21st Century policing

[barretcreek]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...d=tmg_share_fb

Of course,if he had done anything he would be in the dock.

[dryheat]

because he had "no protective equipment and no radio,” he has told an inquest.-

And no pistol. It needs to be said. Well, and no guts and no training and he was too old and fat.

There are cameras everywhere. Brits lead. So you have a home movie of the murder.
Masood, is that Eskimo?

[Vern Humphrey]

The man had a duty to act -- regardless. Here in the US, we would call that cowardice.

[Mark in Ottawa]

Vern: I think that it would be called cowardice everywhere. He may have been old and overweight but he was still a trained police officer in a country where police have traditionally not been armed and was presumably trained (at some point) in unarmed combat. In any case, police cars are normally equipped with flashlights and a flashlight can be used as a baton and most men wear leather belts and a leather belt can be a weapon as well (in fact, a lifetime ago when I was in the Canadian army reserves, we were given an unofficial lesson in the use of our web belts as weapons).

[Vern Humphrey]

Yep -- here is a man who has been drawing a paycheck for years, and when the time came to earn it, he crapped out.

[p246]

We call him that guy. That guy is always there when the rest of us wish we were there. I think that guy exists in all occupations, but gets to be infamous in mine. Carry on.

[Vern Humphrey]

Are you defending him?

[togor]

Are you defending him?

Having problems reading? No he's not defending him. He's saying we live in an imperfect world. Everywhere except your ranch apparently.

[dobek]

No weapon?

Isn't his car a "lethal weapon"?

Run his moo slum arse down....

but coward is as coward does...

Steve