"Sigh" Why am I the one that needs to point this out to you? I even have to point it out to another PO.
Before a car is dispatched to a disturbance call a dispatcher "always" asks the caller if the person involved is violent, on drugs/alcohol, or armed. So what if this lady, knowing full well he was several of the above, Lied to the dispatcher and said he wasnt? As women often do to protect some schmuck who is beating them. Knowing full well he WAS both violent and high? Should she be held liable then?
And thats my point. All any of you, or me, know about this case is the very little the Lawyers have released to the press, or the very little they released to justify charges. Nothing is really known until there is some kind of Discovery motion and even then finding the truth is often futile.
But your juries full of your peers think nothing of giving away billions of $$ for every scumbag lifer criminal that suffers an injury after picking a fight with the police. Haha , make me laugh more. The saddest thing about talking to brainwashed people is they dont even know they have been manipulated. If you have created this system where anyone can sue anyone for anything then that right belongs to everyone. Even if they are wearing perma-press. This PO went thru a traumatic event and deserves the benefit of the doubt until the actual facts are heard.
Thats the problem with these cop threads. They descend into pizzing matches for everyone that ever got a ticket, got pinched, or a DUI. Not a happy event for them, and God knows not their fault, so why not spend the rest of their lives pizzing on the Police? And even if you didnt every GD news story about the Police is negative, cause thats what sells news, and History has shown us public opinion is very easy to manipulate. Even in a so called free society.
Cap there are times when you have to weigh your safety against the danger to the caller. If he's a deputy help might be minutes away, or many minutes, and you have to make the call whether to go in alone or not. Dont go in and she gets hurt or killed and your screwed. Go in alone and you get hurt or killed and, obviously, your screwed. Either way the mind screwed public will probably bad mouth you. We usually go in, even alone, cause we took the job to serve and protect even at the risk of our own.
Ive lost two friends to gun grabbers at disturbance calls. PM me and I'll send you their pages at "Officer Down". One good friend was killed by a woman who grabbed his gun and shot him in the face. He had been a gunner on a river boat in 'nam and saw more action then anybody here so tell me how it could never happen to you. Ive had offenders try and grab mine 3 separate times. Been shot at 4 times. Cant sit and play the game for long cause I went down a flight of stairs with a wife beater once. I couldnt begin to count all the violent/armed fools Ive had to deal with.
My advice to this young Deputy would be to drop the law suite and become a fireman. Everyone likes firemen. I bet if it was a fireman suing so many of you wouldnt be frothing.
