^^^Agree^^^ That's some pretty shoddy police work. So calling 911 gets you shot??

Years ago I was renting a house in Bellevue. My roommate woke me up saying someone was trying to break in. I grabbed my gun and dialed 911.

"911 what's your emergency?"

"My roommate just woke me up saying someone was trying to break in."

"What's your location?"

[I gave location]

"Ok. Are you armed?"

"Yes."

"Ok. Please stay on the line." After about three minutes. "Sir, are you still on the line?"

"Yes."

"Are you turning all of the lights off in your home."

"My roommate is yes."

"Ok. Please holster your weapon and be advised that a K-9 unit is approaching your house and they will be followed by a patrol car."

"Ok. I see them now."

"Ok. Please stay on the line and indoors."

"Ok"

About a ten minute pause as all hell has broken out now with helicopters and half of BPD.

Dispatcher, "Sir are you still on the line."

"Yes."

"Ok." [pause] "is your weapon still put away?"

"Yes."

"Ok." Please be advised we have two uniforms approaching your front door now."

"Ok, I'm hanging up now."

That was like in '90 or '91. If they could be competent then you'd think they'd be able to pull it off now but noooooo! Of course I'm white though.

BTW the perp was an armed murderer who had slipped away from persuit until my call!! The dog cornered him a few houses behind mine and even though he was armed the cops were able to disarm him without shooting him dead. Not that I would of cared but kudos to BPD for making sure they protected the home owner and the cops at the same time.

I don't think things have all of a sudden gotten worse...I think that there has always been a small, but incompetent part of the overall police force.

Those incompetent fools include those who think drawing their gun substitutes for doing actual police work.

Now that every single person in the world has a camera and video camera on their phone those clowns are caught redhanded being dipshits on a daily basis.

Everywhere that they have put bodycams on cops the public's opinion of their local police force has gone up, police brutality claims have gone down, and actual police work has been increased.

It's a no brainer...and speaking of no-brainer, how is it that even when cops have a dashcam, and they know they have a dashcam, the dumbest and worst amongst them act like total dipshits right in front of it?

How those guys ever made it thru the Academy is a fuckin wonder.

Why is it such a big deal now, when I think the overall and very low percentage of shitttty cops acting like dipshits hasn't changed?

Well, the aforementioned cameras play a big part...they can't lie as easily any more.

Second, we have turned most of our urban police stations into a quasi-military commandos...it should be illegal for the army to sell them fuckin military hardware...they are cops, not soldiers, and we are the public, not the enemy.

Third is what I think is the most important factor why we trust our police forces less and less each day...in spite of the fact that it is a very, very small percentage of them who are assclowns, the second the assclown acts like an assclown the entire force circles the wagons around them, thereby becoming assclowns themselves.

If cops don't like being perceived as the enemy of the public instead of the servants of the public, then they should be the most anxious to get rid of shittty cops, not the most anxious to throw up a hundred foot tall blue line and get behind it with the very jackasses that are making them look bad.

Fish on...

Todd

Police(normal patrol) are very far from anything that includes the word commando.

The issues are 3 fold. Media focusing on race on anything that involves a black suspect. The general public acting as if they know how to correctly do police work by stating their expert opinions (glad none of that is here ahem ahem). And of course officers losing their ethics. Values, and reasons for becoming police officers which leads to pis poor decisions and becoming jaded. Not good traits for any job dealing with the public, especially the 5% that most citizens prefer to believe don't exist

were you MP? Don't mean anything by it just that you seem pretty well-versed in policing.

No, I'm not an MP but I did stay at a holiday Inn express.

that explains it.

C-O

Middle east combat vets make chitty Peace officers....imo.

Cops kill white people 2:1 over blacks

Is this a surprise considering race distribution?

Whites make up 60% of the population, and blacks make up around 15%.

So really, whites ought to be killed by police at a 4 to 1 ratio, all other things being equal - which I'm aware they aren't.

That's just lazy reporting.

Of course it is...but it's the same lazy reporting of "crucial facts" that have been reported for years, usually to show how much worse of criminals all those black people are.

Fish on...

Todd

WASHINGTON -- The FBI says that 72 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, up from 56 the year before.

An additional 53 officers died in accidents, and 54,774 officers were assaulted in the line of duty.

The average age of officers killed in the line of duty was 38.

Of the 72 slayings, 23 were in arrest situations, 15 were ambushed, 11 were in traffic pursuits or stops, and nine were in tactical situations.

The report says 29 deaths happened in the South, 21 in the Midwest, 10 in the West, and 10 in the Northeast. The other two were in Puerto Rico.

Sixty-nine of the slain officers were males.

Horrible police work can devastate a lot of friends and family to the victim.
Not crappy reporting either.
http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/10/...lywood-20140410

Knock it off Hank, you know things like facts and logic only lead to shouting, name calling and a gang bang pile on around here.

Like the fact that it costs 48k a year to attend UW?

lol

You'd have trouble identifying a fact if one was beating lumps into your head, Mr. Big-boned Cat.

This kind of racial profiling is apparently ok .

http://socawlege.com/boston-university-a...nts-on-twitter/

Can you imagine a white govt employee saying something like all a black man needs to be happy is tight pussy loose shoes and a warm place to shat. He would be forced out that day . Oh wait!

Stupity and ignorance do not discriminate and welcomes all races and ethnicities to its ranks.

Black racism is excused and tolerated . Racism towards Asians is tolerated.


Btw a recording of the shooting that started this thread showed the homeowner had 2 seconds warning to drop his weapon before the cop shot him.