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To: bigredkitty1

Precisely, and the children in this story will likely grow up with a dim view of officers.

Nicely done!

< / Sarc>

41 posted on 10/14/2011 4:06:22 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)

You own a scary BLACK doberman?

You OWN one?

That’s racist!

:-)

42 posted on 10/14/2011 4:15:17 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)

Let’s have another big round of applause for these upstanding servants of the state and the unions that we call cops.

43 posted on 10/14/2011 4:28:28 PM PDT by loungitude (The truth hurts.)

The dog was justifiably shot for a very serious reason- opportunity. Shooting dogs must be part of police academy training to take advantage of real life target practice which is judged more efficacious than static targets on a range and causes less of a hassle than shooting random citizens. The practice is so widespread as to seem ubiquitous and that leads me to the thought that it must be part of the training.

If the article is correct then the dog was shot because it was making noise, nothing more.

44 posted on 10/14/2011 5:30:55 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")

but the ratio of human trash to stand-up heroes is a lot worse than most people (even the cop haters) probably think.

The problem is that the ration is increasing and the guns are bigger and they often come at you in masked brigades.

45 posted on 10/14/2011 5:33:36 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")

If the dog had stayed indoors officer Friendly would have shot it indoors. Dogs are for real life situation target practice and it is all off budget except for the bullets.

46 posted on 10/14/2011 5:37:06 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")

To: cripplecreek

these stories seem to be of more interest to some FReepers than human officers giving their lives doing exactly what they’re paid to do.

Police officers who do what they are supposed to do are not dangerous to FReepers and their families. More and more police officers and departments are becoming dangerous to FReepers and their families and to everyone else. I have seen the attitude change radically among the police in my small city in 30 years. They used to enforce our laws and were part of the citizenry. Now they seem to feel that they are here to keep a hostile population under control. They feel that it is "us against them."

47 posted on 10/14/2011 5:44:47 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")

To: NormsRevenge

Little bitty dogs get shot, too. They are even better Live Situation Target Practice than Rottweilers.

48 posted on 10/14/2011 5:51:38 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")

They feel that it is "us against them.

Given the bulk of the postings it sounds like a self perpetuating cycle. I live in an extremely low crime area and the police are about as threatening as the paperboy.

49 posted on 10/14/2011 5:55:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)

...there are a lot of really honorable cops out there, but the ratio of human trash to stand-up heroes is a lot worse than most people (even the cop haters) probably think.

Why were those bad cops hired, or did the job turn good cops into bad cops?

50 posted on 10/14/2011 6:01:18 PM PDT by TChad

To: humblegunner

Overreactions and unnecessary escalations like this are responsible for a more negative perception of LEOs.

I grew up in a small town in Alabama with a positive perception of LEOs, though my friends and I used to joke that the only difference between the local motorcycle cops and motorcycle gang members was the uniform. Later on I learned that a first cousin, my age, had been a third generation KKK member and a deputy sheriff who gave blacks a very hard time, and I still didn't think badly of cops, for I already knew he was a thug.

I think back fondly on the cop who congratulated me on doing the right thing when he pulled me over while I was driving on the side of the road as drunk as a skunk and I gave him this (true) explanation.

My girl friend (who didn't drink or have a driver's license) and I had gone to Birmingham, in one of only 3 "wet" counties at the time, to a jazz club. I had too much to drink, so she drove, while I slept in the back seat. Part way home she ran out of gas, and pulled onto the side of the road. We were in a '58 bug and hadn't run out of gas, as there was a small reserve tank.

Rather than try to explain what to do (freepmail me if you don't know what that was and would like to know, and I'll respond), I told her to let me drive and I'd get it going, which is when the cop showed up. I told him that as soon as I got the car going I was going back to sleep and she would start driving again. He said I was doing the right thing, didn't ask to see her driver's licence, and drove off.

On another occasion I was driving straight through to Miami (about 800 miles), and pulled off the road occasionally to sleep for a few minutes. A cop knocked on the window during one such stop and asked what was going on. When I explained he said that was a good plan.

Cops in the south in those days knew their station and duties, at least in my experience, and treated people with respect, whites anyway.

Later I moved to California and begin to find out that not all cops are created equal. After living there a few years, within one few weeks period, I received enough BS moving violation tickets that I was within one ticket of losing my licence.

I'm now living in Canada, married to a Canadian who had a first cousin who was a Mountie who seemed like a good cop. Nowadays the Mounties seem just as incompetent and corrupt as cops in many other places. Recently I was charged with assault by local RCMP (well, there are no local cops. The closest are a couple of hours away) based on a lying complaint by our local Dump Diva, who phoned 911, but who withdrew her complaint on learning that I was hiring a lawyer.

We had had a disagreement at the local dump, and she had actually tried to kick me in the nuts. I didn't touch her; well, except my hip to her foot when she missed my nuts. They said they believed her, and wanted to proceed, though they didn't. Good job they hadn't checked whether I have guns, which I do, including handguns. They might have gone ballistic, though I completely obey the Canadian gun regulations.

Fuddle Duddle coppers.

51 posted on 10/14/2011 6:05:08 PM PDT by caveat emptor (Zippity Do Dah)

To: cripplecreek

One of them was released from probation because he didn’t pose a “foreseeable risk” to public safety.

Yes, I saw that too. BTW, I know a number of LEOs in the area, including the GH acting Chief. We are blessed to have such a fine group in West Michigan.

52 posted on 10/14/2011 7:37:27 PM PDT by laker_dad

You should be here for his weekly obligatory whippings.

When that's over, I force him to hail me as his Massa.

I'm so brutal.

53 posted on 10/14/2011 7:54:08 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

I watched something at a local club that totally blew my mind.

There were city cops all over the place when we pulled in and we’re friends with the manager of the place so we hung around outside with him to see what was happening.

They dragged a screaming, cussing, punching maniac out by the scruff of his neck.

He’d just assaulted a waitress.

His buddies from the hotel across the street came running over and after a short confab with the LEOs, they _let him go_.

Turns out he was a cop in town for a convention.

And they just let him go.

OTOH, I had a wonderful time with the K9 handler who was doing security duty for the club that night.

He was a great guy who really enjoyed ‘talking dogs’.

I don’t think he was overly happy about his ‘fellow officer’ walking free....but he knew the score and said nothing.

54 posted on 10/14/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

“but they are doing it to create a compliant populace.”

Shooting *my* dog is going to have the diametrically opposite effect.

I know I’ve often said here that I’d “kill or die” for them and that’s a fact.

Last month I jumped in between them and 3 rabid coons.

I -knew- what would come next and after capping the coons, I went and got the rabies shots.

Simple as that.

No “weighing the consequences” or even a second of hesitation.

55 posted on 10/14/2011 8:10:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

You have the temerity to take photos of your brutality?

Next you’ll post pictures of his beaten, torn down expression after his master has taken him down a peg.

Have you no decency? Do you feel no shame at your treatment of a dog of color?

:-)

56 posted on 10/14/2011 8:13:14 PM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)

That would be this.

Note the expression of utterly broken despair.

Sal "Dominance And Submission" Amander

57 posted on 10/14/2011 8:29:45 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

Where are my manners?!?

Here we are discussing D&S with whips and I forgot to ping you!

58 posted on 10/14/2011 8:31:55 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

Don’t apologize. Knowledge is power. I appreciate the insight.

59 posted on 10/14/2011 8:59:14 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)

This is becoming an epidemic.

60 posted on 10/14/2011 9:45:53 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))

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