....“It’s a very troubling trend where officers are being put at greater risk than ever before,” said Craig W. Floyd, the group’s chairman. “Many of these criminals are outgunning our police officers. We’re seeing criminals with high-velocity clips on their guns.”....
These are hardened and lifetime criminals. They are prepared to kill the police because they are guilty and will be headed for prison.
I thought it might be related to the federal crackdown on organized crime, but, serving a warrant on a sex offender isn't about organized crime.
Body armor. I don't know what else in the short term is going to answer the immediate problem.
Weapon confiscation with Swat Teams and plenty of body armor. The police cars have to be beefed up and there needs to ba a 'rethink' on how these officers are actually performing their duties.
Miami is known to have higher rates of drug issues as well. These criminals are not 'simply' breaking the law, this is their livelihood. The criminals have nothing to lose and we have everything to lose.
This could be a 'secondary' level of criminals that were 'in service' to the organized crime, too.
AND THEY ARE HUNGRY AND DON'T HAVE 'THEIR BOSSES AND PROTECTION' EITHER. THEY THINK 'LYING LOW' WILL PROTECT THEM AND THEY ARE PREPARED TO KILL.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE WAS SEEKING A SAFE HARBOR UNTIL HIS GIRLFRIEND GOT ANGRY.
When police officers are out gunned and the economy is stressed, a desperate person sees no reason to NOT turn to crime as an answer and 'make that decision' conscienously. In other words, shooting through an attic is well contemplated and a 'readyness' to kill if law enforcement showed up. These officers are NOT prepared for that level of assault when they are trying to make arrests.
If I were a mayor and the 'action' was getting this tenuous for my officers, they would be chilling and patrolling and catching up on paperwork and testimony to prosecutors until the body armor arrived. In the meantime, I'd have my SWAT leaders coming up with training sessions and TACTICAL PLANS to carry out arrests.
Citizens have to come forward as well. In other words, when these warrants are being issued and the officers are taking the complaints they HAVE TO ASK about the kind of conditions they are facing to arrest the individual, too. The complaint might even be a 'set up,' too and I would not dismiss that possiblity. Who is making these complaints. I'd be working on prosecutor warrants before I'd work on civil warrants. Something one knows is real. ANY CHANCE there is something in the 'media' somewhere that brings this under 'one roof' as a plan or a fad or a 'gang' loyalty?
I don't believe these law enforcement bureaus can be too prepared. The criminals are ALREADY PREMEDITATING MURDER before it happens. The guns are making them feel CARELESSLY POWERFUL.
AND.
Get that crap off of the television. They are like lesson plans from the most extremist imaginations in the country.
I like Lawrence Welk reruns on slow days.
Time for the FBI to start taking a look at this mess.
Federal hearings on gun control and bring in the mayors and police captains. They can't protect citizens if they can't protect themselves.
...Mr. Wexler and several senior police officials said they also believed that the shootings reflected a broader lack of respect for authority in American society....
Gee, where have I heard this before?
The Florida State Bureau of Investigation needs to start profiling neighborhoods and making 'no go zones' and strategies to deal with them. These officers need more than 'back-up.' I don't believe anyone can 'over think' this.
Deepest sympathies to the families. Make their memories count. Get this under control.
These are hardened and lifetime criminals. They are prepared to kill the police because they are guilty and will be headed for prison.
I thought it might be related to the federal crackdown on organized crime, but, serving a warrant on a sex offender isn't about organized crime.
Body armor. I don't know what else in the short term is going to answer the immediate problem.
Weapon confiscation with Swat Teams and plenty of body armor. The police cars have to be beefed up and there needs to ba a 'rethink' on how these officers are actually performing their duties.
Miami is known to have higher rates of drug issues as well. These criminals are not 'simply' breaking the law, this is their livelihood. The criminals have nothing to lose and we have everything to lose.
Two officers and a gunman killed in St. Petersburg shootout (click here)
BY ILEANA MORALES, WAVENEY MOORE, JAMAL THALJI AND EMILY NIPPS
St. Petersrburg Times
ST. PETERSBURG -- ST. PETERSBURG - Two St. Petersburg police officers and a gunman were fatally shot and a U.S. marshal was injured early Monday in gunfire that broke out as police tried to serve a domestic battery warrant at a St. Petersburg home.
``Our community has suffered a loss today,'' St. Petersburg police Chief Chuck Harmon said during a somber press conference with Mayor Bill Foster outside Bayfront Medical Center.
Suncoast Benevolent Association President Mark Marland confirmed the fallen officers as Sgt. Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz.
By Monday afternoon, police were able to enter the home where the shooting happened. They confirmed that the shooter, Hydra Lacy Jr., also was dead....
``Our community has suffered a loss today,'' St. Petersburg police Chief Chuck Harmon said during a somber press conference with Mayor Bill Foster outside Bayfront Medical Center.
Suncoast Benevolent Association President Mark Marland confirmed the fallen officers as Sgt. Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz.
By Monday afternoon, police were able to enter the home where the shooting happened. They confirmed that the shooter, Hydra Lacy Jr., also was dead....
This could be a 'secondary' level of criminals that were 'in service' to the organized crime, too.
AND THEY ARE HUNGRY AND DON'T HAVE 'THEIR BOSSES AND PROTECTION' EITHER. THEY THINK 'LYING LOW' WILL PROTECT THEM AND THEY ARE PREPARED TO KILL.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE WAS SEEKING A SAFE HARBOR UNTIL HIS GIRLFRIEND GOT ANGRY.
When police officers are out gunned and the economy is stressed, a desperate person sees no reason to NOT turn to crime as an answer and 'make that decision' conscienously. In other words, shooting through an attic is well contemplated and a 'readyness' to kill if law enforcement showed up. These officers are NOT prepared for that level of assault when they are trying to make arrests.
If I were a mayor and the 'action' was getting this tenuous for my officers, they would be chilling and patrolling and catching up on paperwork and testimony to prosecutors until the body armor arrived. In the meantime, I'd have my SWAT leaders coming up with training sessions and TACTICAL PLANS to carry out arrests.
Citizens have to come forward as well. In other words, when these warrants are being issued and the officers are taking the complaints they HAVE TO ASK about the kind of conditions they are facing to arrest the individual, too. The complaint might even be a 'set up,' too and I would not dismiss that possiblity. Who is making these complaints. I'd be working on prosecutor warrants before I'd work on civil warrants. Something one knows is real. ANY CHANCE there is something in the 'media' somewhere that brings this under 'one roof' as a plan or a fad or a 'gang' loyalty?
I don't believe these law enforcement bureaus can be too prepared. The criminals are ALREADY PREMEDITATING MURDER before it happens. The guns are making them feel CARELESSLY POWERFUL.
AND.
Get that crap off of the television. They are like lesson plans from the most extremist imaginations in the country.
I like Lawrence Welk reruns on slow days.
Time for the FBI to start taking a look at this mess.
Federal hearings on gun control and bring in the mayors and police captains. They can't protect citizens if they can't protect themselves.
...Mr. Wexler and several senior police officials said they also believed that the shootings reflected a broader lack of respect for authority in American society....
Gee, where have I heard this before?
The Florida State Bureau of Investigation needs to start profiling neighborhoods and making 'no go zones' and strategies to deal with them. These officers need more than 'back-up.' I don't believe anyone can 'over think' this.
Deepest sympathies to the families. Make their memories count. Get this under control.
