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Question Johnson724, I was in Chicago this past weekend for Pride (I am not gay - not that there is anything wrong with that) Our Police Officers that were on duty in front of us at the Parade where great! Looking through the pictures it appears that they were intentionally covering their badges - would that be the case?

Originally Posted by natascha

Question Johnson724, I was in Chicago this past weekend for Pride (I am not gay - not that there is anything wrong with that) Our Police Officers that were on duty in front of us at the Parade where great! Looking through the pictures it appears that they were intentionally covering their badges - would that be the case?

Not sure so I have to ask some questions. Were they the officers that we doing crowd control or were they in the parade?

How were they covering the badges? Was it with their hands or did they actually have something covering them.

Were they only doing it when pictures were taken? Or the whole time?

Maybe then I could give a swag at it.

Actually may have an answer for you without the above questions being answered.

June 14th 2011
Officer Paul Nauden suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting an undercover narcotics buy as part of a large narcotics investigation.

While on scene he informed other undercover officers that he did not feel well and could not complete the transaction. He left the scene in order to not jeopardize the operation and the other officers. He flagged down a passing ambulance a short distance away and was transported to a local hospital. He passed away early the next morning.

Officer Nauden had served with the Chicago Police Department for 21 years and was assigned to the Narcotics Section. He is survived by his wife and two young daughters.

If the officers were wearing black bands or black covers over their badges this is why.

They were on crowd control. They used their hands to cover the badges only when they knew the picture was being taken. They were wearing 'vests' and would put both hands up kinda grabbing the vest but there hands would cover the badge.

Also, Much later in the afternoon after they had been standing for hours and nothing was really going on the 3 of them went to sit on the ledge that all the guys at the hotel would sit on to 'watch the hotties go by' I jumped up to take a picture of them, they could not hop up fast enough to not get caught 'sitting on the job'.

I Loved our cops this year!! And everyone was good to them, giving them water, getting them food etc.

I just read through this whole thread and-- WOW! LOVED IT! I hope you keep posting the stories.

I have one of my own to share from the other side-- I know someone who works for the public defender's office for capital crimes. Sometimes, they share with me funny non-case-related things that happen.

One time, they were visiting a Hispanic fellow who was charged with murder. Earlier, he'd been instructed to not talk to ANYONE about his case. At All. Period. During one of his phone calls he'd talked to his mother in Spanish. They talked about the case. (Cuz, in Arizona, for some reason some Hispanics assume that Spanish is a secret language no one else can interpret.) Those phone conversations from prison are recorded, typed up (translated, if necessary) and given both to the defense and prosecution.

Obviously, the lawyer was furious when he saw the transcript! The fellow may have jeopardized the case. I was told the conversation between lawyer and "Juan" (made up name) went something like this:

Lawyer: I told you not to talk about the case to anyone.

Juan: I haven't talked to anyone about the case.

Lawyer: Well, someone has been talking about your case.

Juan: WHAT? Who would do that?! Tell me who snitched on me?! I'm gonna kick his ass!

Lawyer: *slams the transcript to the glass* You! You're the snitch!

... part of me wants to see "Juan" try to kick his own ass...

Johnson, really glad to hear that there are some good cops out there who will work a scene without trying to pin it on someone just to wrap it up and get a bonus for closing the case. It sounds like you've kept your integrity. Some things my insider has told me about cops lying on the stand, handling evidence poorly or just plain not doing their jobs have made me leery of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.... I don't want to get tied to something I didn't do.

Though, my inside contact has been asked how they can defend "the bad guys"-- they told me something quite cool about their job. They said that they believe in the Constitution and the right to a trial by a jury of peers and several other articles in the Bill of Rights. They also said that if you were an innocent on trial for a crime you didn't commit, wouldn't you want an advocate? You can't argue with that logic.

Keep up the good work. Keep the stories coming. =)

Originally Posted by jadewik

I just read through this whole thread and-- WOW! LOVED IT! I hope you keep posting the stories.

I have one of my own to share from the other side-- I know someone who works for the public defender's office for capital crimes. Sometimes, they share with me funny non-case-related things that happen.

One time, they were visiting a Hispanic fellow who was charged with murder. Earlier, he'd been instructed to not talk to ANYONE about his case. At All. Period. During one of his phone calls he'd talked to his mother in Spanish. They talked about the case. (Cuz, in Arizona, for some reason some Hispanics assume that Spanish is a secret language no one else can interpret.) Those phone conversations from prison are recorded, typed up (translated, if necessary) and given both to the defense and prosecution.

Obviously, the lawyer was furious when he saw the transcript! The fellow may have jeopardized the case. I was told the conversation between lawyer and "Juan" (made up name) went something like this:

Lawyer: I told you not to talk about the case to anyone.

Juan: I haven't talked to anyone about the case.

Lawyer: Well, someone has been talking about your case.

