Mercedes driver taken into custody after backing into retaining wall
October 27, 2014
Boyd A. Loving
6:00 PM
Ridgewood NJ, The male driver of a 4-door Mercedes Benz sedan was taken into custody by several Ridgewood PD uniformed patrol officers late Monday afternoon after backing his vehicle into a retaining wall in front of the Kings Supermarket at 112 North Maple Avenue, Ridgewood. No one was injured in the crash, which occurred at 4:15 PM. A flatbed tow truck removed the vehicle from the scene. Traffic was slowed in both directions on North Maple Avenue while police & the tow truck driver worked. Police on location would not say why the driver was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car. However, the individual was observed staggering along the sidewalk after officers removed him from his vehicle.
Photo credit: Boyd A. Loving
Damn….don’t underestimate how difficult it is to drive backwards in the CBD.
Day-drinking requires better planning than that. At no point should you be driving, let alone in a supermarket parking lot, after a long Monday at the watering hole.
Also, I’m guessing the RPD doesn’t have a gym? Christ, I get two emails a month from my health insurance company encouraging me to get in shape, and our cops look like that despite their health plans?
That’ll buff right out.
#2 – my thought too….nothing should be hanging over the belt.
What are you racist # 2,3,4
That’s why it takes four of them to restrain one individual.
Not really. Yeah the black guy has the most obvious gut in the photos but they’re all doughboys.
And the driver was white (looks like the picture was taken down).
Let’s not forget the classic case a few years ago of the two R’Wood officers who got out of the patrol car and more-or-less simultaneously slipped over on the ice. Double Officer Down event. Does anyone know what the eventual outcome of that was? Any disability retirements?
I’d like to see annual physical fitness tests for the officers.
Thats not true #8 and you know it. You just throwing shit out there to see what sticks. #9 why don’t you go to the police department and ask to see them. #7 That” BLACK GUY” would kick you ass with one hand tied behind his back.
nice to see all you “residents” know who your police officers are….the “black guy” is Shane James…been on the job for years…..and #5…your and idiot.
No… YOU are racist for viewing all comments through a racial lens…
Ok bigmouth.
In order to get hired, candidates must pass a physical fitness test.
Why not require annual tests in order to see that the officers are able to perform physically to the same standards that were used to hire them?
If they are out of shape, they are at a higher risk of becoming injured on the job (especially when working the 12 hour shifts)(and added cost to the Village financially to fill their shifts when they are out with an injury)
It makes no sense to have physical fitness as a hiring requirement, then ignoring it for 25 years of employment when it really matters.
If the officers actually LIVED in town, the RESIDENTS might KNOW who the officers are!
They work 3 days one week, 4 the next?
How would you expect to residents to KNOW the officers unless they were having interactions with the police as victims or suspects?
Its not like the old days when they would actually LIVE in town, or get out of the squad cars and WALK the beat.
It was reported on this very site, with statements issued by Ridgewood PD about what happened.
Make no mistake about it, its just a ‘job’.
If Officers do not live here, they have nothing to do with the Village except for collecting their paychecks, then going home to Sussex county or elsewhere.
In the old days, most of the officers lived here, had families here, and were part of the community.
We went through this thread months ago naming lots of the old ‘good guys’.
I don’t think I could name three or four current officers on the force that I know , which is not good, especially having lived here for almost fifty years.
Alot of the officers live in Ridgewood or nearby including the James’ so layoff. Many, many of the names on the current roster are familiar to me; I see them around town shopping, at their kids sporting events and concerts, and I know they’ve been active in Ridgewood outside of the Department.
I continue to believe that the residency requirement for new hires limits the potential pool of candidates and also guarantees a lack of diversity in new thinking in the department. If we only hire people who live here, we end up getting lots of legacies, i.e. 3/4 of the most recent hires were legacies. How does this help us bring new ideas, and fresh approaches, when the son of a legacy has his father looking over his shoulder in to the current department and influencing the department’s thinking via his proxy ? How can a smart cadet from Ho-Ho-Kus, Waldwick, Midland Park, Glenrock or Paramus not be of interest to us just because they live four miles away from Village Hall instead of three? I would argue the policy, as it stands today, is largely there to ensure places for legacies.
#18, The Ridgewood legacy problem has very little effect on your life. The real legacy problem is in politics as in Clintons and Bushes. These legacies have the power to tax, regulate, mandate and directly impact your life in a way that NO legacy employee can. You want to rail against legacy, try doing it on something that really matters, Politics.