Dorner Manhunt Reveals Police Contempt for Public Safety

Reason ^ | February 15, 2013 | Steven Greenhut

[driftdiver]

Make sure you lace your boots up nice and tight before taking on the big boys there sport.

[null and void]

*shrug* That does look like what you were saying. Seems to me I'm not the only one who reads what you post and draws the same conclusion - you think it was A-OK to blaze away in the dark.

Did you ever think that if multiple people read you the same way that the problem might, just might, not be the rest of the world? Do you ever think, or just emote?

And you're telling me to keep up?

I'm way ahead of you.

[driftdiver]

He didn’t arrest the hungry man, he shot him. Because the man wouldn’t step away from the buffet table.

[Huskerfan44]

Or concoct story later.

[Alaska Wolf]

you think

Obviously I do. You emote, drama queen.

[Alaska Wolf]

OMG, you’re one of the “big boys”, drama queen? You’ve already been squashed and I wear Russell boots without laces.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Thanks for the ping driftdiver!

I saw this thread earlier just after it was posted and thought I’d check in later to read the posts.

LOL, turned out just like I figured it would!

[Oztrich Boy]

I had a short conversation with an LAPD detective about the shooting in Torrance. What he told me:
Yada yada
Yada yada
The pickup was moving with its lights off.
Yada yada
Yada yada

The media has not mentioned nor this piece at “Reason.”

The cop lied to you. Lights were on

[null and void]

Obviously? It doesn’t seem to be obvious to others on this thread.

Some of us see you throwing hissyfits and emoting.

Who? Wellllll, I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

The thinking ones will be able to figure it out for themselves.

Good luck with that...

[Alaska Wolf]

Some of us see you throwing hissyfits and emoting.

Your fantasizing is amusing and entertaining.

[Oztrich Boy]

Lights off are probable cause?

Most of the time the lights were on. The driver said she made a practice of turning them off momentarily whenever the light was going to hit the window of a residence.

[null and void]

Lights off, lights on. It was dark. The cops were skeerd of trucks. That makes it OK.

[ThomasThomas]

The friend I know in the LAPD said that if nothing else their career is over.

[Politicalmom]

Oh, PLEASE!! Let’s hear the excuse for the other truck, which was stopped, let go, moved a short distance, and then was rammed AND shot up.

[Carry_Okie]

But the recently concluded manhunt for former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner, accused of murdering four people after releasing a manifesto decrying his 2008 firing from the force, suggests that concern about the public’s actual safety sometimes is fairly low on the list of police priorities.

They can talk "protect and serve" all they want, but the reality is that they train for "officer safety" above all else, including public safety.

That's what we get with unionized police.

[saleman]

As the women’s attorney told the Los Angeles Times: “The problem with the situation is it looked like the police had the goal of administering street justice and in so doing, didn't take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women don't look like a large black man.” This could be written off as a sad fluke, except that 25 minutes later different officers opened fire on a different truck—once again getting key details wrong. Can’t officers at least check the license plate, and issue a warning, before opening fire?

Damn Cop Hater!!!! I say shoot’em all and let God sort’em out!! What are you! Some kinda Libertarian nut??? /s

[null and void]

Perhaps, but that’s not the way I’d bet.

[generally]

Excellent questions. I’d like some public answers.

Some say that the difference between a cop and a criminal is sometimes just the uniform. I’m not quite that cynical. I know some good officers and have had some family members who were cops. But there seem to be more and more incidents these days involving cops who are out of line.

[Shimmer1]

You’ve been on FR since ‘03 and haven’t learned better manners yet? Are you just on here to be rude to other FReepers?

[Kevmo]

In before the

“jackbootlicking copsuckers”

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