8/16/17 An EDP jumps on TL21 rig while they're responding.

[guitarman314]

  Just saw a notification at 6:50pm that an EDP jumped on TL21's rig  at 8th Ave. & 42nd St. while they were responding to a call

 

[raybrag]

Pardon my ignorance . . . what's an EDP (to me, it has always been Electronic Data Processing . . . and I can't imagine that jumping on a tower ladder)? 

 

[jmag228]

EDP= Emotionally Disturbed Person ;Fairly common law enforcement terminology

 

[guitarman314]

  EDP was taken into custody by NYPD.

 

[manhattan]

  EDP was taken into custody by NYPD.

And just because the guy mistook the rig for an Uber.  Learn from this, you non-New Yorkers:  Nobody gets sympathy in this town.  The guy did get a free ride but that's beside the point.

 

[EdMc]

An EDP usually becomes an EC (Emergency Committal)

 

[tem217]

the nypd in the late 70s replaced the term "psycho" with EDP..emotionaly disturbed person.

 

[raybrag]

Thanks, gents.