One of Donald E. Westlake’s novels touched upon that. Can’t remember the title but the protagonist proved the point to his partner by robbing a convenience store. All the store owner said when questioned was, “I dunno what he looked like – it was a cop with a gun.” The two of them plotted a caper that would be worth the risk.
I just watched a documentary the other day called The Cheshire Killings. Apparently, the case had national attention, but I seem to have missed it. Anyway, the most shocking thing to me was that when the rapes and killings and setting the house on fire happened the police were all standing around outside the house doing who knows what. For like 30 minutes! The surviving father seemed more intent on vengeance (and I can’t really blame him), but, dang, that police force was completely and utterly useless.
Just found out- she did not die.
An officer with the Platteville Police Department has been placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated,
Meaning paid vacation.
On Friday, the Fort Lupton Police Department released an edited, eight-minute clip of body-camera and dashboard-camera footage that shows the events leading up the collision, as well as the moment the train hit the Platteville Police Department vehicle
Yeah, edited. Not sure WHY they would want to edit. (rolls eyes)
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Much better than that,
They are actually considering charging her. Which, I mean, shooting from your vehicle is some unforgiveable shit, but, goddam.
It could be that they’re trying to leverage Ms. Road-Rage into agreeing not to file what would be a slam-dunk civil suit.
FBI swoops in and raids safe deposit boxes at a private vault company and takes…pretty much everything:
Not sure I’d trust ZeroHedge.
The article is from the LA Times.
The LA Times article is a lot more balanced than the Zero Hodge piece. It seems the FBI probably overstepped, but the business in question did plead guilty to several criminal counts.
The article is written by Tyler Durden. nuff said.
Here’s the LA Times Story (the latest story, there are prior stories linked in the article). The full article may be paywalled, but at least you can see it’s coming from a legitimate news source.
47 members of the Alameda County, California Sheriff’s Department have been suspended (but are still on salary) after failing their psych evaluations.
The story of the FBI stealing things from people’s safety deposit boxes has also been covered at Techdirt. Some of the reports are based on the LA Times article, others are using original sources from the court.
A California father abducted his teenage daughter. They both died in gunfire with the police as she tried to escape being held captive.
I find this story fascinating. They do this? The union doesn’t object to suspending a person who failed a “psych evaluation”? How scientifically valid is this evaluation?
Maryland State cops practice shooting at black guys.
modern policing has become a your-life-in-their-hands situation – I would say that modern psychology is good enough that erring on the side of caution is the better choice, and fuck the police cosa nostra union
In 2018, multiple questions arose concerning the validity of the election for Sheriff in Columbus County, North Carolina. While the election was being investigated, the guy who allegedly won was put aside and a temporary sheriff put in place. Immediately, the put aside guy started calling the temporary guy and told him he needed to start firing all of the blacks in the department.
Well, the temporary guy recorded all of those calls, and now he’s running against the other guy, and he’s released the tapes.
The story takes an interesting turn…
The “kidnapped” 15-year-old supposedly shot at deputies before being killed in Hesperia shootout
Now, I’m inclined to take the sheriff’s statement with a grain of salt. Still, now that the CA DOJ is looking into this, is it to his department’s benefit to come up with an easily-disprovable lie? Did they find a gun on her person? Was it fired? Was gunpowder residue found on her clothing?
I’m inclined to believe that they are flat out lying.