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102 degrees and still someone walking down the street in a hoodie… every damn day.

Hoodies over three t-shirts, jogging pants under jeans, two pair shorts, all at the same time.

Hides their identity. Allows them to change appearance quickly. The baggy sagging clothing helps hide the outline of a machete or large frame pistol. The baggy front pocket is good to keep a pistol in hand ready for action.

Multi layers of cloth will turn a knife edge, stop a shiv or shank, and turn hollow point bullets into effectively full metal jacket by plugging the nose. Poor man's body armor.

These are thugs, keep distance, head on a swivel. Stay alert around such people.

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MAKE SONGS LONGER 5mo ago

Knives go through clothing

𝕯𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖙 5mo ago

Most don't carry sharp blades. Just factory edges.

Multiple loose layers prevent slashing cuts and some stabbing cuts.

40 years behind the badge, 30 plus in corrections. Retied Deputy Warden. I have seen a lot of knife / shank fights. I have seen blades break in muscle and bone. Thick clothing will turn a blade if worn loose.

They will get cut, but the cuts are shallow. They get stabbed but the wounds are shallow. Comparatively. Not great body armor but it is what they have, cheap and unless your are "in the know" invisible. Better than nothing.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 5mo ago

Now you know some idiot is gonna think wearing 3 shirts is gonna protect them 🤣

What is the best shank you’ve ever seen?

𝕯𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖙 5mo ago

We DOC staff and officers would raid private and parish jails four times yearly.

Was searching housing unit in Winnfield. Held by magnets from head phones to the bottom of the bed was two 12 in X 1 in X 1/8 in steel pieces. Each sharpened to a point like a dagger. The handles were medical tape wrapped. All had cords to tie on the wrists. If the inmate got stunned in a fight he would not loose his weapon.

Inmates used the concrete walls and floors to sharpen and shape the weapons.

Many of the private run jails my team and I searched we routinely found lockblade pocket knives and few fixed blade tactical knives. Smuggled in by corrupt officers.

This is a pict of cloth armor from the viking age.

Quite thick but same principle.

Sometimes worn under armor and sometimes was the main armor.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 5mo ago

That’s pretty sophisticated. Best one I ever saw we found outside our recovery center.

It was part of a bicycle, like a top tube, so it looked like just a piece of trash left behind. But inside it had a blade! So if you aimed it and shook it just right, the blade would pop right out. Someone was a mechanical genius. And also probably pretty high, because they left it behind.

Taught substance abuse classes in county jail, but never had any issues there. It was more peaceful than the recovery center. Working in the jail was vacation.

𝕯𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖙 5mo ago

Thank you for your service in corrections.

I never worked the rehab lockups.

Louisiana has the most dangerous prisons in the nation.

One prison I worked at for 23 years from Cadet to Compound Major had 1,180 beds. As Deputy Warden I had a complex of four prisons, men and women with over 2,000 beds. I did a little time at Angola. Camp J was a bad place. Very bad place.

Did short time duty at a couple smaller jails / prisons of 500 beds after retiring from the state.

Held Albert Woodfox, murdered a young cadet officer for no reason. Held the three Colombian assassins of Barry Seal. Many more high profile cases. 90 percent of mine were lifers plus. Louisiana life meant you got out when you died. Very few every beat that with parole.

I am too old to chase escapees, break up fights and cell entries. I am going to stay retired.

Enjoyed the conversation. Stay safe.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 5mo ago

Thanks for your service! I wasn’t a DOC officer, just an addiction professional. We were given volunteer status, but went in weekly to teach. This was Kansas. I also did Senate Bill 6, the 3rd and sub DUI program.

TL;DR: intensive probation didn’t prevent my DUI clients from re-offending. It just doesn’t work. Their failures were colossally bad. Many of my non-Senate bill clients did even worse crimes when they re-offended.

This was when I burned out on the addiction field and quit to go back to journalism.

Those were HUGE prisons where you were DW. That’s hard work! 🫡