blueronin wrote:

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The officer needs to face charges.

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Interesting .... Why so ???

 

cool ... are LEO's trained to handled such situations ???

Blue's right.

Being a cop is a lot like any other job, except with major consequences. Screw up on a construction job, you can go back and fix it. If you screw up like those two did, it's permanent. We get issued equipment, but a good cop thinks past the accident investigation, the traffic stop, or just taking a report. In my equipment bag, I have detailed maps of the city, an up to date Garmen, binoculars, latex gloves, a small high quality digital camera, extra memory cards, batteries, spare mags, spare cuffs, riot cuffs, a large crime scene investigation kit, tape measure, multi tool, phillips and flat screwdrivers, a scanner, cell phone, spiral notebooks, legal pads, clipboards, cheap bic pens, and about a half dozen or so other things.

 We have an investigator that was involved in a bad auto accident. He can't work the road anymore but he's a very smart man. He adjusted his tactics from a patrolman to investigator. He had a case of stolen farm equipment. After checking around town he came to the conclusion that it was someone from out of town. He surmised that loading a trailer with that much equipment might have made the thieves thirsty. So he checked with watering holes and stores in town, then worked his way out in all directions. About five miles out, there's a convenient store-gas station. Bingo!!! A clerk remembered two guys that stopped with a trailer with the kind of equipment described. One came in and bought beer. The clerk carded him, and remembered two important things. 1-He had a drivers license out of Covington County Alabama, and 2-His last name, because the clerk had family in Alabama with the same last name!! My point is: To be a decent cop takes very little extra effort. To be a great cop takes extra. Sometimes, you have to think a little outside the box, without violating department policies.

 In my department in Ohio, many of the guys carried 9mm Beretta pistols. But the ammo we were issued was crap. We all went out and bought Winchester +P+ ammo. No where did it say that we had to carry department issued ammo!! I kept my department issued Mossberg 590 loaded with Federal 1 oz slugs and Federal OO buck, staggard. The M16 was loaded with Hornady TAP. I spent money on stuff I trusted. I'm slways asking "What if"... I read several police periodarticles, listen to guys like LC, because I know he speaks from a vast experience. It's one of the many reason I respect older people. They made it this far....

lc335 wrote:

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Believe you'd have made a good'ern SU........Integrity is a huge part of it, and you got that covered.

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 And then some.