No, this is not a joke.
First, read the story from the LAPD.com/blog:
Police Commission tells officers to run away, or else
By LAPPL Board of Directors on 09/21/2016 @ 04:44 PM
Run away. If a police officer is confronted by a suspect with a weapon, those entrusted to set policies for the Police Department believe officers should run away. That’s the recent finding from the Los Angeles Police Commission which has turned Monday morning quarterbacking into a weekly agenda item at the three-ring circus they preside over every Tuesday morning.
In the Commission’s most recent decision on an officer-involved shooting, in which a suspect charged at two officers swinging an 8 to 9-inch knife, they faulted the officer for not “redeploying” to “create distance.” In plain English: the officer didn’t run away.
Stop right there. This is not unlike the “duty to retreat theory” some states utilize to adjudge whether or not to charge you, a person inside your own home, with a crime should you use deadly force against an intruder.
That is to say, one of the critical questions asked will be: “did you retreat to the furthest place away from the intruder and there were no other options or areas of escape, before using any amount of force as a last resort?”
If the answer is “no,” in some states with no “stand your ground” laws you may be prosecuted for using force against an intruder. In your own home.
Here is a vitally important paragraph in the article:
Chief Beck, who has absolutely no problem finding fault with officers, agreed with these officers’ actions. The Commission, with a grand total of zero years of experience in law enforcement, overruled the Chief’s decision. The Commissioners created an alternative set of facts that acknowledged that the officer was right to believe his life was in jeopardy but found fault with the officer shooting the knife-wielding suspect because the officer should have run away. Pathetic.
“But found fault with the officer shooting the knife-wielding suspect because the officer should have run away.”
The last paragraph is the most critical:
The message the Los Angeles Police Commission is sending to officers confronted with a violent and dangerous suspect is clear: You can save your life or save your job, but you cannot do both. You choose.
This decision will be one of a rapidly-growing number of decisions emanating from civilian police boards around the nation when dealing with the application of police use of force issues.
Citizens of the United States, prepare yourselves for the ramifications.
BZ
Just when you think you have seen the most stupid thing possible, here comes something even worse! How low can these scumbags go? Who in Hell would want to become a cop these days, especially in such a screwed up city as that? Let’s see if they sing a different tune when some kind of crap happens to them!
Even in states that do NOT have a stand your ground law, also called the Castle Doctrine, this should NEVER include the police. Imagine if you told Firemen to run away when a fire got too dangerous. Imagine if your doctor quit operating on you because the cancer tumor was bigger than he thought.
That is the JOB of the police, to go in and stop crime that the average citizen could not. I can only hope that one day, when a cop “runs away” from a knife wielding suspect, that the suspect immediately runs off and rapes and murders one of the commissioners who set this rule….or maybe their daughter or wife. I know it seems cruel, but that is the only way for them to see the BIG MISTAKE they are forcing on us. I mean, there is a greater chance that said armed scumbag is going to kill someone, and I don’t want it to be me or mine…so might as well be the person who allowed this scumbag to continue to exist to begin with.
How long before they outlaw law enforcement altogether because being arrested is offensive to criminals? How long before they outlaw prison due to the mental anguish it causes rapists and murderers? This is absolutely stupid. Just like lawmakers who have never owned a gun making supposed “common sense” gun laws, having people who have NEVER worn a badge tell officers what to do. What’s next, having a commander in chief of the armed forced never having served in the military?
This is a stupid law, but these idiots pass it because the end result will NOT affect them. It will hurt the public at large, and there is no doubt in my mind that innocent people we be harmed due to this logic. But hey, as long as it doesn’t affect the higher ups, you know, our betters, then who cares.
And as for cops, well, okay, they will stop arresting bad guys. I am a retired cop, and I can tell you that cops will only enforce the law when the public wants it to. The moment cops start getting criticized for every thing they do, and Monday morning quarter-backed on every bad incident, well, they will just sit back and take it easy, counting off the days til retirement and that sweet pension kicks in.
Of course, this is the next logical step in liberal evolution. In the days of my great-grandfather, if you committed a serious crime, you were arrested, convicted and hung within 30 days. And if you were a punk, well, there was a back alley with a lesson for you in your future. Then, we started doing away with the death sentence, then prison sentences reduced, and now, it takes our justice system 20-30 years to put to death a murderer. All while the families of the victims live in turmoil, often dying of old age before the scumbag that killed their loved one is put to death.
Then came rodney king, and cops were attacked and criminals gained even more rights. And slowly the cops were disarmed and the ROE were set in favor of the criminal.
Law enforcement should be like making a hamburger. You know where hamburgers come from, but you don’t want to know the specifics . You know criminals and scumbags are being taken care of to keep us safe, but you shouldn’t know the specifics.
Now I do agree that there are some real shitbag cops out there, and they need to be taken care of. Sadly, like teachers though, it is impossible to get rid of them due to unions protecting these asswads. So, police depts are left having to circle the wagons and protect them for fear of being sued by that officer and getting a nice big chunk of the city budget that could have been used for something better.
It all comes down to leadership and public opinion. And as long as these two things tell the cops to do or not do their jobs, the cops will comply. I am sure that we will see a huge increase in violent crime due to this idiotic rule. And you know who will suffer the worst. The same stupid morons that cried out against the cops to begin with. The same “friends and neighbors” that protected their own, will be left to deal with him. I know this because I have learned that criminals are pretty lazy. Most of these scumbags will not go very far to commit crime. They will break into their neighbors house or rob their fellow citizens two streets over and that is how they will make their living. Very seldom do they go to another neighborhood where first, it’s really far away and not close to home base, and two, they can’t blend in or get away as easily. So, the future victims of the thugs that get protected by those in that neighborhood will be themselves. I hope that made sense. And you know, cops are fine with it. Kinda like a perfect outcome for them. They don’t have to work as hard, the people that rallied against them to stop doing their jobs will suffer the consequences in increased crime activity, home values suffers, blight takes over, and the neighborhood ends up committing suicide. For the cops, this place will become a”no go” zone, and response times will be greatly increased (cops will have to finish their coffee before responding to that burglary in progress). Those that demand the cops not do their job will get what they asked for…and this will not like it one bit.
What I find insane, is that it is these same people that demand cops clean up crime in the shithole neighborhood, but when the cops arrest black criminal after black criminal, they cry out racism. As if somehow, it’s the fault of the cops that the criminal was black. It’s almost as if they want the cops to find a white guy who was committing all the crime in the area. But you see, not even white criminals will go into a black neighborhood to commit crime….it’s that big of a shithole for them.
So, schadenfreud all around and the only one that will suffer is the citizens that whined in the first place. And slowly, every gung-ho rookie that wants to arrest all the bad guys, will quickly learn to pace himself, and eventually no longer give a shit about those who he was hired to protect, but are really, his biggest enemy. Not the bad guy. Cops are NOT afraid of being carried by six, they are more afraid of being tried by 12. They like their jobs, and they have a family to support, and if keeping that job means letting criminal go free, well so be it. He doesn’t live there. He lives in a nice neighborhood..so screw em.
All I can say is that the law abiding citizens of LA need to purchase more guns and ammo and prepare to defend themselves. If I were a LEO, I would not respond if one of those board members had a problem. Insanity prevails in the land of fruits and nuts.
my guess is that the rest of the country has just gained a new pool of good police officers from which to recruit.
Hoo boy… That’s not going to end well.
Charlie Beck has a “board” problem.
Time for him to retire ASAP.
Let the Board put their “pet” in there, and I assure you they will have a humongous
race riot!
LA needs one to get all the blacks killed or jailed.