and your right call me some time would love to talk

WPPD has been dispatching for WPFD for at least 15 yrs. They still can't get it right.

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White Plains 1959
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Quick thought experiment:
I randomly walk up to on the street and start following and start a fight (note: I make sure I tuck my gun in my waistband before I approach you).
You, being randomly attack on the street, start to fight back and you know what you are bigger and stronger than I am thus you are able to pin me on the ground.
I, seeing that I am losing the fight, the fight I started, pull my gun and shoot you in the chest.
Did I shoot you in self defense (you were kicking my ass), or did I commit murder (I started the fight)?
Granted my thought experiment is most likely not what happened (only GM knows) but it is certainly highlights the idea that provoking the fight does not necessarily mean that you get to shoot someone in the chest after they attack you.

GZ called 911. It does not really matter what authority the dispatcher has, what I think matters is that GZ was on the phone with what any prudent person would consider a competent authority. That "competent authority" advised him what to do. Whether or not the dispatcher's "orders" are legally binding or not is ridiculous to even consider. He did not heed that advice. The rest is history. Any Security/Neighborhood watch that has any competent level of training would have been trained to listen to the advice of a dispatcher.
My opinion is that this is a case of an armed, poorly trained, plainclothes half-azzed neighborhood watchman who was a police wanna-be, playing cop, sticking his nose where it did not belong, This incident was doomed to go sideways from the beginning.
As for the dispatcher...if he had heeded that advice, we would not be having this conversation now.
This was all my OPINION. I am not going to debate it. I am not going to change my OPINION. Agree or disagree: fine. I will respect that. Have a differing opinion, I am willing to listen. I will probably not agree, but I will not argue or try and change your mind.

This was the brainchild of a former chief and current DPW commissioner. Strictly a penny pinching move.
Junk from the first day it arrived.

Yea thats not going t happen. Your source is wrong