How many more?

[Tradd]

Per the scanner feed, all patrol cars are being recalled to stations and will not be on patrol tonight. Will only be responding to serious crimes.

Won't be giving the scumbags any more targets.

[bae]

Per the scanner feed, all patrol cars are being recalled to stations and will not be on patrol tonight. Will only be responding to serious crimes.

Won't be giving the scumbags any more targets.

I am thinking fire/ems responses may be impacted as well.

Ah well, civilization was nice....

[JaneV2.0]

I am thinking fire/ems responses may be impacted as well.

Ah well, civilization was nice....

And all because some sociopathic or otherwise trigger-happy cops didn't have the heart/brains/judgment to handle their weapons properly.

To Iris Lily's point--we expect our police to be at least a couple of notches smarter/calmer/more self-controlled than the average street criminal. Maybe we're too optimistic.

[LDAHL]

And all because some sociopathic or otherwise trigger-happy cops didn't have the heart/brains/judgment to handle their weapons properly.

I think the snipers may have had something to do with it too.

[JaneV2.0]

I think the snipers may have had something to do with it too.

The after-the-fact sniper? That guy?

It's not unexpected that some loose cannon would respond to a constant drumbeat of unprovoked attacks in an equally violent manner. Obviously, too many homicidal cranks have access to lethal weapons.

[DocHolliday]

The Minnesota shooting is sad and unfortunate, especially if it proves to be unprovoked.

But death to black men comes, by an order ofor magnitude, at the hands of other non LEO black men over other demographics.

This week in St. Louis we had 6 deaths within a 24 hour period; none were officer involved shootings. I believe all shooters were black men but I can't verify that. Our local rag doesnt always provide race of shooters or victims, but does provide that info sometimes according to byzantine rules no one understands.

I saw a story yesterday that there have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 560 officer involved shootings of civilians this year, 123 of them black. For everyone of those, there have been 40 killed by members of their own race.

[LDAHL]

I don't think his victims would dismiss him as "after-the-fact".

[DocHolliday]

And where's the NRA after Alton Sterling. Guy didn't do anything wrong, had a legal concealed carry, advised the cop of his gun, and is still dead. If he'd been white Wayne LaPierre would be jumping up and down all red in the face shouting about how wrong it was that a person legally exercising their 2nd amendment right had this happen to them.

Really, what do you base that claim on?

For the record, both the Gun Owners of America & the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have called for investigations into the shootings.

[bae]

The after-the-fact sniper? That guy?

It's not unexpected that some loose cannon would respond to a constant drumbeat of unprovoked attacks in an equally violent manner. Obviously, too many homicidal cranks have access to lethal weapons.

Realize that we have millions of citizens with the ability to easily execute far more deadly attacks, without the use of firearms.

And I'm wondering what the outcome of this approach by the police to terminate their negotiations will be:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ect/?tid=a_inl

They sent in a robot, a drone, with a bomb, and blew the fellow up.

Given the low cost of such technologies today, and the large number of trained people who know how to create improvised explosive and chemical weapons, I'm sort of worried we've crossed the bridge.

(I just had a 4 hour class/drill in dealing such things last night, by purest coincidence. It was sort of cold and wet and dismal.)

[gimmethesimplelife]

I really try to avoid cops whenever possible.

You really are best served by having nothing to do with cops. Society has sunken to the point that for many their only constructive purpose is the potential for life altering settlements due to misbehavior/blatant disregard for both laws and human rights. Rob