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Patrick Swayze Classic <em>Road House</em> Used To Retrain Cops
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Lauren Evans
Published Feb 24, 2015
Modified Feb 24, 2015
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Lauren Evans
Published Feb 24, 2015
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Road House, just one notch on the weathered, manly leather belt that is Patrick Swayze's career, contains valuable nuggets of wisdom for adults of all vocations—bartenders, doctors, henchmen/women, car dealership owners, and, apparently, cops.
The NYPD has included a snippet of the film in its new $35 million police retraining program, because why drone on about conduct in a shitty PowerPoint when Patrick Swayze has already perfected the message?
In this analogy, New York City is the Double Deuce saloon; its drunken, mustachioed patrons the 8 million people who live here. Cops are the bouncers, and Swayze is...still just Swayze.
“If somebody gets in your face and calls you a cocksucker, I want you to be nice," Swayze instructs the incredulous group. "Ask him to walk. Be nice. If he won’t walk, walk him. But be nice. If you can’t walk him, one of the others will help you, and you’ll both be nice."
“I want you to remember that it’s a job. It’s nothing personal.”
These are wise words! So are these:
The Post has thoroughly delighted in slamming the NYPD's retraining efforts, employing its stable of unnamed sources to gripe first about how dull the training is before sneering at its effort to spice things up using a two-minute clip from a movie. It does make you wonder what sort of training regimen its reporters undergo before doing their jobs.
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