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No need to force a call into "shots fired"

You're absolutely right. Those banks had best get that "free cash home delivery" website up and running soon. No more robberies; problem solved! No more nasty guns and people getting hurt and all that.

In fact, why arrest and prosecute robbers at all? ...or muggers? ...or home-invasion burglars? ...or car-jackers? I mean, they all just try to get away, then they hurt people and stuff. Why have police at all? All they do is stress people out and make them violent.

78 posted on 04/26/2005 1:57:45 PM PDT by TChris (Just once, we need an elected official to stand up to a clearly incorrect ruling by a court. - Ann C)

I said nor implied any of the inferences you put to keyboard. Good law enforcement takes patience and a stone cold calm. Of course criminals should be arrested! They should be arrested at a time and place of the choosing of professional police, not neccessarily when all the testosterone, adrenaline, and mayhem is playing a signifigant role on all comers to the ball.

82 posted on 04/26/2005 2:10:58 PM PDT by blackdog (British cars, airplanes, furniture, and women.......Only the classics will do!)

Hmmmm.....Exactly how do you catch a mugger, car-jacker, or home burglar in the act? You don't. You respond to the reported crime as a professional, fill out the reports, interview the victim and witnesses, and go make a plan to get who did it, on your terms and on your timeframe, in a manner that will ensure a good prosecution and conviction.

That is how safe, effective policework is done despite the television or five minute speeches from politicians.

85 posted on 04/26/2005 2:16:23 PM PDT by blackdog (British cars, airplanes, furniture, and women.......Only the classics will do!)