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rossdowdell t1_jefq1dt wrote

Reply to comment by enn_sixty_four in Person shot on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia by WestPhillyFilly

Physical requirements are waved because no one healthy is applying. So you get Police Academy movie characters.

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enn_sixty_four t1_jefqlth wrote

This was almost ten yrs ago. Was that the case then too?

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tansugaqueen t1_jeg87d1 wrote

not that I know anything, but I thought weight requirements were only for when you & apply & are in the academy, once you are done -not enforced- again don’t know this to be fact

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meateatr t1_jeg72mc wrote

Philly is the only city that I've seen a cop on a traffic stop at the driver's window with a cigar in his mouth.

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rossdowdell t1_jeg825s wrote

It is gonna be a crackpipe before too long.

One of the most terrifying conversations I had in the last few years was with a police recruiter a few months back. You have no idea how talentless the PPD is going to be when the next wave of pensioners retires.

So many in here love to take shots at the PPD. OK. Many they deserve it, but when you see what passes for a Philly cop in a few short years, you will move to Wyoming---and then vote the same way that caused you to leave Philly.

Fat, dumb, old cops are the future of this city. I hope I am wrong, but I ain't.

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