Police Shoot Homeowner 6 times
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Stumble ThisA Phoenix Police officer shot a homeowner in the back six times. The man and his wife had apparently called the police because someone broke into their home. The homeowner had subdued the intruder and had him held at gunpoint on the floor until the police arrived. When the police arrived they fired into the home and hit the man six times, without issuing any verbal commands. He was still on the phone with 911 while all of this was going on. The police then dragged the man out of his home by his leg, which they shot him in, in front of his wife and children. The wife had apparently told the police several times that her husband was the one with the gun and was holding the intruder.
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According to the above article, the officer was found to have not violated any policy.
Godamn, there is no justice in the world.
After an incident, a Police Department launches an investigation of themselves and typically find they did nothing wrong.
Your only recourse in this case is to make a civil case out of it, but the cost of suing a State run organization is like suing a Corporation. It's prohibitively expensive.
As long as we have professional police forces, we'll never have justice.
As long as we have professional police forces, we'll never have justice.
What is a viable alternative? Private contractors?
If only there were MORE guns in the situation everyone would have been safe.
"A friend called me up and told me I would meet the lady of my dreams, in a days time. Sure enough I did! He must be psychic!"
I also like to equate comments like the quoted to trying to compare The Big Bang Theory to Evolution.
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As long as we have professional police forces, we'll never have justice.
What is a viable alternative? Private contractors?
When the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787, there wasn't such a thing as a professional policeman. It was a foreign idea that would've been scoffed at. There were Constables and Sheriffs, but their roles weren't "crime-fighting", but rather handing out writs and serving court papers.
I maintain a belief that a well armed public is all you need. Individuals can do much better at handling their own affairs than a bureaucracy.
So, no, not everything needs to go to contractors or private businesses or big multinational Corporations. Sometimes the individual can do for himself.
Also back in 1787 they didn't a police force because there wasn't much call for one. When a community is only a few hundred people or at most a few thousand, its a lot easier to keep tabs on who's doing what. When an "average" town gets to be 20-30 thousand and the problems get alot bigger than what a neighborhood militia can take care of.
I think the biggest problem with the police forces as they stand today is a complete lack of over site. All they have is there own internal division to investigate themselves, and a justice department that seems quick to side with the police. There's also the faction of police apologists and enablers, the ones who cheer on the cops when they break out the tear gas to break up some rowdy kids protesting something silly like their right to free speech. In this case the guy could have been a Republican poster boy. A guy using his 2nd amendment right to protect his home and family. He would have been a hero and paraded around on FOX news. Instead the cops shot him six times in the back, without so much a verbal warning, with his wife telling the cops he was in there and holding the intruder at gun point. Maybe if they see there actually is something wrong with the way the police operate, and not just a bunch of liberal pussies crying change can actually take place. Or maybe they'll just close their ears and eyes and pretend nothing happened.
When no police are around then the people will fill the vacuum, but the effect is not necessarily increased safety. Pray that you don't live near two opposing enforcement groups.