New details emerge in dog-shooting

Tennessean ^ | 1/14/03 | Leon Alligood

[Brian Mosely]

Tennessee Highway Patrol dispatchers appear to have exaggerated details of a cell-phone caller's report and, in doing so, played a key role in the Jan. 1 traffic stop during which a Cookeville police officer shot an innocent family's pet dog.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

BTTT for a placemarker

[DakotaGator]

One of the convenient places for law enforcement officers to hide is behind dispatchers.

[FreePaul]

...contrary to THP policy, talked on a Nextel wireless phone line.

How convienient for the officers. Now they can tell the story any way they want. I remember reading earlier that an officer followed the car for some time before making the stop. No mention of high speeds then. Maybe that's something else they talked about on Nextel.

[Oberon]

One of the convenient places for law enforcement officers to hide is behind dispatchers.

Conversely, if the dispatchers are partly responsible for this comedy of errors, they should share the blame.

[dtel]

BTTT
In serious CYA mode here.

[truenospinzone]

Everyone involved in this fiasco screwed up somewhere, and everyone involved deserves to lose the job they obviously aren't capable of doing. Just get rid of them all, and this ridiculous CYA crap will be moot.

[Kevin Curry]

Everyone involved in this fiasco screwed up somewhere

Including the Smoaks.

Bury the dog. Get on with life. case closed.

[Mo1]

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[PleaseNoMore]

Yeah, the Smoaks were wrong. They shouldn't have gone on a family vacation. Nope, that is just asking for trouble. Yeah, bury the dog. It's not like it was a beloved family pet or anything. What a jerk.

[NittanyLion]

Including the Smoaks.

Yep, it appears Mr. Smoak committed the egregious sin of...forgetting he left his wallot atop the car. So let's just equate that with dispatchers going outside procedure and cops shooting his dog, and forget the whole thing.

Incredible...

[from occupied ga]

Including the Smoaks.

I just don't see how they "screwed up" Please enlighten me as to what their error was.

[truenospinzone]

Please explain how the Smoaks were at all at fault here.

And while you're at it, please drop the condescending pretense that anyone here thinks the dead dog is the real story here, and not the incompotent 'roid jockeys that botched this from step one. I know misdirection is SOP for you, but just try a little intellectual honesty for once, just for s*&^ts and giggles.

[Centurion2000]

Including the Smoaks.

Bury the dog.

Other than leaving his wallet on top of the car please point out where they screwed up.

[thepitts]

Bury the dog. Get on with life. case closed.

You are one sad piece of work.

[Republic of Texas]

We're all dying to know, how did the vacationing family screw up?

[Capt.YankeeMike]

As usual, youre an ASS.

[wimpycat]

I beg to differ with you on this one. Unlike those on here who want to use this as an opportunity to vent their hatred against all things law enforcement, it looks to me like the dispatchers and the officers didn't follow proper procedures for handling a tip from a citizen with nothing to back it up. In other words it was a huge SNAFU.

What the hell did the Smoaks do wrong? I just don't see anything that they did was wrong.

[NittanyLion]

I just don't see how they "screwed up" Please enlighten me as to what their error was.

Saying both parties were at fault is as much an omission of police misconduct as you'll ever get from KC. He just can't bring himself to admit the police might be solely at fault - no matter what the facts bear out.

[from occupied ga]

There are certain freepers (who will remain nameless) who were just born too late to take part in the grand experiment

and are trying their best to make up for it.