Do criminals go to completely empty fields often? Do they find themselves in areas with no other people around? The one area where innocent people are likely to not be around between… say 8am-3pm M-F is? A residential area. Look at heat maps of suburban cities and how they basically completely lose population during the day. The one major business park I live by causes the city of 100k to nearly double in population during those working hours.
I’m not saying that each situation couldn’t call for something more tactical regarding apprehension, but considering the hour and day served it at least wasn’t during a time when people were likely to be around. There really aren’t a lot of areas in a major metro like Charlotte where you could safely serve a warrant without innocent people being around.
You’re literally arguing over cops being shot. They did their job. It sucks they died, and I hope their families get support and help, but had this been innocent people this would have been a massive fuck up.
It’s not a ridiculous concept, it’s one that’s been tried and failed. Do you want innocent people hurt, or do you want the guys wearing body armor and with guns to be the ones that (potentially) get hurt. The risk is generally a lot less for them to get hurt than civilians. Your point only makes sense if there was only the one person doing this, and even then it doesn’t matter. This was the safest alternative to what would have happened if this had been served elsewhere save for an empty field. Police tactics learn from mistakes (mostly because the FBI puts this all together and makes them learn it). Here’s what happened in 86 when the FBI tried to arrest two known felons in an open field: Link
Don’t act like a victim when you’re simply ignorant and should just listen first before speaking.
Do criminals go to completely empty fields often? Do they find themselves in areas with no other people around? The one area where innocent people are likely to not be around between… say 8am-3pm M-F is? A residential area. Look at heat maps of suburban cities and how they basically completely lose population during the day. The one major business park I live by causes the city of 100k to nearly double in population during those working hours.
I’m not saying that each situation couldn’t call for something more tactical regarding apprehension, but considering the hour and day served it at least wasn’t during a time when people were likely to be around. There really aren’t a lot of areas in a major metro like Charlotte where you could safely serve a warrant without innocent people being around.
You’re literally arguing over cops being shot. They did their job. It sucks they died, and I hope their families get support and help, but had this been innocent people this would have been a massive fuck up.
I was arguing that if the cops did it somewhere else, they wouldn’t have died. But apparently that’s too ridiculous a concept for most people.
It’s not a ridiculous concept, it’s one that’s been tried and failed. Do you want innocent people hurt, or do you want the guys wearing body armor and with guns to be the ones that (potentially) get hurt. The risk is generally a lot less for them to get hurt than civilians. Your point only makes sense if there was only the one person doing this, and even then it doesn’t matter. This was the safest alternative to what would have happened if this had been served elsewhere save for an empty field. Police tactics learn from mistakes (mostly because the FBI puts this all together and makes them learn it). Here’s what happened in 86 when the FBI tried to arrest two known felons in an open field: Link
Don’t act like a victim when you’re simply ignorant and should just listen first before speaking.