No justice, no peace!
Posted on 04/30/2015 8:18:30 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
A police officer investigating a report of a burglary in northern New Jersey went to the wrong address and killed a dog that lunged at him.
Wyckoff police received a report of a possible break-in at 621 Lawlins Road on Wednesday.
Police Chief Benjamin Fox tells The Record ( http://bit.ly/1bYaZVi ) newspaper that Officer Kyle Ferreira went to 622 Lawlins by mistake.
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If not for being at the wrong place, his ankle would not have gotten nibbled.
Due diligence and simply checking where he was supposed to go would have prevented that.
No justice, no peace!
The cop clearly messed up. He was supposed to kill the dog at the correct address...
LOL
Of course. My daughter was a cop. She's also way too smart & attentive to detail to make such an error as going to the wrong address on the wrong side of the street.
We are also thankful that she decided not to make a career of LE. Property appraisal is so much less stressful to a parent. /smile
What justification is there for a cop to stand there and let himself get shredded by dogs?
Well thank goodness we always have the cops word for justification! We all know that no cop ever overreacts or lies to cover his a$$. And no I don't demonize every police officer........but I don't defend all their actions either.
My experience as well. They have an undeserved reputation caused by ignorant a/d/or uncaring owners. And I understand there are exceptions with most animals including peeps.
Goodness sakes! Really? That’s a 0-60 exaggeration at warp speed.
I’d like to see the pitties rip the intruder’s throat out, no matter what the thug was wearing.
Point well taken. Different standards for different folks.
Since the cop can legally shoot people & the bondsman can’t, logic would dictate that the cop be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
I can’t fault the dog. Let’s try to answer this one. I was walking home from the bar, at least partially intoxicated, break into the wrong house, the dog bites me, I pull out a gun and shoot him. Would I be in trouble? Is a drunken fool held to a higher standard of common sense than an on-duty policeman, then?
Don't be ridiculous.
The cops were in the wrong. Wrong house.
However, once the dog had the cop by the ankle there was only one obvious outcome.
It is wrong that an innocent dog was killed. In most of these cases the dog that gets shot isn't even attacking. Those cases bother me more than this one where the dog did attack. Plus, it wasn't a screwed up drug bust, it was a reported home invasion.
However, none of that negates the fact that police officers are human beings and have people who care about them and want them to come home safe. It's true just as it's true that your family wants the same.
True. But if the dog was biting through your ankle and you were licensed to carry a gun, (even though you had just made a mistake), would you shoot the dog to save your leg or life ?
Your point seems to be that the officer was in the ‘wrong’.
Of course.
This incident should not have happened... but it did.
Once it did, the officer had to shoot the dog in self defense. I find this much different than the cases where the cops shoot the dog out of spite, or before they break in.
He had no other choice. Now he has to (or should have to) deal with the consequences of his mistake.
Gawd, that is not what I am saying.
The issue I was discussing was that the cop had to shoot the dog after it attacked him , even though it was the cop’s mistake that caused it.
Had he shot the dog for a different reason, I would be more concerned.
Cops are human, and like everyone else, they aren’t perfect. How many times, during a home break in call, have they gone to the wrong address ?
He didn't say that. Why are you saying he did?
That is an assumption and not a fact.
For all you know, the dispatcher could have gotten it wrong, or it was garbled during radio transmission. I was recently listening to the Baltimore police scanner, and I'm surprised that this doesn't happen more often. Over and over I heard requests to 'repeat information'. Even if you are correct, there is no evidence in the article stating that. The police chief says they went to the wrong address. He doesn't state how that happened.
What you are saying isn’t true, reread message 15.
You keep ignoring the fact that he said => 'when there is no justification'.
That is not the same as saying => 'there is no justification'.
Do you see the difference?
The only thing clear is that you are misrepresenting the earlier conversation completely and adding nothing to the discussion.
But hey we all have our off days.
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