Your Police Department
Posted on 12/16/2012 8:20:50 PM PST by rdl6989
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- Police confirmed Sunday night that two officers were shot while responding to reports of a suspicious vehicle at a Dillons grocery store in central Topeka.
Three officers responded to 1400 SW Huntoon St. on reports of a suspicious vehicle sometime after 6:09 p.m.
While details of what transpired when the officers arrived on scene were not immediately released, police confirmed that two of the three officers responding were shot.
At 8:30 p.m. Topeka Police said that both officers sustained life-threatening injuries.
Following the shooting, officers from multiple law enforcement agencies responded. The parking lot of the Dillons store was roped off as a crime scene.
Authorities surrounded a home in the 400 block of Buchanan in Topeka Sunday during the 8 p.m. hour, where two suspects connected to the shooting were believed to be.
A SWAT team was on scene.
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Your Police Department
2 people were killed. That's a BadThing(tm).
Prayers are appropriate.
Discussion about cop haters could be on a separate thread.
BTW, I don't hate people. Sometimes I hate what they do.
And for the local constabulary? Mainly I feel a sense of deep saddness at their lack of situational awareness.
Makes me miss the stripes on my sleeve so I could verbally rip the hide off of them, and try to keep them alive.
/johnny
I know how my local officers operate, and train. I've sat in the same classes with them, wearing a different uniform.
Get over it. I'll be the first to say "lawyer up", and the last to say anything positive about people dying.
/johnny
I think I would take exception to “a goodly majority”. Please cite some numbers. Thanks
right, because law enforcement has never been coopted by an oppressive government. we’ll see.
The chopper is still circling over the same general area.
My documentary film director son, Wayne Derrick, made this film - finished it this summer - “Heroes Behind The Badge”. It’s being shown to every police dept. in the country and is now required for every Texas police academy to show it. Go here:
http://www.heroesbehindthebadge.com/about.html
I have a friend last name Owens Please let me know if his name is part of this.
CPL David Gogian and Officer Jeff Atherly
Atherly is on the left, Gogian on the right. Sorry for the confusion.
Prayers continue for the families.
johnny
One of these officers has a son who is also a policeman here and was on duty tonight when it happened according to news reports.
Yeah, that was my first thought, too.
These are the kind of stories in “Heroes Behind The Badge”. Informing the public about offiers killed and the effect it has on their families. I’ll make sure my son is aware of what is happening in your area tonight. He became close to the families who lost their fathers, brothers.
Thank you and good night everybody. I hope the suspect is caught before sunrise.
My prayers to each.
Damn, dude...you best check yourself.
“A goodly majority of ‘Freepers’ like to take the easy road and assume that the 0.5%-1.0% of bad police officers define all police officers.”
I will lead off by saying that I support good law enforcement. I will also say that i live in an upscale community in Northern California where crime isn’t a major issue. In all seriousness, just where do you get the 0,5-1.0% “bad police officers” statistic? If that were reality, I would have no issue. Several years ago, I had occasion to submit a written complaint about one of our officer’s behavior. The way the department handled my complaint would lead you to conclude that I was the criminal. Law Enforcement today does not take kindly to being criticized and as a consequence, they go after the complainant with a vengence. I was threatened, interrogated in a windowless room, and the chief ignored a final response for more than a year (until I went to the Town Council and demanded that they provide direction). And you know, at the end of the day, it was all about “not coloring the cop’s permanent record.” What he did, wasn’t the issue, protecting his retirement was what it was all about.Shoot, when I went into the department and asked for the complaint form, the desk sgt. threw it at me and he didn’t even know what my concern was. They act like a bunch of spoiled children, but unlike children, they have weapons and the color of authority.
So maybe, you’re right, there is that small percentage that exhibit true criminal behavior, but I will bet you that the number grows substantially when you include all the stuff that cops get away with that would be cause for the arrest of any of us ordinary citizens. Their attitude is “we are the cops, we are not accountable to anyone for our behavior; we are above the laws we are sworn to uphold”
Would that it wasn’t so, but pal, it is! I don’t hate cops, but I sure as hell don’t trust them.
Stop being a cry baby. The people lost their lives. it is not about you and hurt feelings. if you think you can do the job, go through training and take the political correctness crap they put on each officer. With society as messed up as it, the cops have enough crap to deal with. Use some respect.
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