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Originally Posted by Finfeatherfur
Until you have walked in their shoes, you have no idea!!! You guys crack me up!! Internet tough guys that are going to arm chair quaterback an incident you have no knowlege of. Only what you see on a Youtube video. Why were police there??? Oh, that's right - neighbors called because he was whacked out carrying a kid waving a gun. It said officer "thought he saw" and that is all that is needed in a perceived threat.
I invite any of you to come for a 12-14 hour shift on a ride-a-long to some of the areas we work. By all means, feel free to jump out and get your hands dirty at anytimes! It's very easy to critize when you have no idea what is going on out there. I recently had a "community activist" complain to our chief. When asked what I thought we should do, I immediately told him to have him ready to go Saturday night. I picked the guy up at his house at 8pm and drove around for 2 hours visiting. Then I got down to business and by midnight he asked me to take him home. By Wednesday of the next week he had a letter in the paper saying how "disappointed" he was in his community.
I was involved in a shooting this past November. That guy was unarmed. Until you have been there, ****.
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Thirty three years in law enforcement, over one thousand arrests, I thank God I never had to shoot someone though several situations came close. I don't remember how many times I've been to IAD but was never found guilty of any of the false charges. IAD Lt. stated, Rick, show me a cop who's been on the job 20 years and never been to IAD and I'll show you a cop who probably wasn't doing his job. People complain about cops all the time for reasons too many to list here.