Juan: WHAT? Who would do that?! Tell me who snitched on me?! I'm gonna kick his ass!

Lawyer: *slams the transcript to the glass* You! You're the snitch!

... part of me wants to see "Juan" try to kick his own ass...

Johnson, really glad to hear that there are some good cops out there who will work a scene without trying to pin it on someone just to wrap it up and get a bonus for closing the case. It sounds like you've kept your integrity. Some things my insider has told me about cops lying on the stand, handling evidence poorly or just plain not doing their jobs have made me leery of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.... I don't want to get tied to something I didn't do.

Though, my inside contact has been asked how they can defend "the bad guys"-- they told me something quite cool about their job. They said that they believe in the Constitution and the right to a trial by a jury of peers and several other articles in the Bill of Rights. They also said that if you were an innocent on trial for a crime you didn't commit, wouldn't you want an advocate? You can't argue with that logic.

Keep up the good work. Keep the stories coming. =)

Awesome story, thanks for sharing.

Our calls are recorded too and the inmates are supposed to have a pin number to make the calls. Of course they share the pin numbers with their buddies. When I was in homicide I would personally talk to the jailers on the floor and have them log the time my target would make a call. That way I wouldnt have to search through all the calls on the floor.

Alot of the guys I work with, I may not agree with their methods alot of times because sometimes the envelope gets pushed. But I am pretty satisfied to say that the arrests we have made on our cases, I firmly believe that they were the ones that did it. We didnt just pick out a problem child and pin the case on them. If we locked them up...we believed they did it.

Originally Posted by natascha

They were on crowd control. They used their hands to cover the badges only when they knew the picture was being taken. They were wearing 'vests' and would put both hands up kinda grabbing the vest but there hands would cover the badge.

Also, Much later in the afternoon after they had been standing for hours and nothing was really going on the 3 of them went to sit on the ledge that all the guys at the hotel would sit on to 'watch the hotties go by' I jumped up to take a picture of them, they could not hop up fast enough to not get caught 'sitting on the job'.

I Loved our cops this year!! And everyone was good to them, giving them water, getting them food etc.

Okay, they were hiding their badge numbers. A lot of agencies have numbers on their shields (ours does not). That identifies the officer.

And as far as sitting on the ledge...probably something I would do

Most of the time if the cameras come out, we all dodge and duck. Even the ones that love being on camera will do it until someone needs an interview.

Glad you had a good experience with them....wish I could get someone to offer me water at some of the scenes I worked at.

Speaking of badge numbers. A lot of times we will have people not happy with us for some reason and ask us for our badge number. My response would be, if you can find it you can have it. We use our car numbers.

Hmmm some other responses to little quips like that:

I'll have your job!!!! Well you can have it but the hours and the benefits suck.

I pay your salary!!!! Good, give me a raise


Well I had more than that but I got a phone call that got me distracted. I am all hyped up about going to work tomorrow now. We may have a lead on an unsolved murder that I worked a year and a half ago. So all of my wise cracks went flying out the window. I'll will try to think of them and write them down.

I could use some of those remarks. I had this cop who really liked me due to my spiked collar and trench coat. Didnt help I drove a retired black n white. Stopped me four times in one month on bs things. One night I was having a bad night at the apartment so I got up and went for a walk about. Wasnt even a quarter block away from the apartment and I get flashing lights, spot light, and the maglight. We'll call him officer brown. Same one that had been ticketing me all month. Soon as I get to where I could see who it was I walked up to the car and said "sir, if youre going to keep stopping me to see me the least you can do is buy me dinner." He sent me on my way and have rarely seen him since.

A lot of times when I come home from work my granddaughter likes to get dressed up in my police gear. She goes around the house with my boots, belt, handcuffs, trooper hat etc....chasing and arresting us. She was doing that last night.

Once she was done I went to put my trooper hat back up (thank god I dont have to wear that thing except on very rare occasions) when I had an idea. I told Tori to wait out in the bedroom and I closed the closet door. I changed into my uniform (which I havnt worn in about two years, probably more) stuck a pillow under my shirt so I would have a gut. Put my gunbelt on hanging down on one side, had my shirt tails sticking out a little just basically made myself look all sloppy.

I came out, Tori started laughing and ran into the living room where my stepdaughter and a friend of hers were watching TV and I started putting on a show. I was doing my best drill instructor, redneck cop voice, walking around chewing them out. Kept hitching my pants up. then I started chasing Tori around but I was running like I was all out of shape and pretending I was talking on the radio while I was chasing her.

Dispatch I got one runnin!! Send me some cars I need some of that backup!! Dispatch could you send one of those cars to pick up a twelve pack of donuts!!! Officer down!!! Officer Down!!!! I think I slipped a disk!!!!

I had them dying laughing. The moment they had the presence of mind to grab their phones to take a picture, I slapped my hand over my badge and ran back to my room. We had a blast...but noooo pictures.