"I wassssss.....uuuuhhhhhhhh, Training my dog! Yeah, training my dog, that's the ticket!"
Posted on 07/08/2008 3:19:12 PM PDT by trumandogz
A group of mothers and kindergarten students at a South Austin park found the loaded gun of an Austin police officer who did not know for hours that his weapon was missing, officials said today.
Austin police Lt. Donald Baker said supervisors are reviewing how Officer Daniel Eveleth's Glock handgun might have fallen from his holster while he was at Slaughter Creek Metropolitan Park training a police dog at about 5 a.m. Monday.
Officials said they did not immediately know whether one of the children or a parent discovered the gun.
Officers responded to the park after one of the mothers called 911 and learned that the gun was registered to Eveleth, who has been an officer for about 11 years.
They returned the weapon to Eveleth's home and told him where it had been found, Baker said.
"He had no idea he was missing the weapon from his holster," Baker said. "It doesn't look like it was done in negligence."
Elizabeth Phillips, a mother who was at the park, said she arrived soon after officers showed up.
She said the gun appeared to have been on a slide, that officers were still standing around it and that about a dozen children were nearby.
"I was completely shocked," she said.
I think that he was meeting someone at the park for a romantic tyrst. A few years ago I would had thought of the female persuasion but this day and age it could have been a male.When he took off his equipment belt to get more comfortable, the gun came out of the holster. The training a police dog story I do not buy.
I heard about this yesterday. Just how can you MISS your weapon?
Some of the radio and television reports in the Austin area are saying the gun was found on the bottom (end) of the slide. I’m thinking that if you accidently drop you gun on a metal slide, A, you would hear it hit, and B it would not stay on the slide. So, the question becomes: why did he disarm and place his gun on the slide? What activity did he engage in that was so special that he forgot all about the gun?
Done? Negligence takes no effort.
I guess that depends upon the weight of the cop. Does this cop have weight issues? If he is hauling around 40 lbs of lard it would probably be harder to notice a 5 lb reduction in weight on the belt.
My guess that also. He was in the park at that time meeting someone and for whatever reason he had his pants down. Simply, use your imagination to determine what he may have been doing by the slide in a park at 5:00 in the morning.
I once worked with a woman in Austin who bragged to her female coworkers that she and other women in town had a fetish for cops and that they had some sort of network where they would give APD cops their phone numbers and would meet them whenever wherever to play the Bubba & Monica game.
"I wassssss.....uuuuhhhhhhhh, Training my dog! Yeah, training my dog, that's the ticket!"
You win! LOL! This liberal bastion in the middle of a red state is so often a source of embarassment to most of the rest of Texas.
Ping! See how much excitement we have in Austin—LOL!
Have you priced televisions lately?!?!?
The dumbest part is that they gave the cop his gun back. That idiot should never be allowed to carry a gun again. His “dog training” story does not pass the smell test.
Today on the local news the cop in question is blaming a new type of holster.
I am with you, he was doing something else in that part instead of working with his dog, I mean police dog.
Tha APD has more problems than a lost weapon.
Two Austin officers suspended 90 days
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo has suspended two officers for 90 days each and demoted one of them after he said they failed to heed warnings that their relationship was interfering with their job performances, according to disciplinary memos released Wednesday.
On more than one occasion, the documents said, the officers failed to respond to nearby calls so they could spend time together.
The memos said that supervisors told Cpl. Michelle Cross, who has been demoted to the officer rank, and officer Carlos Saldivar to stop spending excessive amounts of time together during work because of the perceptions and rumors it was causing on their downtown patrol shift.
“It was clearly understood by both officers that they were to cease spending so much time together during work hours unless it was a business necessity in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety,” the memos said.
The documents said the two continued the behavior and gave examples. For instance, they said, Saldivar at times would leave his patrol partner to spend time with Cross. They also reportedly spent as much as four to six hours together per shift drinking coffee or eating lunch.
Acevedo wrote in the memos that an investigation into Saldivar’s activities “revealed a pattern of failing to devote his time and attention to the business of the department.”
Acevedo also wrote that Cross repeatedly failed to properly supervise officers.
In another world , probably neither of them would have been hired in the first place, but if they had both would have been fired.
But we are living in the age where diversity, affirmative action, and political correctness counts instead of ability.
Therefore, since both appear , to me anyway, to be at least affirmative action hires I do not believe they have anything to worry about so far as staying on the payroll goes.
Diversity, affirmative action, and political correctiness will eventually destroy this Nation.
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