How about they go after the gang bangers.
Cops are NOT your friend ping!
I was friends with the former police officer who was the chief of Warner Bros. security for some time. He echoed the same numskull idea that somehow American who are law abiding, exercising their God given rights to defend themselves, will make us all in more danger. Stupid and not factual.
Will the cop ranks be thinned by cops going to jail for murder?
If not, we have a two tiered system. Masters and slaves.
sounds like he just volunteered himself up for Reckless Homaside charges
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Conversely, if a concealed carrier sees a cop with a gun in his hand the concealed carrier had better shoot first to save his life. Way to go, jackass! He just gave every criminal that does shoot first a nice defense in court: “Well, judge, I had to shoot first because Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy said cops will fire on me regardless.”
The chief made these comments several months ago. Why are they suddenly news again?
FURTHER TO “Chicago top cop warns that his officers will shoot concealed carriers”
My sister — who is married to a retired cop — wrote this to me re. the comment by the Chicago Police Chief that his officers will shoot citizens who carry concealed.
“Here’s a sentence that I pulled out of one of the quotes. ‘So I’ll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand, the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get the shot to return fire’.
I take that to mean that the firearm is being pointed AT the officer and if I had my gun out for some reason, and I was approached by a cop, I would merely hang it down at my side with the barrel pointed at the sidewalk, NOT point it at the cop. I wonder IF that’s the point the Sheriff left out of his quote?”
MY RESPONSE:
I had the same thought. Any concealed carry permit holder stupid enough to STILL have his weapon in his hand at the scene when the uniforms arrive is not smart enough to carry a gun. He should have it BACK in the holster until the cops ask him to relinquish it for the inevitable ballistics test part of any investigation of the incident.
A more nettlesome problem would be if the officers were plain clothes types who come upon the scene and fail to PROPERLY and PROMPTLY identify themselves to the CCW citizen who MIGHT misidentify them as additional perpetrators. THAT could be very dangerous or deadly for the citizen — especially in light of this IDIOT CHIEF’S MEMO TO HIS OFFICERS. It’s more than likely that some good Chicago citizens will die needlessly at the hands of some of the overzealous cops that inhabit ALL police departments (aka “cowboys”) and the cowboys will receive medals for taking another CCW permit holder off the street.
There’s probably one more element in play here: Policing is a JOB. When the crime rate drops, so does the need for cops. Research proves that as CCW permit holder numbers grow (i.e., more ARMED CITIZENS!), the criminals go where they will be less likely to encounter an armed victim and the crime/murder rate plummets. Interviews of prison inmates has disclosed that armed victims worry them vastly more than the cops.
The high murder/crime rate in Chicago — where legal carry by decent citizens is discouraged or illegal — is a form of JOB SECURITY for the cops there. Somebody has to show up after the gun smoke has cleared to draw the chalk outline of the victim’s body, take some photos and perhaps help the ME’s guy load the corpse.
That’d be the cops!
Dick
Please note that this idiot, CPD Supt Garry McCarthy McCompStat, McNitwit, McStreetlights, McDrunk, McJersey, is NOT 'The Police', and he does NOT speak for CPD Coppers -- They hate his guts. The drunken maggot is nothing but a left-wing, gun-grabbing, Politician from New York City, via Newark NJ & NYPD, who wears the uniform of the CPD(1).
There's horror stories of what McJackass did while in the NYPD. Involving things like him drunk & driving, nights, shooting his weapon at streetlights; ergo: 'McStreetlights', and fighting with NYPD Cops while drunk (his wife is another drunken 'winner'). If McNiwit didn't leave the NYPD when he did he would have been booted out on his ass. He wound up at the Newark PD through Dem political connections (Cory Booker).
As such do not believe any of this sh.it. When you get that CCW permit and if stopped for a Traffic, just, act like the normal person you, per the training, and common fricken sense -- no reaching for your waistband, duh. Chicago Cops are not going to shoot you dead for no reason. As a group Chicago Coppers are more conservative & Pro-2A than compared to the general population. Natch there's a few 'hair gel cop'(2) exceptions.
an aside: this is really old news. McF-Up said this back in January.
Don't understand why it's being brought up again, nine months later?
(1) Rahm 'Tiny Dancer' Emanuel only hired McStupid because he's a fellow gun grabber, not because he was a successful LEO anywhere he's been. Mayor 9.5 found McCompStat through his gay buddy, Cory Booker, via the 'gay network' -- Yep, Rahm is 'flaming' too, really-really 'Flaming'.
(2) That's what the old timers & adult cops call the young bucks who still *may* buy the White-Shirt (boss) BS or have criminal justice degrees (Kollege Edumakation).