Posted on 10/21/2014 1:26:01 PM PDT by dware
Citizen's arrests date back to medieval times. They are arrests made by a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official. Generally, citizens are encouraged to be mindful of unlawfulness and to take action when they see it.
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... but only after shooting his dog.
I saw this over the weekend online. Pretty funny. He’s lucky the Cop engaged him for as long as he did. It doesn’t say how he stopped him. I assume he flagged him down as if he needed help.
No, no...afraid I couldn't stoop that low.
The guy carries a .25? Geeze.
You know, if you shoot someone with a .25, and they find out about it, they’re going to be pee-o’d at you.
The Medford, OR Police Department cops never make it down a city block without violating at least one law.
I have never seen them drive legally.
This is much like Tacoma, WA and several other cities in which I have lived or visited.
Cops are just the most well armed gang in town, collecting revenue for the welfare state by jacking up average citizens attempting to legally go about their day.
When not shooting dogs and people running away.
It’s important to note that “police”, as such, did not exist at the founding of the United States. Sheriffs had existed since the mid-17th Century, and the laws were carried out by them and the local militia.
In 1789 the U.S. Marshals Service was established, followed by other federal services such as the U.S. Parks Police (1791), and U.S. Mint Police (1792). The first city police services were established in Philadelphia in 1751.
The U.S. Secret Service was founded in 1865 and was for some time the main investigative body for the federal government.
But this means that many of the rules that still exist for the police have evolved from Common Law origins, as well as the hierarchy under which they operate. For example, Sheriffs being superior to local police.
Thus, local police can still be seen in some lights as a “uniformed” militia. However, that does not mean that they are the exclusive militia.
Importantly, it is a big jump in authority from a local police department to a Sheriff’s office. In a manner of speaking, as the POTUS is chief executive for the nation, and state governors are chief executives for their states, Sheriffs are the chief executive of their counties.
It is vital to be aware of this relationship as well, as a Sheriff can deputize the adult citizens of his county, and as such, they would be on a legal par with local police.
In effect, the citizenry are the enforcers of the law, and police are just a convenience. They act as a day and night watch, they collect evidence of crimes, and they doggedly pursue criminals. But to stop crime and uphold the law, they are very dependent on the citizenry.
“Sheriffs are the chief executive of their counties.”
It should also be noted that the US courts have recognized the sheriff office as a sovereign. That means that the federal government cannot draft a sheriff to carry out the enforcement of federal laws. Our boy Clinton tried that and was shot down by the court. In addition, county governments, along with Indian tribes, are also considered sovereigns.
I know a Federal LEO who was driving an unmarked car while searching for a guy. A local small town cop decided he wanted to ask him what he was doing so he pulled him over.
He asked for his identification and the officer showed it to him. The cop knew his stop was illegal but the officer just let it go. It did scare the guy tho.
warmongering cops... giving the choice between war fighting for a right or the cattle car submission to a search.
James Bond carried a .25 Baretta until Dr. No although I don’t recall him killing anyone with it :-)
Major Boothroyd was a real person. He wrote a letter to Ian Fleming telling him how much he enjoyed James Bond but telling him that a real agent would not use a .25.
He and Fleming became friends and when asked what type of gun a real secret agent might carry, he told him a Walther PPK in 7.65 knowing it was not really powerful but in fact was a common choice.
Major Boothroyd was embarrassed when Fleming described the .32 as hitting like a brick through a plate glass window.
In Dr. No, Fleming used his real name and that character later was stretched to be “Q”.
Looking at his wiki page seems he designed the fitz special or copied it. Got to go do the math and see who was first Fitz or Boothroyd..... Interesting folks
I grew up in Medford, Or. When I was a young teenager in the 60’s I was sitting on my bike at a stop light in downtown Medford.
The light changed to green in my direction just as a cop was coming down Centrral. He looked up and saw the red light and he had plenty of room to stop, but he braked hard at the last minute coming to a near stop in the middle of the intersection. He then flipped on his siren and lights, sped up through the intersection and then turned them off.
I can remember this, why can’t I remember what I had for breakfast?
My guess is he copied it or at least got the idea from Fitz. Was it Fitzhugh or Fitzgerald? I remember he held the record for many years for speed shooting a revolver.
Just a year or so back I saw a video of Jerry Miculek shooting a revolver and it was just plain unbelievable. He literally would just throw a reload of six revolver cartridges into the cylinder through the air.
Years ago a friend of mine was working undercover with the organized crime task force. He was visiting us and parked his car with out of state tags in front of our neighbor’s house. Ends up the neighbor was a jealous LEO’s girlfriend and the LEO ran my friends tags to find out whose car it was.
Even though it was a private car, my friends tags were flagged so that anyone running his tags were told that the system was not working at that moment and the DMV needed to take the requester’s information to call them back. The DMV immediately called my friend who confronted the LEO and wanted to know why he was running his tags! End of story real quick!
Oh yeah ...... those men were / are awesome . Did ya see the new way to scare the neighbors ?
http://www.xproducts.com/ar-15-soda-can-launcher-accessories-launcher.
Yesterday or maybe the day before a performer named Dustin Lynch was playing at the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival. That is near Niceville, Florida and not far from me.
For some reason he sprayed the front row with champagne, I guess as part of his act. Anyway one of the rednecks didn’t appreciate it and threw a beer can at him. He continued the show but later had to have several stitches. Martina McBride also performed but I don’t think she had any problems.
Who needs a beer can launcher when you can throw like that?
Dustin could’a whipped out his can launcher and got surgical with a can of 78 vintage billy beer on that goober ....LOL !!!
.... niceville ...... yeah I’ve been thru there. Eglin AFB just down the street !!
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