A policy more departments should adopt.

should they adopt a policy of breaking in to the wrong house?
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Perhaps of breaking into an empty house? That'll usually get the officers home safely. Unless, of course, one officer shoots accidentally another.
 
Hmmm:confused: I'll take a guess.:cool:
A policy more departments should adopt.
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Repairing/paying for the damage that is incurred by police incompetence, stupidity and being just plain ol' trigger-happy.
I think it would be far less expensive and not to mention safer if the mall ninjas with badges would just go play paintball instead.
 
Bet you won't see that one on Dallas Swat.:barf: This happened a few years ago to someone who was home, with a gun. He killed one of the cops before they announced who they were. Despite the police's own incompetance he is serving time. Maybe someone can provide a link to that particular story.
 
Fort Worth police say they were acting on what appeared to be credible information from an informant's tip. But on Friday, the department admitted that it made a mistake.
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That's what they call, in Police Work, "a clue"...do not trust the "information from an informant". They are hardly well intentioned citizens; they will give you every bit the value of information that you can extract by years of torture. That is, after all, what they trade "information" for.....avoidance of the jail time.

Personally (and I know this is gonna be unpopular), I'd double the sentence for anyone willing to snitch in return for a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. Even with criminals, I'd rather face those with some sense of values, no matter how warped. The simpering "informants" should simply be flushed.
Rich
 
OmegaBlood[\i] posted:
Repairing/paying for the damage that is incurred by police incompetence, stupidity and being just plain ol' trigger-happy.
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You win the reading comprehension prize.

But, let's be accurate, these officers weren't "just plain ol' trigger happy" - they neither terrified nor shot any innocent bystanders. They didn't even injure any other officers.
 
You win the reading comprehension prize.
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Did I win a trip to the paintball park to play mall ninja?:p
Seriously though, I wish people on ALL message boards would first read posts and try comprehending them before posting.
 
But, let's be accurate, these officers weren't "just plain ol' trigger happy"
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Officer "intent" matters little when your home is being tear gassed and invaded. The fact that no officers were killed is sheer luck of the draw in this case....it could easily have ended in tragedy.

Honest mistake? Yes. But how long are we going to countenance Police Invasion of Law Abiding Citizens' homes on the say-so of criminals? An apology and a clean up crew is not "reparations"....not to the citizenry that has to live in fear that they could be next.
Rich
 
Rich Lucibella said:
Personally (and I know this is gonna be unpopular), I'd double the sentence for anyone willing to snitch in return for a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card. Even with criminals, I'd rather face those with some sense of values, no matter how warped. The simpering "informants" should simply be flushed.
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I'll go one better, Rich. I believe the prosecutors who "pay" informants for their testimony should be put in jail along with the informants. Even though plea bargaining is a historic practice in our legal system, it amounts to bribing a witness which is a felony in every state in the union. The federal statute against it can be found here: TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 11 > § 201. Bribery of public officials and witnesses
 
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