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Language barrier plagues Mesa police
East Valley Tribune ^
| 4 NOV 2007
| Katie McDevitt,
Posted on 11/04/2007 4:45:36 AM PST by radar101
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To: modican
We must be in the early stage: We will know it's bad when: The Officer can't speak English.Unless something is done that is the way it's headed.... I'm seeing more Spanish first advertisements in southern California (otherwise known as Mexifornia or "Ground Zero")... won't be long at this rate until it's Spanish only...
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posted on
11/04/2007 7:51:48 PM PST
by
Niteflyr
("If you’re drawing flak, you know you're over the target".)
To: radar101
“A lot of them get frustrated when officers don’t speak Spanish,” Oh boo frickin' hoo....geez....
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posted on
11/04/2007 7:56:00 PM PST
by
Niteflyr
("If you’re drawing flak, you know you're over the target".)
To: radar101
Be thankful that its an easy European language in a Latin alphabet. Think how bad it would be if it were Mandarin or Arabic...
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posted on
11/04/2007 7:59:18 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: ARE SOLE
“I’ve been on calls where people are yelling at me because I don’t speak enough Spanish.”
Sounds to me like they are hysterical and need a night stick upside the head,If they are yelling at you, they aren’t taking care of their ninos, so it would be “for the children”.
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posted on
11/04/2007 7:59:31 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
To: philetus
Sounds to me like they are hysterical and need a night stick upside the head,If they are yelling at you, they aren’t taking care of their ninos, so it would be “for the children”. A little wall to wall counseling. The international language.
Regards
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posted on
11/04/2007 8:43:32 PM PST
by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".))
To: Marine Inspector
Exactly my point. And if they did, well then, that would be their mistake.
Being polite is a good personal policy. If I do my best to be polite to people and treat them respectfully, even if they don't respond in kind, I can sleep well knowing I have done my best and acted appropriately.
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posted on
11/05/2007 5:12:10 AM PST
by
Pablo64
(What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.)
To: pnh102
Every illegal knows what the word “INS” means. Perhaps if we started saying it more, and following through on it, we would have fewer of these problems. I've considered starting an ice cream truck business like the old *Good Humor* units, and naming the business la migra.
I figure once the kids run through their neighborhoods yelling ¡La migra es aqui! ¡Es la migra! those neighborhoods ought to thin out real quick....
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posted on
11/05/2007 9:01:26 AM PST
by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
To: pnh102
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posted on
11/05/2007 9:04:30 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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