The Law Enforcement Officer Thread

Someone may have barricaded themselves.

I dunno, I can't find anything on it.

Just a bunch of stuff saying there's an emergency and to stay inside and lock your doors.

edited 19th Jul '14 8:28:17 PM by LeGarcon

People in the immediate area recieved an automated call from the county's emergency management service. Posted here partially wondering what sort of situation would warrant the response (if the information is correct). Besides the Eric Rudolph incident I can't recall a time when anything similar in the region has happened.

Maybe some nut is wandering about with a gun or a crim escaped. Who knows.

Seems the business in Murphy ended last night around 1 AM.

One male suspect is in custody and police aren't revealing any further information at the time.

They'll hold a press conference when they're ready to divulge anything.

Now I'm really curious as to what it was.

Minneapolis police try to do a better job reaching out to our Somali population. http://m.startribune.com/?id=268749491

As a fellow Minneapolis resident (though specifically, the suburbs), this is good to hear. Police don't need to be seen as the bad guys, and it's especially important to reach out to a community that is (sadly) preyed upon for terrorism recruiting.

edited 28th Jul '14 9:52:46 AM by speedyboris

Greetings! I don't want to cause any trouble, but this among other events especially involving some individuals in the NYPD is of continued concern and I was hoping maybe we could talk about it. If it's not the right place, I understand, and if I could be pointed to a more appropriate thread, I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Hmm, do you have it from another source? Reason.org is a pretty libertarian site and that's a polite way of saying anarchist. Not exactly cop tolerant.

I'm loath to link The Daily Mail and saw the story not too long ago on "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, but I don't know how long turn over from broadcast to internet is, so hopefully the NYDailyNews will do. Though I have to take issue with the author quoting himself in the title. That's just a little silly.

Naked asthmatic Brooklyn grandmother dragged from apartment, left topless in hallway for minutes by NYPD officers who say she beat 12-year-old daughter “There were no injuries to the child as alleged in the complaint".

edited 2nd Aug '14 11:21:49 AM by Cyran

Reports from CTV have mentioned an Emergency Task Force operation (given the gray uniforms) stormed a plane to arrest a man who had been unruly to interrupt a flight.

In a new study conducted by researchers tasked with studying of the root causes and consequences of terrorism in the U.S. and abroad, the sovereign citizen movement was perceived to be the gravest terrorist threat, rivaling Islamist extremists and militia/patriot groups.

I am not all that surprised. They live in a world of legal fiction and tend to fall in with the worst of the tin foil hat brigades.

Yeah, color me not surprised, especially given the three ring circus that went down in Nevada (what ever happened to that? Are all the militia dudes still standing around in the desert sticking it to The Man?)

I think there are still a few holdouts, the Feds having given up along time ago. Though the summer heat drove a lot of them away, as did Cliven's little rant about how slavery was a good thing for the enslaved.

Still licking Bundy's boots and wearing tinfoil hats. They are still under the illusion that the Government doesn't have a lot more time then they do to wait things out.

edited 4th Aug '14 7:24:40 PM by TuefelHundenIV

I thought it would be funny if the government sent out a truck with bottled water to make sure the poor dears didn't die of thirst.

The psychos might shoot the driver.

Bundy went on another rant recently mumbling something about god. I think his all timers is rotting his brain through.

Though to be fair they are technically not Sovereign citizens they are the militia part of the problem.

The Moncton shooter has plead guilty to 3 counts of murder, and 2 counts of attempted murder. He's almost certainly going away for life and will hopefully be forgotten as anything other than a paranoid killer.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/justin-bourque-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-3-moncton-mounties-1.2730536

Since we keep on going on about the 'rise of the warrior cop', I wondered what social commentary could be made by the shooter video game series battlefield switching from it's modern military setting to modern-day cops and robbers.

edited 8th Aug '14 7:51:39 PM by joeyjojo

Hell if I know but I had an unbelievable amount of fun in the beta for that game.

Spy satellites fighting crime from space

various link about Michael brown case :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/11/video-riots-tear-through-missouri-town-over-police-shooting/

http://www.vox.com/2014/8/11/5988925/mike-brown-killing-shooting-case-ferguson-police-riots-st-louis

http://thehairpin.com/2014/08/ferguson

http://www.thenation.com/blog/180943/death-michael-brown-and-search-justice-black-america#

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/michael-brown-die-ferguson

http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/michael-brown-die-ferguson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michael-brown-shooting-protesters-police-clash-overnight-in-ferguson-mo/2014/08/12/733985e6-2220-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html

i think the police response to demonstration (police dogs, armored vehicle, using tear gas to disperse crowd) show cracked ( http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-police-are-starting-to-look-like-supervillains/ )point nicely. it also show that many riot, like 68 DNC riot is police-started riot, when police is the one who attack first.

About Killdozer : How likely this is happening ? in the last 50 year, in the hundred of town and cities in america, how many suffer attack by tank ? there are things when you must call National Guard, not every police force should be able to fight tanks.

Also i think evacuation is not a bad thing, in killdozer case it reasonable decision to simply evacuate civilian and wait until he must leave car, he cannot live forever inside killdozer anyway.

police doesn;t have to act very aggressively to "confront" criminals. not every criminals worth car chase and SWAT attack. a lot of time, letting criminal escape, siege and starve, or negotiation is acceptable. police in America had time, investigative skill, and national support when chasing criminals anyway. a lot of escape criminal could be captured in the next state after all.

While preparing for emergency had virtue (Boston hospital deal very effectively aftermath of marathon bomb) There is a limit of preparedness. Not small town every police need armored car or SWAT team. Cracked had already point out that having this equipment encourage unnecessary use, there are no need of armored car to break cockfighting.

When were we talking about the Killdozer guy? What did they end up doing in his case, anyways? As I recall, nothing they had was effective and the guy committed suicide.