riggerrob

Agreed The more I learn about the legal industry the less I trust it.

Please steer this debate back to cops WEARING cameras.

............................................................................ Congratulations! You hit the nail on the head. When cameras cost less than lawyers, then cameras will dominate.

............................................................................. You mean videos of guys trolling around antagonizing cops .....? ............................................................................... Those police-provokers are STUPID! Anyone who tries to pick a fight with an armed man is STUPID! Stupid might be forgivable, but being stupid and malicious is not. Police-provoking is a dangerous practice that deserves a beating in most jurisdictions. Fortunately most North American cops are too professional to fall for that foolishness. Hopefully arming police with cameras will scare off a few "police provokers." cue evil laughter....... maybe we could have some fun by promoting a TV show that pits privileged police-provokers against beat cops in Paris, Mexico, the Phillipines, Singapore........

Sensible and legal are vastly different concepts.

What is PhoenixMart? City council's greatest fear appears to be a fear that skydivers will scare away wealthy people who arrive (at PhoenixMart) by executive jet. When was the last time a skydiver wrecked an executive jet?

If the airport receives federal funding, then Kutz should call on USPA' Airport Access Defense Fund to help his legal case. A dozen other town councils have learned - the hard way - that if they deny skydivers access they soon lose federal funding.

Back when cockpit video recorders were introduced, the Airline Pilots' Association (union) angrily declared that they did want video footage used to fire or discipline their member pilots. ALPA insisted that pilots be able to delete footage at the end of routine flights. It was common practice for the captain to ask the co-pilot "nothing unusual on that flight?" As soon as the co-pilot confirmed "nothing unusual" the captain pushed the delete button.

Police and the public are in a arms-race to see who can bring a better camera to the scene of confrontations between police and citizens?

..... I once crashed an entire large network by storing too many video files on it. ................................................ Admit it! You were watching porn on a company computer! Hah! Hah!

............................................................................. God did not write the American Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Both those documents were written by long-dead white men. They wrote both those documents for a vastly different country than the modern USA. That was long before the industrial revolution, long before steam locomotives, long before breach-loading fire-arms, long before magazine-fed rifles, long before machine guns. Back then the worst drug dealers imported tea without the appropriate tax stamps. Back then some of the authors of the Constitution and BOR investing in tea importation business. Their primary motivation was to arm local militias to prevent British soldiers from meddling in the tea trade .... tax stamps or no tax stamps. By that logic the American Constitution and BOR were both written by out-law drug dealers who wanted to entrench their "God-given right" to arm their gang members against the British government's tax-enforcement officers. B

The next step is sending photos (of you wearing the harness) to the Wings factory.

200 to 400 denier, nylon para-pack or oxford cloth with open-cell foam bonded to to the backside. Flame-bonded foam used to be fashionable, but the process made too many toxic fumes (only during production) that it fell out of fashion. Ever since then foam-backed fabric has been difficult to find. A few mills now glue foam onto Oxford cloth, but it is difficult to find.

Have you packed canopies into it?

There are no civilian DZs in China. The nearest equivalent would be a German Army Sports Regiment where the best and brightest athletes do their compulsory military service (draft, conscription) on the tennis court or football field.

...... I don't know how the officials handle it at your place but I suppose an accident or a fatality would throw civil skydiving in China quite a few steps back. Think about it! ............................................................................ We have been trying to tell you that civilian skydiving is almost non-existent in Mainland China. How can you set back something that does not exist??????? If he dies at a government-sponsored DZ, embarrassed officials will probably try to hush it up. Bejing will not waste time worrying about one stupid peasant killing himself while doing something stupid. Local press may never hear about the accident and they will be far too polite to print any stories. His family will never sue the Chinese Air Force for their son's crimes. The incidence of civilians jumping from Chinese Air Force airplanes will drop from 0.000001 percent to zero. Soup may taste funny tomorrow! Hah! Hah!

