nlanza
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Whitcomb would not speculate as to whether either officer would face discipline, but according to the Police Department’s policy manual, officers are required to inspect patrol vehicles before use.
Guess someone didn’t play Police Quest.
Radley Balko has probably the best take on the whole SWAT team overkill thing…
Officer safety is usually cited as the main justification for the mass proliferation of SWAT teams over the last 30 years. Police say forced entry, flash grenades, and other paramilitary tactics are the only way offers can protect themselves while serving warrants on dangerous people like suspected pot dealers, poker players, optometrists who wager on football games, frail 69-year-old men suspected of selling painkillers, and women suspected of committing fraud on their student loan applications—to give just a few examples.
But what happens when police need to apprehend a genuinely dangerous person? We see this over and over: They don’t always send the SWAT team. And when they do, like they did in Columbine, the SWAT team sometimes waits outside until the shooting is over. So this week we had Whitey Bulger. He’s a suspect in at least 19 murders. He had 20 guns in his home when police apprehended him. So how did they do it? Once again, they didn’t send a SWAT team barreling into his home. Instead, they lured him out with a phone call, then arrested him peacefully.
Perhaps if they thought he had some pot in the house, it might have gone down differently.
What the hell is this garbage?
Err, it’s a joke. Following up on the funny link I posted a few down.
My favorite part of the original article:
…good thing it was a Slog tipper—good citizens, all—who happened by and not, you know, a sociopath or an anarchist or a gun collector.
One in the same, haha!
That’s what gun collectors do… They look for guns to steal for their collections, just like shell collectors!
Really? You are going to call someone on a garbage post in this thread?
Probably the wrong thread but I can’t believe the FBI missed this one.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Wednesday that members of an anti-gay fundamentalist group participated in the bureau’s training of police officers and FBI agents — a move the bureau says it will take steps to remedy in the future.
The bureau extended the invitations to Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., for training this spring at two bureau facilities in Virginia: Quantico and Manassas.
http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-anti-gay-group-participated-training-223129521.html
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/family-sues-city-over-sons-arrest-1198555.html
DAYTON — A mother and her mentally challenged son are suing the city and two police officers, claiming they assaulted the boy after mistaking his speech impediment for disrespect.
The initial police incident report and a 22-page use-of-force report tell a different story of police officers struggling not only with the son, but his mother and a family friend.
So, they tased, pepper-sprayed, beat with a baton, tied up and jailed a retarded person for riding the wrong way on his bicycle and then replying to the cop’s order not to do that with a speech impediment. They also arrested the rest of the family, for trying to explain that he is handicapped and “delaying the arrest and causing an unsafe condition.”
Thank goodness police are willing to risk it all to defend us from the retarded.
One and the same. Sorry; I would control my pedantry with drugs if I knew what the right drugs were.
LA Sheriff’s department has stated it will no longer suspend cops who “have used excessive force, driven while intoxicated, falsely imprisoned people or committed other serious misconduct.” Now such acts will earn a very stern warning.
Similar to the way prison sentences are used to deter and punish criminals, this strategy assumes that the threat of punishment will keep officers from stepping out of line. Perez and Beck, however, do not believe this sort of discipline does much to dissuade misconduct. It is particularly ineffective, they said in interviews, in a department like the LAPD, where the union representing rank-and-file officers offers an insurance program that pays officers their salaries for days they are suspended.
Great. That’s just great.
That’s completely hilarious. Do private sector unions have insurance for uh, when you get suspended before getting fired?
Marcus
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Why what’s the problem? Did you know that I can get several days suspension if I get into a traffic accident on duty even if it was not my fault and there was no way I could prevent it? We can also take days off with out pay even if in the end the result is we did nothing wrong. Sure they pay us back for those days but for some people even a few days off can mean a hardship. Everyone I work with still gives a big shit if we do something that we have to take suspension days for because it can mean the end of your career.
Marcus
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I wouldn’t doubt they have the same thing.
rowe33
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Please tell me that an officer will be fired if caught driving drunk while on duty…that’s not one of these forgivable offenses, right?
Marcus
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On duty haha yeah people get terminated for that. I don’t know that anyone has done that in a long long time. I know of one guy that got caught drinking while he was telecommuting and he got terminated.
