More police advocacy
The Lima Police Swat Team had a rather frightening web page showing a ninja shooting at you. They’ve taken it down but Google Cache is forever. See cache here. Also, fodder notes their anti-gun activism.
Update and bump: Seems there may be another reason they removed the ninja popping a cap from the main page:
Jennifer Brindisi, a spokesman for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, said federal agents are working with the agency to determine how Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot to death and her 14-month-old son, Sincere Wilson, wounded during the Friday night raid at their East Third Street home. She said the FBI likely will examine the case for possible civil-rights violations as well.
Update 2: Note the ninja image is still on their server (here) but removed from the page. I’ve saved it for reference:
Though in comments, Standard Mischief points out that using the image, like the SWAT page did, may violate copyrights.
Update 3: putting image below the fold because, man, is it annoying:
January 11th, 2008 at 12:20 am
wow they even have a link to a “No Guns Sign” PDF file for stores to use.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Google cache is not forever. It is, however, usually long enough. Anyone else that wants to see the image, well it’s still on the site. URL deeplink is here.
The best part about all of this is that if you pull a little *nix mischief:
# strings swat.gif|headyou’ll see the following:
33f33333
NETSCAPE2.0
ACopyright 1998 Jim Wagner.
Do not use this copyrighted material.
XAd%k
So should we send in the Lima, Ohio SWAT team on a copyright infringement warrant? Perhaps a DMCA takedown notice?
January 11th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Nice to see that they are “serving and Protecting” the subjects of Lima Ohio.
Nothing quite sends a message of oppression like showing the way you will be seeing the local police when they arrive to clean up after a crime.
Who ever designed that website should be fired. (Out of a cannon)
January 11th, 2008 at 11:05 am
The gif is pretty good work, though. Note the reflection on the helmet and armor of the ‘flash’. Mr. Wagner seems to be pretty talented and should be compensated by the Lima PD for his work, meh thinks…
January 11th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Boy, that image really does say “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help you!” doesn’t it?
January 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I couldn’t pull up his website last night, but there seems to be a Jim Wagner that runs SWAT team training sessions. At least that’s what Google says.
January 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Firefox mischief: If you have annoying animated images like this on a page and you wish them to stop cycling, just hit the
Esckey. I don’t know if it works in IE.January 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Nice pic of a cop that’s done his “homework”. We should ask the Vung family in Minneapolis how accurate it is.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Unless your shooting into a mirror, you are not going to get that flash on the helmet. Clearly the only solution is to send heavly armed swat crews to kick in the door of the webmaster, designer, chief of police, swat commanders homes to effect the arrest. After all, we know many of them have guns. Some may have used one. Better safe than sorry.
January 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
standard mischief, thanks for the firefox tip!
January 11th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I used to live in Lima. I didn’t meet many of the cops, but those I did were indicative of a subhuman species and had no regard for citizens. Fortunately, I had very little interaction with them, but I did see how they operated.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I think you’re right about rounding up the department’s command structure. You better make that a no-knock warrant. Who can hear them scream “POLICE!” if it’s masked by a battering ram crashing in their front door?
January 12th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Shoot everybody armed with an assault baby. I can’t wait to hear them say something along those lines. They will.
January 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
BTW, let’s have a contest: let’s “shop” the web for various city SWAT sites and publish links – they are full of examples like this – indicating perhaps the same mind set?
January 13th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Jim Wagner’s training site is back up, but I can’t find the image to confirm it’s his.
The exact same image (md5sums match) is available on this web page, although there’s some lame anti right-click javascript. (he’s got a copyright notice on his page too) Simple workaround is just to use the deep link.
Here too, although it’s slightly different. Deep link (no copyright embedded in this one)
Exercise left for the reader.
Exercise left for the reader.