The Los Angeles Police Commission approved a sweeping set of reforms Tuesday aimed at getting officers to hold their fire.
One of the reforms requires officers to exhaust all non-lethal means before shooting, and practice de-escalation during incidents. The department already teaches this in its academy for new recruits, but enacting it as policy means that officers could be disciplined for failing to see a reasonable alternative to shooting.
“The commission has become nothing more than a group of pandering apologists in support of misinformed professional protesters,” the union’s board of directors said in a statement. “These latest batch of proposals are more of the same, solutions in search of a problem.”
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Please wait Mr. criminal, with your gun pointed at me, while I run through my checklist to see if I can shoot you before you shoot me.
One wonders, how many cops lives this will cause to be lost….
And how FEW people will want to become a cop cause of it.
Let’s connect the dots:
(1)Regulate (water down) the measures that local law enforcement may utilize when confronting armed, combative criminals=
(2)embolden/enlarge the national criminal population=
(3)an increasing probability by current administration to initiate their federal policing agency ideology=
(4)answers the common Joes earlier befuddlement as to the Feds both past and recent buildup of weaponry and ammunition within all levels of government to include tactical vehicles and detention/internment centers.
All they wait for now…. a reason.
This will mean less police presence in Black neighborhoods, so there will be more blacks that are killed in the inner cities, because of black on black crime. Liberalism at its finest!
This will mean fewer police officers on the job.
What other occupation requires it’s employees to behave in a manner to increase their risk of injury or death.
Where is O.S.H.A.? Let’s require Iron workers to abandon their fall arresting gear until they are actually falling, chemist to remove their protective eye wear until the chemicals are splashing towards them.
Police with pom-poms! That’s where they should begin with suspects. Who could possibly feel threatened by an officer cheering them on while they commit their crimes?
Get ready for ” More Black lives and all Cops Get Killed, so Black Lives matter.” just so Democrat social engineering fools can “FEEL GOOD” and the expense of more people getting dead. Until those blacks duped and confused by the media understand that they and they alone through their own actions and ambitions, define just how much their lives matter,,,,JUST LIKE WHITE, YELLOW, RED, Malatto, or Space alien matter. So much for equal protection under the law as sanity and workable solutions again goes under the bus, by fools who believe all people have good intentions that always end in bad results. Remember Obama disarming the border patrol and arming them with bean bag throwers? Talk about unfit to govern !
That is a great question.. Where IS OSHA on all of this insanity? Heck if a different workforce told their workers “wait till danger is on you before taking measures to protect yourself” they would be fined out the wazoo…
Remember that for liberals Democrats and media ,Black life only matters to them when they get killed by a white police officer and the reasons why don’t matter.
It certainly hasn’t to the 3000 or so killed in Chi-raq just this year alone.
FYI: If Hillary wins next month, you can be absolutely assured that this attack on law enforcement is just the very tiniest tip of the iceberg. Lock and load, folks, because 2A will be next.
Time to stock up on plenty of AMMO. First thing Corrupt Communist B–ch Clinton will do by executive order is ban the ar-15 all 5.56 Ammo and any handgun magazines over 10-rounds. Corrupt Hillary will bring on a 2nd American revolution
The LAPD has to be stupid to stay on the job. If it were me they would have their badge back in a heart beat!
Perhaps that is part of the goal of all this stupidity. To get more and more white cops who quit, so
A) they can whine about not having enough recruits, so ‘we need to lower the requirements to fill the vacancies
B) not have to pay out the retirement for all those cops who quit.
This will also lead to an increase in violence. Those who are violent, will feel emboldened to provoke more violent situations. The result of this will be that more innocent people will become victims.
No amount of ridiculous guidelines are going to overrule an officer’s common sense. Therefore, when someone appears to be threatening life and limb, the officer will act out of self-preservation and shoot. These “Black Thugs Matter” criminals will soon be eliminated!!
Unfortunately, we’ve already seen an example of the opposite. A few days ago in Chicago (or suburb) a female officer allowed herself to be beaten and have her head pounded into concrete because she was afraid to use her gun and cause a riot.
While officers have to make a life or death decision in seconds, critics can take days, weeks or months to determine if they made the right choice.
