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Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the country’s largest police union, imagined the police busting a drug deal with two suspects, one who gets cuffed and another who gets away.
The arresting officers “want to get into that phone and see if they can get the other guy,” he said in an interview. “Or gang situations. They communicate almost exclusively by phone. There’s more at stake here than due process. It’s public safety.”
It's been posted here before and it's worth re-posting:
More Mayberry, Less Fallujah.
You guys have a skewed view of what policing used to be, most likely informed by nostalgia of being 8 years old.
Its not only wrong what they did but it was obviously done by untrained idiots. How could a guy, probably sleeping, wake up determine what is happening get gun and shoot before the SWAT team could control the situation. This boggles the mind
You guys have a skewed view of what policing used to be, most likely informed by nostalgia of being 8 years old.
The Mayberry cops used to play temple blocks on people's heads with a billy club. They merely used to do it wearing a double breasted police uniform coat with assurance that everyone would take their licks and no one would say shit.
It was as wrong then as this shit is now...
My point was all that takes time. Must have been swat's first missionAll he had to do was wake up, get scared, and do what anyone else would (should) do. Protect him/her-self.
You're giving LEO too much credit.
All he had to do was wake up, get scared, and do what anyone else would (should) do. Protect him/her-self.
You're giving LEO too much credit.
full on tanks and air support
You guys have a skewed view of what policing used to be, most likely informed by nostalgia of being 8 years old.
The Mayberry cops used to play temple blocks on people's heads with a billy club. They merely used to do it wearing a double breasted police uniform coat with assurance that everyone would take their licks and no one would say shit.
There’s more at stake here than due process.
Made it to page 3 so it may have been said already.
They should really stick to doors and not windows. It's a lot easier and faster to get 4-5 guys through a door in full gear that one guy through a window. And they can shoot while going in the door, pretty hard to shoot while you're tucking and rolling through a window. Did they think he was sitting on the sofa with a shotgun staring at the door?
There was a time when people trusted cops. Maybe not all people, maybe not all cops, but in general, cops were the "good guys"
Now even my mother doesn't trust cops. I don't know *anyone* who trusts cops (as a group, not individually).
Sure, it wasn't perfect in Mayberry (the "good ol' days", whatever) but it sure seems a lot worse now.
You guys have a skewed view of what policing used to be, most likely informed by nostalgia of being 8 years old.
The Mayberry cops used to play temple blocks on people's heads with a billy club. They merely used to do it wearing a double breasted police uniform coat with assurance that everyone would take their licks and no one would say shit.
if my father's employer intentionally put him in a situation that used tactics that would put his life in jeopardy I would want the employer to be held responsible even while i agree he won the ultimate stupid price for a stupid game
I understand the need to use SWAT or no knock raid for serious, dangerous people but the cops get a toy and they want to use it. They use their no knocks and SWAT for minor crimes or even allegations and that is absurd.
3 Million Dollar Bond! Bail is supposed to be used as a method to a sure ones presence in court for the proceedings not as punishment.
So much for Texas being a "Free State" NOT!!
full on tanks and air support
Believe me it's coming.
Its not only wrong what they did but it was obviously done by untrained idiots. How could a guy, probably sleeping, wake up determine what is happening get gun and shoot before the SWAT team could control the situation. This boggles the mind