Yes, I got that impression from reading the article. Another friend/CSPA Instructor/BASE jumper told me the same story a month earlier just after he helped Lonnie leap off the bridge. I welcome CANPARA's new editorial policy, but wonder why CSPA took so many decades to change its policy about BASE?

This where the thread started to wander off topic. If you want to join the Canadaian Army Veterans Motorycle Club, you must prove service in the Canadian Armed Forces or Royal Canadian amounted Police, served with an allied Commonwealth or NATO army). Without military service, the best you can hope for is "associate" membership. CAV is mainly about meeting for group rides. CAV does a few charity rides and I am trying to learn how many funeral rides CAV goes on.

Since machine guns and rocket launchers are "prohibited" they are rare in Canada. Only criminals carry "prohibited" weapons in Canada, ergo few Canadians are killed by "prohibited" weapons. The majority of Canadian shooting victims are already "known to police" while most of the shooters are also "known to police." As long as criminals limit shootings to other criminals, the average Canadian citizen prefers to ignore the whole issue of gun violence with "prohibited weapons."

What do you think of beat cops (foot patrol) wearing video cameras all the time they are on duty Existing cameras can be mounted on hats, spectacles or vests. Some police forces have noted dramatic decreases in complaints from citizens. Some prosecutors have noted reductions in courtroom debates. If you were a beat cop, would you want internal affairs to second-guess every decision you made on duty? How would a police officers' union react if one of their members was disciplined/fired solely on video evidence? What if fire-fighters were ordered to wear cameras? What if EMTs were ordered to wear cameras?

***We got called out 1-2 a month when I was a SWAT guy back in the late 80's to late 90's. The team is seldom called out anymore, mainly due to budget constraints and manpower issues. ............................................................................................ Agreed The incidence of violent crimes (amateur snipers, school massacres, riots, etc.) has not changed significantly. The difference is that now SWAT Teams are increasingly used to serve "high risk" warrants on drug dealers, meth labs, etc. Police now use the 'war on drugs' to justify militarized SWAT Teams. Police now rarely face fire arms except in the hands of drug dealers.

***Dave Grossman actually started the whole sheep vs. sheepdog thing many years ago. ........................................................................... When policemen grow up (graduate to the next lifetime?) do they become Bouvier de Flandres or perhaps Great Pyrennes sheep dogs????????

................................................................................... After going back to read Jerry's comment and reviewing the original video, I concluded that the Portland, Oregon radio commentator was unprofessional because he failed to check his facts (e.g. watch the original video) before speculating on the air. I even phoned Jerry to confirm that he heard the story on the local National Public Radio affiliate. Jerry said that he took the story at face value because NPR's quality is normally more reliable than competing commercial radio stations. We were both disappointed when we realized that NPR have allowed their fact-checking quality to deteriorate. That makes audiences wonder of some-one at NPR has an anti-gun agenda???????? It is sad when the media allow political agendas to interfere with honest reporting. If you are wondering about my personal agenda, I have a slightly pro-gun bias (see my recent review of the FG 42 rifle), but guns in the hands of bungling amateurs (e.g. 9-year-old girls) scare the crap out of me!!!!!! In the end, both Jerry and I agree that giving fully-automatic Uzis to 9-year-old girls is idiotic!

What??? Don't people tend to end up naked sooner or later at every dropzone? You should come to Sweden mate ... ............................................................................... Scandanavians are so much more relaxed about public nakedness than the average American. Sadly, American society still has a Puritanical streak. That reminds me of a Bavarian boogie back during the 1980s .... a couple of German spectators were sun-bathing top-less. One of those German women had an awesome pair of watermelons! "They are just trying to get attention" said my Dutch girlfriend before she dragged me into my tent and ....... let your imagination run wild! Hah! Hah!

What if our modern rigger LAPESed a box of ammo out the back of a pick-up truck ..... to demonstrate the concept? What if he LAPESed jeep off the back of a deuce and a half truck? Remember that parachuting cargo (e.g. Jeeps) was a primitive process back during the 1940s. Hint, only half the Jeeps parachuted to the SAS during the summer of 1944 could be driven off the DZ. The other half were wrecked.