Goodbye Kojak...

[Spicerack]

The NYPD are disbanding their plain-clothes anti-crime units.
Apparently they kept getting into violent confrontations with c̶r̶o̶, oops, I mean the oppressed community .

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/nyregion/nypd-plainclothes-cops.html

[Bobbisox1]

Awww I thought Telly Savales had died ( again)

[Spicerack]

Lucky they didn't get woke in the sixties.
We'd have had nothing to watch in the 70's.

[Spicerack]

Turning in his grave, he is, turning in his grave, bobbi.

[Bobbisox1]

I could never understand why he continually sucked on a lolly haha

[Spicerack]

Huggy Bear will be running riot without Starsky & Hutch keeping an eye on him.

[Bobbisox1]

They don’t make ‘em like that anymore Spicey, Saturday nights back in the day

[Peter Pedant]

I looked it up on Newsday and go this
https://projects.newsday.com/gdpr/

you cant access this site on the land of the free because those damned euro sybscribe to the protections of the GDPR - and we dont

[Peter Pedant]

blimiey

//I could never understand why he continually sucked on a lolly haha// fentanyl lolly - oh god no one here is gonna understand what one is

Minnesota was discussing it -and new York did it

happened here with the SPG ( special patrol group ) the great big strong plain clothes bobbies who used to screw red hot trot protesters and give them babies - those ones

woke up one day and didn have a job and the babies didnt have daddies

when they were dissolved they were told to destroy their records but that is another story

[retrocop]

Did GMP have a SPG unit? We had them in the Met .Again your medication seems to confuse you with the facts. The plain clothes officers to whom you refer as 'screwing trots' were not SPG.
There was a specialist unit that infiltrated certain anarchic groups,especially,PETA and became intimate with the female members purely on a professional basis.Perhaps you are confusing the SPG with the SDG (Special Demonstration Group).
PP. You must try harder if you wish to impress how erudite you are.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/28/police-investigate-officer-who-infiltrated-environmental-groups

[Spicerack]

I, for one, was very impressed with their devotion to duty, retro. ;-)

Young gadabouts like PP don't know the meaning of the word.

[retrocop]

Spicey
I was thinking recently about the now disbanded SPG. They were undoubtedly the answer to Parliament Square and Whitehall. Highly mobile,motivated and well equipped. If there were a spate of particular crimes in a London district the commander would request the SPG. A few units flooded the area in plain clothes and uniform. Within days the crime wave ebbed and the cells were full.
They were particularly well trained in public 'disorder' events and they quickly ,shall we say, did what was expected of them.
Cue PP and the count down starts 10,9,..... for a rambling lecture on Blair Peach and the Southall Riots. I have been in several Heavy Duty London Riots. My first was Grosvenor Square. I would rather the SPG behind me than PP. :-)

[douglas9401]

What a rosy glow we're basking in today.

[Spicerack]

Bit like the cops in the OP, retro. Sometimes you've got to dish out a bit of tough 'love'.
Guess those days are gone. They're more likely to propose to their boyfriend on Pride March duty than get stuck in.

[Peter Pedant]

,
Other police forces outside London created their own versions of the Special Patrol Group. The Greater Manchester Police created the Tactical Aid Group (TAG) in 1977.o the answer to one question is yes

// Perhaps you are confusing the SPG with the SDG (Special Demonstration Group). [writes the divine Retro] PP. You must try harder if you wish to impress how erudite you are.//

PP feels reproved, humiliated and Must Try Harder.
he was wrong by one word - but such a word etc

could it be this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Demonstration_Squad
it differs from Retro;s by - - - one word
and look ! ( or "eedoo!" as they say in N T Greek )
here;s
https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/special-demonstration-squad-tradecraft-manual-and-related-documents/

can this be the book that tells those honest bobbies how to knock up the red hot trots and then disappear ?

well - when the SDS was closed down for just not sticking to the law and not agreeing to try to do so - -- an order went out to destroy all records - wh being a disobedient lot - some didnt do (*)

I think Retro should tell us

(*) a few officers noticed being asked to destroy records was completely contrary to their training and one at least kept the the hard drive from a destroyed computer

[Peter Pedant]

// Sometimes you've got to dish out a bit of tough 'love'.//

tough love - they were dishing out babies Spicey - which can be tough to bring up when the Dad disappears and the 'fella' died at the age of 6 and it is really someone else

[Spicerack]

All part & parcel of working under the cover, pp.
You're not seriously expecting me to have any sympathy for the mothers of revolution, are you.

[Peter Pedant]

erm yes - because you were bringing them up - by your taxes
Instead of the father paying ( or the police authority as employer) as is normal law
all part of the 'we are above the law and so someone else takes responsibility'