The criticism as to “wrong number” by so many posters isn’t always as reasonable as it sounds. Back when streets were laid out on a grid, it would have been, but that just isn’t true today. Streets wind around, and odd/even numbering, and for that matter what street you are on changes unpredictably. This neighborhood is one of that type.
However, in this case I looked the house up on Street View. The mailbox has a number, and the curb is numbered at both the sidewalk and the driveway. It’s actually an unusually well-marked nehghborhood. It shouldn’t have been terribly difficult for them to figure out which house was which.
There are no streetlights in the area, and the garage in question is entered from the back of the home. IOW, the driveway wraps around the house, so the cops were in his backyard when they shot him.
“isn’t always as reasonable as it sounds.”
Their jobs are to be exact. For reasons of life and death. I don’t care if streets wind or not. It’s their job - and others’ lives - for them to know.
It is always a reasonable criticism.
The cops are paid to do a job. Part of that job is knowing the neighborhood or beat that they’re patrolling. If they don’t, then maybe they should quit hanging out at the local coffee and donut shack and start doing their job.
In this case, yet again, the cops instigated the entire incident. There was no report of anything that needed their “assistance” at the address where they responded, so the homeowner was on firm legal ground for investigating what was going on. The cops were there without a call or warrant, so they are no better than common trespassers.
The long term solution to this is to simply dispense with more and more cops. They’re not necessary. Crime has been falling for more than 15 years nation-wide, and in better neighborhoods especially. We could eliminate all SWAT teams for starters, because they’re almost never used for what they claimed they would do. Then we can start on the rest of these parasites on the taxpayers’ wallets.