Here's an after action report on a shooting in Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Police OIS - 6700 South Madison St (8/28/22). It's also a much less pleasant society to live in. This is a seismic shift, and one that's really hard for a lot of older, reflexively back-the-blue types to get their head around.
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So you get police forces full of Tommy Tacticals who get their little pee-pees hard by being a bully with a badge, Debbie Diversity-Hires who don't know the difference between a taser and a pistol and Carl Cowards who stand in a hallway for an hour washing their hands while some lunatic shoots a couple of dozen school children. (Again, generally speaking, and mostly about the role they are expected to fill in society. Their job is to punish non-orthodoxy, to meet quotas and most of all to keep people cowed to make sure that OBEY. Now, however, cops are enforcers and bureaucrats.
In short, they were expected to be paladins, and were accorded respect and honor commensurate with those expectations (I'm talking generally here, I know there have always been bad cops). Yes, their job involved enforcement duties, but they were expected to be as fair as possible, to demonstrate judgment and restraint (kid w/ a six pack "Go home kid, don't let me catch you again") and, most of all, to run to the sound of gunfire. Traditionally, the role in society that police filled was to protect and serve. The bigger problem we have is the nature of policing in this country. But unavoidable at times due to the fact that we're all fallible human beings. The fact that it was the little girl and not an attacker makes this a tragedy. If police are engaged in an active firefight with the occupant of a vehicle, and someone dressed in tactical gear breaks from that vehicle and charges towards them, it is reasonable to assume that they are under attack and to engage that target. Here's my absolutely and completely non-expert opinion, based entirely on the reports of the incident in the media: Tragedy. He got in a shootout with police, and she broke cover and was killed.
The suspect was her father, who had kidnapped her. First of all, this tragedy.ġ5-year-old at center of Amber Alert killed in shootout between deputies, suspect on 15 Freeway
Still, happy anniversary TNG.įor some reason, a lot of cop stuff landed on my content list this week. Then DS9 came along and blew all of them away. The original ST was conceived as “Wagon Train to the stars”, it was about, to coin a phrase, truth, justice and the American way, and how those values could stand up when tested in the crucible of space exploration. In 1987 I was just geeked to have a new Star Trek show, but as time has passed I realized that TNG is not my favorite iteration of Trek. Why don't you share them in the comments?ģ5 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered. I think the list suffers a bit from some recency bias, but I'm sure that many of you will have your own opinions. Hurricane Ian Diminishes In Intensity to Category 2, But Sweeps Over Central Florida with Massive Flooding ĭeSantis: "Basically a 500 Year Flood Event" Top of Mind: The Leftwing Propaganda Media Actually Asks Karine Jean-Pierre What Was Going on In the Demented "President's" Mind When He Called Out "Where's Jackie?," Searching For a Dead Woman's Ghost You're Not Going to Believe This, But Someone Failed to Position Kamala Harris for Success at the Korean DMZįox News: Final Revision of Second Quarter GDP Is Negative 0.6%, "Cementing Start of Recession"īiden Now Blames the Hurricane and Mom and Pop Gas Stations for the High Gas Prices His Strategy of Deliberate Scarcity and Suppression of Oil Production Is Causing The Propaganda Press Refused To Air Any Coverage of It Whatsoever, Or To Even Mention It. The "President" Attempted a Seance With a Ghost on Live Televison. Spooktacular Eerie Halloween-in-September Cafe
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