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I believe the cops….
While Police should get every support from us in general this example among many shows that they fail to understand one crucial part of their job description: “to serve and protect”. Which definitely does not read “to presume and do the easiest thing” methodology that can always be found in the roots of problematic policing actions.
So, if any Police-person is reading this blog, please do remember that you are our servants and that your duty, for which you are paid (by our money) is to protect us sacrificing yourself first, not us. If not happy with that kind of work, please do quit.
Lets see..
ASK the person for his keys, and LET HIM IN..DUH..
Is it time to take the Dash cam and put one on the HATS of the cops??
#1 – Well, a lot of us don’t believe the cops. Blind faith in your cops will just get you killed.
This one’s pretty simple.
Homeowner gets stinking drunk.
Homeowner stumbles to his house and fumbles around the front door long enough for the neighbors to think someone is breaking in, calls the police stating there is a breakin in progress, and for the police to arrive while all this time he STILL cannot manage to open his door.
Police respond to a home invasion and catch the guy (STILL!! cannot get in).
Police believe this is suspicious (wonder why?) and ask him to get away from the house.
Homeowner gets belligerent and causes problems.
At this moment the police have very good reason to believe this is a breakin because everyone in the world except this guy would have been in his own home a half hour ago.
Not to mention the Homeowner didn’t cooperate (stinking drunk).
“To protect and to serve” is exactly what they were doing at this time.
#5–Ah Yea==you are being very Un-Chritmassy. By your same reasoning, a burglar would have been in and out before the cops would have arrived.
I’m no expert, but I would think being a “trained observer” would be able to tell a drunk from a criminal?
As posted above: “Protect and Serve” THE COMMUNITY—not yourself in a craven chickenshit manner.
I don’t see who the cops where “Protecting and Serving” in this case.
The facts are the homeowner was the one cops found at the scene. The cops at the scene presumed and did the funnest thing for them, they tazed him.
The dumb ass cops justified it by not listening to the homeowners response, instead barking orders and give no room except immediate compliance. No deadly force was justified!
Tazers have killed people. Tazers where introduced as substitute for deadly force, when deadly force is justified. There was no deadly force justified here. The tazer was only used be cause it fun for the cops.
So why did the courts sentence him to 7 days; because, we are all no longer American citizens; instead, we are now inmates in the Minimum Security Prison of America.
America of old is dead, there is no room except immediate compliance to the State. Welcome to your life in the new Russia. Cops are more like KGB then Americans.
Thank you Bush; Thank you conservatives!
#3,
as I SAID in #3…
Find out if he IS at the right house, and let the BASTARD IN..
Less paper work, LESS hassle, LESS problems…
The fun part i FIND IN CITIES..is how many of you FOLKS even KNOW your neighbors..ANd forget to EVEN consider Helping one.
Since I am not a policeman, I can’t say if police are having fun tasering people. But if you read between the lines in most of these tasering cases, it seems that the police are protecting themselves. A crazy example, the first time you walk up to a stranger and the stranger punches you in the nose, you might shrug it off. But if this keeps happening to you, you will not approach strangers so casually. This is survival instinct.
Why put yourself at risk when all you have to do is bring the other person down first, then create a cover story later.
Of course, the police aren’t the only ones protecting themsleves. It is safer to be social online than meeting your neighbors. Your neighbors may hurt you. See what happens when you try being a good samaritan. Can anybody say lawsuits?
But does this excuse the actions of the police?
Chief Wiggum and Eddie at it again. If cops did more community patrolling on foot instead of issuing speeding tickets, they might get to know the citizenry they are trying to serve and protect. Lazy abusive pigs and stupid drunk people aren’t a great place to start.
This doesn’t make sense. Did the cops ask him what he was doing? If it was his house? For his ID (which would have this address on it?)
If I’m fumbling drunk on my porch and some cops rolled up, I’d simply say, “this is my house.” Seems like they did taser before asking questions.
And why do the cops always call a person “the individual.” Bureaucrospeak makes me want to puke.
Sounds like more BS from the PD.