Dorner Manhunt Reveals Police Contempt for Public Safety

Reason ^ | February 15, 2013 | Steven Greenhut

[null and void]

Says you. I'm pretty sure someone will be along shortly to 'splain to you how it was a righteous murder take down.

[Doctor 2Brains]

Dude, you’re giving them an excuse. They don’t think people are out to get ‘em... They’re filthy scum-sucking punks on power trips. That’s all.

[Alaska Wolf]

The media has not mentioned nor this piece at “Reason.”

Interesting but not surprising as the MSM has definitely been a Dorner supporter,criminal apologist and anti LE.

Thanks for posting. I wasn't aware the shooting incident with the two women victims occurred in the dark at 4:30 AM.

[fr_freak]

Not every department. SJPD are still peace officers, LAPD are law enforcement.

As a former San Jose resident, I've heard first-hand accounts of some pretty nasty behavior from SJPD officers. I wouldn't trust them any more than I would trust LAPD

[donna]

And screaming while it happens.

[loungitude]

The cops couldn’t make out who was in the truck so they shot it up. That’s OK? Damn.

[null and void]

I’ve had them pounding on my bedroom door in the wee hours, and on the front door late at night, I’ve had two warrantless searches on my property, one with my explicit permission, one not so much. Half the fix-it tickets and half the moving violations I’ve gotten in over 40 years of driving were at the hands of SJPD.

I still like them.

Especially after having lived in LA and dealt with LAPD.

[Uncle Miltie]

So they back-shoot skinny old Hispanic ladies instead of seeing a fat young black man. Okay.......

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

“Simply put, the police culture in our country has changed,” argued former San Jose Police Chief Joe McNamara, a Hoover Institution scholar, in a Wall Street Journal article in 2006. “An emphasis on ‘officer safety’ and paramilitary training pervades today’s policing, in contrast to the older culture, which held that cops didn’t shoot until they were about to be shot or stabbed.”

No truer words spoken. This is a fact. The cop culture has gone from police patrolling to military occupation. The blue line vs. all comers. Right down to shooting fido before there is any chance for fido to jump the fence.

We are rapidly spawning a police state on the local and federal level. Our freedom is in imminent danger.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

I wasn't aware the shooting incident with the two women victims occurred in the dark at 4:30 AM.

That's another thing about the media coverage on this incident. The photo they broadcast across the world was that of the shot-up pickup hours later after daybreak. Seems they let most readers assume it occurred in full light.

Seeing as we are not fully Orwellian yet, let's call the MSM the Agency of Lies while we still may. Maybe that way we may help prevent later generations from being forced to call it the Ministry of Truth.

[Paladin2]

So the cops unloading their "clips" on a vehicle that was not firing on them is OK?

Lights off are probable cause?

An arm out the window is a deadly threat?

Give me a break.

[donna]

I just happened to be reading “Sudden Prey” (1996) (Lucas Davenport, book 8) last week and it has the EXACT scene in the book.

It was very interesting to read and gave a real insight as to what happened.

[cherry]

sorry, but you're wrong.....if anything whatever "feminism" occurred in the last several decades has actually enabled some men to become more brutish, more arrogant, more self absorbed, less caring than before....

thus, they think almost all of us are the underlings, and they are the macho powerful men looking out for numero uno first and foremost....

women and children be damned...

[Alaska Wolf]

That's another thing about the media coverage on this incident. The photo they broadcast across the world was that of the shot-up pickup hours later after daybreak. Seems they let most readers assume it occurred in full light.

Seems there are many who prefer not to see the facts or have the facts presented.

[ozzymandus]

I have to say I found the panic and cowardice of the LAPD to be shameful.

[fr_freak]

I still like them.

Especially after having lived in LA and dealt with LAPD.

Well, maybe that's the difference. I've never lived in LA, so maybe I don't understand just how bad they can be.

[null and void]

Chivalry didn’t die, it was murdered.

[null and void]

Ain't that the truth!

[microgood]

Not every department. SJPD are still peace officers, LAPD are law enforcement.

That is kind of the case where I live too - the police act more respectful toward citizens. But I think the evolution of SWAT midnight raids using military tactics are becoming common everywhere and it breeds this mindset we saw when those cops opened up on those two poor girls.

[Dartman]

... and haven’t scanned any of the other responses on other threads

Well I have, and it seems the police said they were suspicious of the women's vehicle because it was starting and stopping along the street. None of them seemed to notice that every time it stopped, a newspaper came flying out the window of the pickup. Also, many paper delivery people turn their headlights off so as not to disturb the neighbours. I guess the rule is, if you're not sure ...shoot!