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>>If you don't believe that there are a lot of little old ladies with a loaded 12-gauge sitting right inside the front door, you haven't been around much. Letting procedure slip because someone doesn't fit the stereotype of a dangerous individual is how cops get killed.

Did you just graduate from the academy?

I didn't just graduate from anything. I've just known several LOLs (little old ladies) with shotguns by the door. Some were out in the country and felt alone and isolated. Some were in homes in declining neighborhoods, but refused to leave.

I know at leas one woman in her '80s who walked out on the porch in her house coat and pointed a double-barrel to chase the crack dealers from her lawn. They moved down the block.

It's not always by the book, and there is that little thing called discretion.

Yeah, ain't that fun? I don't know what you do for a living, but I'm guessing that whatever it is, it doesn't involve people on a national Web forum opining that if they disagree with your exercise of discretion you should have been shot to death.

Clearly there was no common sense discretion used here.

That is not at all clear to me. If you consider it a matter of "common sense" that old folks are no threat, I hope that you're not a cop; and if you are, I hope you're never proven wrong.

And I base this on the officer subsequently being suspended from duty.

Then you're basing it on nothing.

Suspension from duty is a matter of routine when there's a pending investigation. That has no bearing on the strength or the evidence or the outcome of the investigation.

Clearly there was no common sense discretion used here.

That is not at all clear to me.

I'm not overly surprised by that.

If you consider it a matter of "common sense" that old folks are no threat, I hope that you're not a cop; and if you are, I hope you're never proven wrong.

Here you go my friend.

"But she was let go when police realised there were "other ways" of finding out her identity without taking her to jail, a police spokesman said." Even the officers own department is obviously embarrassed by this incident. Of course no doubt you'll dispute this too.

You see if you'd read the article, you'd know the local police department already had previous contact with the woman. In addition, it should be clear to any police officer that obtaining the name of a home owner is not a difficult task.

As I said earlier, there seems there was no common sense discretion used in this incident.

Unfortunately, it's incidents like this that really make those in law enforcement look bad.