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As a Florida native and LEO at the time...let me give you some insight to your "comments"....

"MARCH 3, 1998: Haines City Officer Christopher Todd Horner is shot dead while investigating a car parked at a cemetery."

He failed to follow procedure and call in back up. Period. He was a rookie and paid the price. Unless you've read the internals no comment or follow up from you is necessary.

" MARCH 8, 1997: Winter Haven Officer Johnnie Patterson Jr. is shot dead while pursuing the driver of a car he was trying to pull over during a routine traffic stop."

This was not "routine". The car was reported "hot". The pursuit was a high speed pursuit. Once again it was a case where a friend of mine could have backed off and called in backup but decided to do too much and "go for the gloyr".

You're not being realistic. The current generation vs. my generation (45+) of LEO's want's to be on COPS or the local news. Most of my generation is very worried. This new generation is of the roid-shoot first grouping. Unless you are a LEO who knows what's going on, I'd suggest sliding back from your commentary. What happened in Cookeville, TN is an example of the idiocy of the JBT LEO's and pissing off the older guys. If you don't know that, then you belong on DU with the rest of the fools.

Officer Johnny R. Martinez and his partner Officer James Szabo were clearing debris obstructing the San Bernardino Freeway in East Los Angeles when a vehicle pulled alongside the two officers and the three occupants opened fire at point blank range. Martinez, 33, was fatally wounded and died the next day

And if I am not mistaken, this shooting was not in East LA but on the 10 fwy in the Pomona area, the shooters had just commited armed robbery and were using the fwy as a getaway. Traffic had slowed through the area as two CHP officers had no idea what was going on and were clearing debris from an accident that had occurred, when the perps reached the area of the CHPs on the freeway, they thought is was a road block for them, so they opened fire on the unsuspecting CHPs....