It would only be fair to recreate the situation for these critics and force them to make the correct choice.
Very tru rick. we have already seen this put two officers in hospital, cause they were SCARED to shoot the thug attacking them, for fear of it starting off yet another black thug lies matter riot..
Tell that to the female officer in St. Louis who didn’t shoot and survived only by luck. She has severe head injuries.
She said she didn’t shoot because she was afraid of the publicity. The TASER did not work, I guess the PCP kept the guy from being calm.
Correction
Female police officer in Chicago, not St. Louis.
This PC nonsense has gotten so ridiculous. If I were an LA cop, I’d move. Turn it over to the natives and get the hell out of Dodge!!
This is the same kind of thing that was done to our military with the new ROEs (rules of engagement). By the time you’re allowed to “shoot back” it’s already too late. Deaths and permanent injuries have vastly increased among our troops under these ROEs, and the same thing will happen in the LAPD.
You are DEAD RIGHT, columba. Casualties and injuries among our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq QUADRUPLED on Obama’s watch, compared to Bush’s–because of his IDIOTIC Rules of Engagement designed to minimize the casualties of his Muzzie pals and MAXIMIZE those on OUR side.
That’s what happens when you install a MUSLIM TRAITOR in the White House as President!
It’s also why time after time, enemies GOT AWAY , cause the troops were prohibited by those RoE’s from engaging them, cause they used human shields and the like.. Or command kept dithering about providing air or artillery support cause of “too much potential for collateral damage” or “the enemy is hold up in a mosque, we don’t want to blow it up for fear of turning locals against us”..
AND THE higher ups wondered why so many military HATED going over to the sand box….!!!>!?!?
more stupidity and craziness by Command Personnel and politicians. Forget the P.C. B S and get your heads out of your backsides, please.
A cop will be dead by the time he/she putters around with lazers & whatnot. BLM is an org. of & for Black thugs. They love acting the hero & striking theatrical poses because in reality they are shallow & useless. For some reason BLM feels entitled to disregard the laws & legitimate police commands because they claim they’re oppressed. People who follow BLM are their own biggest problem. And some chicken poop Whites cater to this nonsense.
Why doesn’t BLM spend their efforts on recruiting Blacks as police officers for their neighborhoods? Most likely they know that a Black Officer will respond the same way as White Officers do.
So, look for the death rate among LA cops to go up exponentially–if they can even FIND cops willing to go into those high-crime HELLHOLES that the “inner cities” of ALL large urban areas in the United States have become?
It is ASININE, at best, to expect cops to go into areas where OPEN SEASON has been declared on them, and FORBID them to defend themselves. How STUPID is that? Only a LIBERAL would come up with that “solution”. Only proves what I’ve ALWAYS said–that liberals are INSANE.
Especially when we have open season ON cops lives.. How many cops this year alone, ahve been shot by black thugs ambushing them??
I wonder if the same rules will apply for the bodyguards of elected officials and judges?
As always, no it will never apply to the elite..
Hey, if the person is hopped-up on drugs tasers don’t work. That gives the person time to stab or shoot the officer or grab his/her weapon and shoot them. I understand the LAPD’s need to make an honest and published effort to reduce deadly encounters but putting our officers in unnecessary danger at the hands of seriously deranged criminals seems like a decision that needs extensive work.
I cannot imagine many police officers will stay in the LAPD. The LA citizens loss will be the gang leaders and the drug lord’s gain. The next PC move that the Progressive Socialistic Democrats will want is for our Soliders to wait until a Jhiaidst pushes the button on their suicide vest, or aims a AK47 or its kin…yep, wait until they have the blade at your neck before you react. I have family in LA….hope they move.
With how emasculated the obama admin left the Rules of Engagement, its ALMOST at that level now..
Cops there should refuse to work in the high crime areas of the city and then have a department wide case of the blue flu for a month.
LA is LaLa Land. Maybe Hollywood can get busy and invent a real Phaser with a stun setting. But even Captain irk used Pasers to disintegrate aliens. I guess that leaves no evidence, so it didn’t happen.
Black Live Matter as long as they are not wearing a blue uniform or some other distinctive dress.
That might work in LA, but not everywhere in CA.