TylerF

State Police here are full service, not just highway patrol. Call 911 here, a city cop, county deputy or trooper could respond.

Yes, because all American LEOs just look to shoot down everyone possible and see themselves as Judge Dredd. Ridiculous.

I have to lol when people talk about use of force, laws, and ramifications for use. Just like when departments or cities create "Citizen review boards" for police officers. Also, as far as I can tell, no-one here has really used a handgun, particularly under high stress. Adrenaline is a bitch. It's not like the movies. The real world is messy. I'm a member of verified LE forums. Yes, really, cops will be quitting Cali agencies if this goes through. In some cities where higher levels of force expectations have already been created by department policy, proactive policing has tanked. The same will happen in California. What's the incentive to do your job if you feel every action will possibly be used to get you in trouble? Hyperbole or not, that's how many cops feel about doing their job.

Prepare to have a mass exodus of cops from California. Stupid.

Lol. My county is 550+ square miles, ~30,000 people and some nights we have one car on. Budget lol. American LE doesn't function like European LE. Go out west and you'll may have 2-3 Deputies for thousands of square miles.

Some states Reserves go through full academies. In MI they do not, but they do not have full LEO authority, and cannot operate on their own.

Lol. Tactics. Sure.

I'm sorry you got a 10 over ticket on your birthday. But the way you write that does imply you were caught speeding. If that, and a couple possible traffic situations is the worse contact you've had with LE, is that really enough to hate not just an entire profession, but the people too? Seems rather, silly... It reads to me you just don't like cops because you hold anti-government biases, rather than actual mis-givings. I'm not going to change your mind, but I don't feel their is much substance to your convictions. "Trained liers", "bullies in uniform", "serve the politicians", "boot licker" et al are just parrotted talking points from the cop-block/PINAC crowd. Don't just retort that the "Supreme Court said..." You need to look up the public duty and special duty doctrine. It's Tort law. I'm going to break it to you, cops get fired all the time for failure to act or to preform their duties. Law Enforcement in the United States is not one giant monolithic entity, and it's an unreasonable position to paint with a broad brush.

If you look at the number of interactions Law Enforcement has with the public on a daily basis, yeah, it's a minuscule amount. I'm not going to tell you cops all are perfect, they're not. We are humans, we are not infallible. But to distrust all Law Enforcement because what you see in the news, is not a rational position. Have you ever had a bad experience with Law Enforcement personally? I'm genuinely curious. I don't think it's right to lump in all Muslims as the same either. But we are talking about a profession, not a religion. Conflating the two topics is a fallacy.

It annoys me, that with 800,000+ LEO's in this this country, that people can easily paint them as all bad from a few incidents that the media latches onto. There are tens of thousands upon thousands of interactions that occur daily between law enforcement and the general public. To say it's not seeing the whole picture is an understatement. It's completely disingenuous. Unfortunately, the media and the internet has made many people armchair quarterback experts on law enforcement. It's like when people say cops should go back to the "old-school" ways, without really understanding what "old-school" means...

Neither of us were there, so it's hard to comment on the details of the situation that occurred, and I see no-where that the back-up officer arrived and just shot the guy. That's just pure conjecture. Even the Officer who got fired in question admits: $175K is a lot for just "go-away" money, so yeah, I agree there was probably some malice in the firing. But I will also say, when you're on a probationary period, you can be let go or fired pretty much at will. I also know there are many, many agencies out there that have general orders against cowardice or failing to act. As with everything, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

We'd get jammed up if we tased someone on an elevated position. In regards to the fitness of the female officer: Adrenaline is a bitch, especially when you're wearing 10+ pounds of gear and a vest.

The media rarely tells the whole story, or it gets misrepresented. I find it silly to argue "what should of happened" using the benefit of hindsight, when none of us were there. I'm going to fall in line with the Prosecutors office, who had the time to investigate using witnesses and the people who were there, and access to evidence that none of us, or the media, has.

Less-lethal weapons should only be used in high-risk situations when lethal cover is available to the deploying officer. I've seen tasers fail just as many times as successful deployments.

You certainly must know far more details than the Prosecutors Office that investigated the case, or must of been there, because you apparently know more than what has been released to the public, too be making all these broad generalizations and to be able to discern the motives and actions of all involved.