Posted on 05/13/2017 3:42:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
When Seattle police officers write use of force reports they no longer call a suspect a suspect.
“Community member” is the new term. Several officers say the term is offensive, explaining their work with violent suspects.
Sources point to the suspect who shot three officers last month after a downtown Seattle armed robbery. When officers involved in that incident were writing their use of force reports they were required to refer to the shooter, Damarius Butts, as a “community member,” not a suspect, police sources said.
Police fatally shot Butts after they said he shot the officers.
“I think this is all in an effort to make sure our report writing sounds politically correct,” Seattle Police Officers' Guild Kevin Stuckey told KIRO 7.
The online use of force reporting system, called Blue Team, is used for more than just use of force reports. It also tracks the department’s administrative investigations and the Early Intervention System among other reports. A photo sent to KIRO 7 shows the Blue Team in a recent online department training.
The “community member” terminology changed for multiple forms – but it’s only in the use of force reports that officers find offensive.
(Excerpt) Read more at kiro7.com ...
Maybe they’re just making reference to the suspect’s “member?” Since it’s probably been “around the community” a lot, the reference may well be accurate.
CRIMINAL Community Member...
Illegal alien = undocumented migrant
Drug dealer = undocumented Pharmacist
Islamic terrorist = undocumented missionary
Democratic politician = undocumented idiot
I am so confused by these opaque circumlocutions.
Does ‘community member’ have the same meaning as ‘one of Obama’s sons’?
I would have referred to the suspect as “mortality challenged”...
Community or comoonity?
The newsies would much rather talk about police shooting a “community member” than shooting a “suspect.” “Suspect” is such a loaded word. It implies that the person mentioned might have been doing something remiss while “community member” PCorrectly puts the implication of bad behavior on the cop.
Ed
Thanks spelchek
Ed
It pisses me off when the news show a video of a guy beating a man with a bat, pouring gas on him and them lighting him on fire and referring to that man doing this as the ALLEGED suspect??? Nothing alleged about it!
What if he’s from out of town? Another state? What if he’s a certified Alabama redneck?
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