Posted on 11/29/2014 9:50:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Liberals are saying and suggesting things that would be a severe liability to your career as a police officer.
More along the lines of suicide. If you try to tackle a guy with a gun, unlike the movies, doing so is likely deadly to you.
When seconds count, “backup” is minutes away.
I'm not a fan of the article, and I'm quite glad that the Gentle Giant will never attack another innocent shopkeeper, but the author may be making a rare accurate point. If more than 2/3 of patrols are cops working in pairs, then the 1/3 killed while working alone would indicate that patrolling alone is more dangerous, which makes sense. [As an exaggerated hypothetical, imagine that 1/100 patrol alone and 1/3 of those killed are working alone - clearly that would support the author's point.]
Since Ferguson probably can’t budget the way LA does, I agree with their decision to have officers patrol alone and cover more ground in general. A dead thug is a very small price to pay for a safe community at a reasonable cost.
Note: I’d say the same thing about a white thug. My first thug encounter was with white union thugs, and I would have been thrilled if a concerned cop/citizen had shot both of them dead. Actually, I still hate union thugs, and I would be pleased even today to hear how those thugs died if we’re lucky enough to be rid of them.
If I have 3000 cops killed in a given time period, and 2000 of them were killed while with a partner, that doesn’t support the notion that patrolling with a partner is safer. Now, if the author got into how many cops we’re talking about overall who patrol alone versus patrol with a partner, now those numbers can start to mean something. As it is, his own point is defeated by citing the statistic in a relatively misleading way.
Dragnet, Adam-12, Car 54, The Lone Ranger and numerous Police Story episodes say it’s better to have a partner. I get all my inside information from TV.
If you can’t trust television—who can you trust?
Seconding guessing, I wasn’t in Wilson’s place but if I had been, a few shots.. he wouldn’t stop..oh well..I don’t want to feel any pain and abuse from any thug or gangbanger... or not..from anyone...
OK, here is another FReeper attacking you for continuing to be a complete moron in abject defiance of the facts. This became a deadly situation when Michael Brown attacked Wilson and went for his gun. Brown made his choices and it led to his death. END OF DISCUSSION. Wilson did nothing wrong here.
So it proved in this case. Thing was, he expected “backup” to be practically right behind him because they had been dispatched before he called for help. ‘Course it didn’t help much that his call for backup wasn’t listened for on the frequency he sent it on. He didn’t know he was on the wrong channel ’til later.
Are you even paying attention? This went down in seconds, in a transition from Wilson confronting two idiots walking down the middle of the street to Brown taking the fight to Wilson, in his own patrol car. Sheez, you just keep pulling this crap out of your arse. You are truly pathetic in your failing, flailing efforts to impose your pre-suppositions on the evidence that has come out about this case.
Hey, big talking woman, let's put you in the ring with another woman who is your height and has 90 pounds on you.
oh who is ignoring the facts now? There was no “blown out eye socket”, the policeman had virtually no injuries.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nancy-grace-goes-off-on-darren-wilson-it-doesnt-add-up/
It ain’t just me dude. Nancy Grace has a significant issue with Wilson’s story.
Jim Bowie would never steer you wrong...unless you wanted to buy some land.
Regarding Wilson’s facial injuries, you need a refresher.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3195376/posts
You are behind the times, read the medical records released by the prosecutor, the dude had some redness to the jaw, that is about the size of it. Quit believing fairy tales.
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