Today in cops gone feral

The LAPD has an elite squad for just this purpose. They are called SWAT.

 

Your expectations for policing are unrealistic. Cops are responding to a call for a stabbing suspect, encounter a man carrying a large knife, tell him to drop it, fire non-lethal bean bag rounds at him, he grabs a hostage and starts cutting her throat and they open fire in a desperate effort to stop him. All in under 30 seconds.

You think they should've talked to him while standing there watching him take the woman's head off?

What happened is horrific, but this is not one of those situations where I'm going to be critical of how the police handled it.

 

I hear you. In this case the police should have shot the guy before he took a hostage. You don't have to kill him, but one 9 mm to the extremities would have got his attention.

 

This story is pretty fucked up. Sounds like he may have planted a gun, and then thought better of it, and picked it back up.

It also always amazes me that they don’t release the officer’s name immediately in these cases.

 

The Met police in London have their disciplinary proceedings on-line. One cop was accused - and cleared - of stealing someone else's biscuits from the station fridge. They put his name out there.

 

I thought in England the stealing of biscuits was punishable by death

 

Those numbers look horrific, but the Tweet changes the explanation a bit to make it worse - intentionally or unintentionally - and the Des Moines PD is claiming the numbers are false to begin with. An activist group is claiming those are the arrest stats for one officer, which if true would need some serious explanation.

 

There's no way the overall numbers can be true. By luck, at night, someone who wasn't black was bound to be pulled over.

 

That's a really shitty report from the TV station. You can't just regurgitate the numbers given to you by an activist group. You can't trust them at all. You need to see the reports for yourself.

Having said that... fuck that cop, man. What a ridiculous and blatant DWB. That driver had done absolutely nothing wrong and the cop rolls up on him like he's Al Capone.