Basford is now off the force and facing criminal charges – not for taking down an armed, violent felon without using lethal force, but for filing a misconduct complaint against an erstwhile colleague.
Sounds a lot like that Dorner chap from L.A., doesn't it?
Further proof that there is no such thing as a good cop, at least in any department large enough that people in other states have ever heard of it. If they weren't badge toting felons, they'd have been fired before their probationary periods expired.
A long time back a friend encouraged me to join the CHP. But, knowing I had a hot temper and little tolerance of fools, I declined... I was afraid I'd become what I most despise in cops.
I was young and rather stupid about a great many things... Thank God I was sufficiently smart enough to recognize my own weaknesses, and say "no."
Isn't it funny how the groups like the gun banners trust the police to protect and defend us, yet case after case exists of policing refusing to do just that because most of them are curs. They are me badass when ten of them are tackling some young woman or grandma who might have marijuana, but when it is someone who can fight back with fists or guns, they suddenly care about overtime and other excuses.
So the police that are too scared to go into neighborhoods are going to be the same ones who go door to door and disarm the tens of millions of gun owners? Yeah, right. If a few dozen Mexican gang angers scare them into submission, what about several million military vets who know how to shoot and know tactics far better than the Barney fifes playing dress up? This is even more proof of how ridiculous the gun banner fantasy of mass confiscation is! The first couple cops who got shot would lead to the police demanding someone else do it, if they even did any confiscation attempts, which I doubt.
95 percent of cops can't fight and can't shoot. This is just more proof of our "highly trained" public servants in action.
@Anonymous: "95 percent of cops can't fight and can't shoot."
Overwhelming numbers will generally make up for any such deficiencies. You rarely fight just one, and should you win the first round, they'll just come at you with more in the second.
And they have overwhelming numbers now, but will not if a mass confiscation attempt is made. That is sort of my point. The police looked cowardly and foolish in Boston, LA, Nevada, and in countless stories like this one.
Guess what happens if they try to go door to door?
Perhaps your readers should review and read both the movie and the book "SERPICO". The story of a good cop, 40 years ago, trying to do his job and do it without being corrupt, in the New York Police Department.
Frank Serpico....he fellow officers even tried to murder him.
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Basford is now off the force and facing criminal charges – not for taking down an armed, violent felon without using lethal force, but for filing a misconduct complaint against an erstwhile colleague.
Sounds a lot like that Dorner chap from L.A., doesn't it?
Further proof that there is no such thing as a good cop, at least in any department large enough that people in other states have ever heard of it. If they weren't badge toting felons, they'd have been fired before their probationary periods expired.
Why would any man with a soul become a cop? They'll damn sure lose it.
A long time back a friend encouraged me to join the CHP. But, knowing I had a hot temper and little tolerance of fools, I declined... I was afraid I'd become what I most despise in cops.
I was young and rather stupid about a great many things... Thank God I was sufficiently smart enough to recognize my own weaknesses, and say "no."
Isn't it funny how the groups like the gun banners trust the police to protect and defend us, yet case after case exists of policing refusing to do just that because most of them are curs. They are me badass when ten of them are tackling some young woman or grandma who might have marijuana, but when it is someone who can fight back with fists or guns, they suddenly care about overtime and other excuses.
So the police that are too scared to go into neighborhoods are going to be the same ones who go door to door and disarm the tens of millions of gun owners? Yeah, right. If a few dozen Mexican gang angers scare them into submission, what about several million military vets who know how to shoot and know tactics far better than the Barney fifes playing dress up? This is even more proof of how ridiculous the gun banner fantasy of mass confiscation is! The first couple cops who got shot would lead to the police demanding someone else do it, if they even did any confiscation attempts, which I doubt.
95 percent of cops can't fight and can't shoot. This is just more proof of our "highly trained" public servants in action.
@Anonymous: "95 percent of cops can't fight and can't shoot."
Overwhelming numbers will generally make up for any such deficiencies. You rarely fight just one, and should you win the first round, they'll just come at you with more in the second.
Jimmy,
And they have overwhelming numbers now, but will not if a mass confiscation attempt is made. That is sort of my point. The police looked cowardly and foolish in Boston, LA, Nevada, and in countless stories like this one.
Guess what happens if they try to go door to door?
Perhaps your readers should review and read both the movie and the book "SERPICO". The story of a good cop, 40 years ago, trying to do his job and do it without being corrupt, in the New York Police Department.
Frank Serpico....he fellow officers even tried to murder him.
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