I've never been arrested, rarely drive more that 5 over. So how many things have you done under cover of the law that would have gotten me arrested if I did them?
Me thinks you protest too much, I really couldn't care less about you and your fellow officers, I treat them with respect like anyone else until such time that they prove they don't deserve respect. Hopefully, you were a good officer, but for you to be defending these actions doesn't sit well with me. I agree, one person is responsible for the inaccurate address info, but that does not in any way mean that the officer(s) who manhandled these elderly people are free from responsibility.
Myself, I would be dead because the first person thru the my door would be shot. I have a CCW so I'm not a criminal and I resent the attitude of us vs. them that is all too prevelant in todays police forces.
"manhandled these elderly people are free from responsibility"
Manhandled at 3am in a dark house. I am quite sure that once it was known they were elderly ( in the light after the chaos of entry ), they were treated a bit easier. No matter what you think not all officers are uncaring goons. I'll bet the lights were not on in the house so I challenge anyone here to make a snap judgement on the run in the dark about what person you cannot see anything about ( except a body shape ) gets put down on the floor or which ones get asked to "rise and shine".
I like to think I was good, but by some of the standards I see here I was a Gestapo drone.
"I resent the attitude of us vs. them that is all too prevelant in todays police forces."
That attitude is fostered places like this everytime a call is made condeming the whole of police officers. Throw enough grenades into the crowd instead of sharpshooting the bad ones, they all get kind of jumpy. I expect this kind of crap on the DU, but not here.