Posted on 07/28/2014 4:18:55 PM PDT by Ray76
Following April’s standoff between federal agents and civilian protesters at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada, tensions on both sides of the issue remained high. What one law enforcement professional posted on social media regarding the incident, however, went far beyond the bounds of policy disagreement.
After publicly fantasizing about blowing a protester’s head off with his sniper rifle, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that [Officer Laws] was soon called out by fellow Facebook user J.L. Bourne.
According to sources within the department, he was transferred out of the SWAT team and placed on patrol duty.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournalism.com ...
Many on FR have accused me of being uncritically pro-LEOs.
I don't hesitate a second before agreeing with the above statement.
If the authority to kill is enjoyed, that person is absolutely in the wrong profession.
http://reason.com/archives/1993/10/01/ambush-at-ruby-ridge/
There will always be those at the edge of the bell curve. Don’t doubt the patriotism of those willing to sacrifice their life for YOU.
I figure 90% will be on the side that signs their checks. Remember that ever so often a few cops will be busted for being involved with warning or otherwise helping drug dealers do business.
I saw it as a kid before drugs when bootlegging was a big business in my state. Local sheriff pulled up and parked next to me and a friend and waited till a local bootlegger parked next to him and the cop unloaded booze from his car that he had seized from the bootlegger’s competitor the night before. Then cash changed hands. He was the county sheriff and I was 6 feet away.
The sheriff was found some months later bullet riddled and his car torched. No one was charged let alone tried. Everyone knew he was dirty and figured he got what he had coming. True story. Nothing has changed except the money paid is now bigger.
I know from seeing it up close and personal, other stories. I wasn’t always a Christian.
Bump for later. Thanks for the link.
This works right into an email I sent to our county commission chairman, to wit: (She wrote to tell me she had lost my original email)
After searching MY sent emails, I find that MY copy is also missing. (NSA?? Only kidding — I think!)
That message was simply my effort to indicate my support for “Cop Cams” (those worn by each officer) in addition to the dash cams in the cars.
There appears to be an increasing amount of excessive force being employed by SOME officers in some jurisdictions. And while that problem has most likely been with us for decades, the proliferation of cell phone cameras and social media have brought it to the fore as never before. A collateral situation is police shooting and killing otherwise non-threatening dogs simply because they LOOK threatening. This family of animal lovers (all rescues) believes that must also stop.
The cost of this technology is falling every year and the benefits are several-fold. My guess is that the offset of the cost would be better police behavior, fewer complaints of misconduct and/or less litigation and increased citizen satisfaction with more uniformly administered law enforcement. “To Protect and Serve” would resume meaning what it did when I was growing up.
In controversial police/citizen interactions, the camera provides an objective, real-time record of the event, minimizing — or eliminating — false claims of “police misconduct” and the often frivolous but costly civil suits. I’m sure most of my fellow taxpayers would agree that that’s a financial burden we’d prefer to avoid.
The other benefit is that the cameras would also remind those wearing them that following correct, civil and courteous — police procedures would go a long way toward ensuring the longevity of their careers. The occasional — and inevitable — “bad apple” could be promptly identified and removed from contact with the public or the force. (That said, my few contacts with county officers in my 37 years here have always been completely satisfactory.)
As the graphic below indicates, this system DOES WORK very, very well and more departments are availing themselves of it each year.
Just by way of background, my Uncle Bob was a 30 year member of a suburban Cleveland, Ohio force, ending his career as their chief juvenile investigator. He was also my Best Man when Sharon and I wed 53 years ago. And my sister is married to another cop. So please understand that this DOES NOT flow from any feelings of enmity toward law enforcement. My concern flows from the disturbing increase in overreaching and overzealous ABUSES of police power at ALL levels.
Let me close by commenting that I always got the sense that you are as liberty minded as I am and simply suggest this system as but another method to preserve them. God knows that — especially at this moment in our history — we need to employ every peaceful method available to us.
I would urge you to investigate this matter with an eye toward implementing such a system here. A friend in Cobb just told me that they are doing just that.
As always, kindest regards,
Dick Bachert
Her reply:
Thanks, Dick, for taking the time to reconstruct your message. I have passed the information to the County Administrator and Police Chief and asked that this be reviewed for feasibility and cost. I appreciate your sharing the idea with me.
Trust me I WILL stay on top of this until it either gets done or they refuse. And if they refuse, they’d damn well better have some excuse well beyond the cost.
QUESTION: What’s going on where YOU live????
I agree with you EDVINA, someone harboring sentiments like that and actually makes them public for all to see, has completely given themselves up, and should lose their badge and gun permanently.
Maybe he can take his righteous anger out on some little girl’s dog?
They're trained to follow orders, right?
Exactly. He got a *lateral* transfer, is all.
He still packs a weapon. He’ll fantasize about killing motorists now.
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That guy looks exactly like the collectivist enforcer goon he is.
Great! Now he can blow you away in your car for not providing license and registration fast enough.
He should be flipping burgers...
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