Posted on 03/13/2005 6:31:58 AM PST by mhking
As I understand it, while he's being processed, a prisoner is supposed to always be under enough physical restraint (handcuffs, shackles, or both) that a Taser, Mace, or a baton will be sufficient to control them no matter what they attempt to do.
Finally a judge speaking the truth to power in Atlanta ...
If you are talking about security tapes of the parking complex - There is no need - I just saw an interview with the police commander and he admits "no, they didn't search the parking complex, they thought he had left it" -
Which again just mind boggles me - All day we saw hundreds of cops basically looking to "get on camera" instead of doing their jobs! - How the hell don't you search the very complex this man was last seen in!! - Who knows, there could have been more victims within this complex.
Police screw things up and then go on TV insisting on what a "great job they did" - It really makes you wonder about the whole judicial system when it is this quality of people (who will basically lie instead of being up front about a screw up) - These are the same people we are all trusting with evidence, etc -
Yet they will spin and lie as quickly as dropping a dime if they think it will cover their as$es -
I blame feminism and political correctness for throwing common sense out the window.
Finally, some sanity in the discussion.
No, you said the judge was responsible for his own death. That's what got you flamed.
Neil Boortz must be going wild- he's always talking about the way Atlanta is run.
If I heard Freeman say ONE more time how he'd only been on the job a couple of months I thought I'd have to buy a new tv. These men are grown-ups, it's time the citizens of Atlanta hold them to account.
No he is actually right. You do not go into close quarters with a weapon, the prisoner may be well capable of taking it away. (This guy was a martial arts expert as well as being in excellent shape and in his prime.)
(1) No weapons when transporting to the courtroom,
(2) not alone, but with backup officers, also not armed
(3) series of restraints never off
(4)physical capabilities of a GI
(5) In the courtroom, armed deputy at sufficient distance to draw his weapon before the prisoner can escape of endanger others.
As far as second guessing, bring it on. When Lockheed Martin employees screwed up and dropped a 10 million dollar satellite while picking it up, heads rolled. This should happen here as well.
Plain and simple rules of conduct, outlining the procedures that shall be adhered to by all persons, as pertaining to the transportation and handling of prisoners, needs to be developed and instituted.
No police officer, anywhere in this country arrests a simple, non-violent, drunken driver without handcuffing him/her, behind their back, prior to transporting.
...faulty security.
GEE, ya think? (directed at the article, not the poster)
This only makes common sense ... but unmentioned in this article is the fact that the law requires that the perp cannot be brought into the courtroom wearing handcuffs because this would not be fair to the perp. The law, obviously, is an ass.
No, we need to see the security tapes from the courthouse and holding area. Or is security so lax that they don't even have THAT much of a workable system?
So, the good people of Atlanta should wait 10 years or more until this POS is dead before they make any changes?
Oh, yeat, great idea. Let's make sure some more people get killed./sarcasm off.
Never cover up this kind of crap for any reason. these people are a joke. Leaving off restraints, one deputy( never mind she was a small female, one deputy is stupid even if the deputy was huge)armed, all of these are stupidity at its finest and I will agree with the guy who said the judge helped cause this and helped bring on his own death. The judge could have stood up to this kind of PC BS and demanded that prisoners be shackled (dangerous ones) when brought into the court room.
It all adds up to incompetence of the highest order and I haven't even started on how stupid they were after the prisoner escaped!
Wow, 20 posts go by before you pointed this out.
Now that's just crazy right there.
There are all kinds of reasons that Police Men were once called that -- and all weighed two-hundred pounds and were six-feet tall.
And this assinine bloody atrocity illustrates only one of them.
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