Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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At least no one died…
This is ridiculous. Openly masturbating in someones house...
@Skizzo
I literally lost count of how many long guns I saw on cops in this clip. Why didn’t those there try to enter into the school & engage the shooter?
I literally lost count of how many long guns I saw on cops in this clip. Why didn’t those there try to enter into the school & engage the shooter?
and if they rush in to a school to confront the guy and accidentally shot a student child in a crossfire incident.....then what? they can absolutely battered by the media for rushing in. It's a no win situation for them
The one officer that did go in quickly by himself was shot and killed if reports are accurate
Parkland police went in far quicker iirc. Just doesn’t seem consistent. Or effective use of available labor.
You can hear the gunshots in the background. They should have mobilized what they had & went in to neutralize the shooter. Now they have scores of kids dead.
I get that they might not be trained as well as an HRT team, etc., but to use the excuse that one hostage might get caught in the crossfire for not doing anything is weak in my opinion.
no...not debating at all as i think with this especially being young children they should have been much more aggressive with going in to stop him from killing more kids
again though...that one hostage is a little kid not an adult. I'm sure guys on the ground there were more than ready and anxious to go in and kill the shooter
It looks really bad for the local police that they waited outside while kids were getting shot inside.
All it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a guy with an armored battalion?
The arguments for guns gets weaker and weaker so the goalposts will keep getting moved by the gun nuts.
One door, secure the schools, mental illness treatment, etc,
Everything except actual common sense gun control.
All it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a guy with an armored battalion?
The arguments for guns gets weaker and weaker so the goalposts will keep getting moved by the gun nuts.
One door, secure the schools, mental illness treatment, etc,
Everything except actual common sense gun control.
Probably don’t have a good answer for you unfortunately. I’d like to say they were organized and had people already going in and this group was focused solely on keeping parents out as a safety precaution.
unfortunately though it seems like they have no real setup. They should have some sort of training at the very least on clearing buildings and active shooter situations. We had one just last month. It might possibly be a policy thing where they’re advised to stay out until they have enough units or whatever whatever, but we’ve been instructed that if we get there, we wait for units, but if there’s active gunshots, you go in on your own if you’re the only one there to engage.
That’s what got me. A third of the way through it, there appears to be two sets of gunshots, but no visible reaction.
I could only hazard a guess as to what their mindset is there, but I can’t imagine why at least one of them wouldn’t go in. You have parents willing to rush in there unarmed to try and save their kid. Any officer there who’s a parent should find it impossible not to be moving in. I have three kids and I can’t imagine standing there in that situation just waiting around doing nothing. People are relying on them to do something, that’s the help you hope arrives, and then this is the response from them. Disappointing doesn’t even scratch the surface. There’s situations where policy is very cut and dry, and like I said, I’m not sure if their policy restricts their actions in a situation like this, but certain things would be more than justified in going outside that guideline.
Our county sheriffs dept took us through their school / building clearing training one time a few years back. That's what they are trained to do as well.
There’s a video where a PR cop confirmed that cops went in & got their own kids out early in the chaos, but then retreated.
Maybe it falls back on being a smaller department and they aren’t trained, or comfortable, performing in that situation. If that’s the case, that raises a whole new set of issues and just reinforces the lack of training complaint that people have.
Possibly. All I know is they’re gonna have a hard time justifying taking up 40% of the city budget to do… whatever that was
Well if that’s true then I’d have to not comment at this time because I’d only have incredibly negative things to say. Hopefully the guilt of living with that for the rest of their life makes their life miserable. Those kids will grow up with all kinds of guilt if their friends were killed and their dad pulled them out but left others behind.
I agree. I know some people in here have commented on cops in different areas liking to play military with all the gear, but if it doesn’t come with the training and willingness to actually use it in a situation like this, and not just as a show of force at some protest, then it should all be taken away and the city close their department until they can find suitable candidates to work there. Conversely, if @calodo2003 post above is true, I don’t know how they justify their existence at all.
Agreed.
I saw the clip he's talking about too, I'll try and find it. Dude said it so matter of fact too, like it was no big deal.
Yeah I’m not sure they need much acknowledgment. Although maybe they do need to be acknowledged so everyone can be aware of those actions and what they chose to do.
Can they be prosecuted? Was it Sandy Hook where a police officer was prosecuted for not going in? This is somehow both more understandable and much worse.
if you’re taking about the school resource officer, that was more recent. The fact that there’s enough to get mixed up is depressing in its own right.
I touched on it in the other thread. I feel that US police officers just look poorly trained and mentally unfit AF despite all of that equipment of theirs. I don't think it can be any more evident than what we saw in Uvalde. As a result, I don't think cops should be anywhere near carrying a gun unless they meet requirements on mental and physical fitness in high-pressure situations that would demand the use of firearms. Furthermore, such fitness has to be regularly assessed.
I have read about Britain's specialist firearms officers (SFOs); those guys are the cream of the crop and are helped by a solid system of mobile patrols for quicker responses. I only wish that US police corps could hold the same high standards for the sake of 1) intervening when they have to, and 2) knowing how and when to use guns in a situation.
I have read about Britain's specialist firearms officers (SFOs); those guys are the cream of the crop and are helped by a solid system of mobile patrols for quicker responses. I only wish that US police corps could hold the same high standards for the sake of 1) intervening when they have to, and 2) knowing how and when to use guns in a situation.
It was easier when I just had to remember Columbine.
Pretty sure this will be spun and they will be arguing they need more than 40% of the city budget with the backing of their republic constituents and politicians ... and I won't be surprised if they get it.
That was the Margerir Stoneman shooting in Florida I think.
Good question. No clue to be honest
Someone should have told the police that the shooter was black, bet they’d all be rushing in.
"The shooter was black and his guns were probably fake!"
really??? have to make it racial? they knew the shooter was hispanic so ......
So all these pigs are actually good for is executions then? No desire to actually help when they're needed? So much for the "good guy with a gun" theory.
Those pesky fake guns
My point was the police stood by did nothing while kids are getting murdered, if they thought he was black there would probably be going in guns blazing seeing as that what usually happens when police hear black people are involved
Wait, what?
“Department of Juvenile Justice Director Eden Hendrick told the television station that when the teen was transferred to their custody hours later, he was patted down, showered and dressed in facility clothes but the second weapon went undetected. It was not until the next day that the second weapon was discovered”
What a bunch of feckwits. If I suddenly found out that American cops were failed security guards a week ago, it would make a ton of sense.
only the best & brightest
fecking hell.
*Jean-Luc Picard facepalm gif*