"The number of deaths reported among law enforcement officers in 2013 is the lowest it has been in fifty-three years.
The number of officers killed by gunfire last year was the lowest since 1887.
Every year, we are on a course for more like Jake."
What's going on here?
Uh, no, not your brother-in-law but your wife's brother-in-law. Stopped reading right there.
Police say their sharp shooter was aiming for Jake’s leg, over a distance of perhaps twenty yards.
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Police sharpshooters, once they get called to a scene and are given a “go”, are not shooting for legs.
They took his “big talk” seriously.
Sweet gentle guys who terrorize their wives and hold their own baby hostage, with weapons, are getting shot. This is a tragedy because we need more gentle giants who have absolutely no self-control and no regard for the people around them.
They are practicing at the range more maybe?
just on the face of it — according to the story :
Trigger happy cops that require federal gov’t intervention to protect the “citizens.”
There seems to be a bit of a problem with using the police as domestic counselors. Perhaps the numbers correlate somewhat with the percentage of the population that is taking psychotropic drugs.
I’ve read several incidents where a domestic violence situation turns up with one of the two involved dead...suicide by cop or cops getting itchy trigger fingers.
Either way...here’s my takeaway:
You have a family fight....don’t call the cops! You lose all control of the situation the second you do.
Two years ago this lady that lived near me called the cops on here belligerent teenager. He was blown away with a .308 to the chest when he lifted his phone (Yes the well trained sniper thought it was a gun).....
Never never never get the police involved in a family dispute unless it is truly indeed a matter of life or death, or grave bodily injury.
The police aren't interested in being sympathetic to a misunderstood person, they are interested in everyone doing what the police tell them to do, and that's all.
Give them an excuse to kill you and they will, and as you have seen, they will usually never suffer any consequences for their hasty judgement.
The biggest change I’ve seen with the police is that there was a time the citizen’s safety came before the police officer’s. Risk was a very definite part of the job and expected. Now the officer’s safety comes first. If in doubt shoot and ask questions later. That hasn’t been an improvement.
He was mentally ill, large and angry. I don’t blame a wife in this situation for calling the police, even though it may prove to be a dangerous decision. We might just as easily be reading a story about another woman killed by her husband.