Your animosity towards TPD is well noted.
You keep saying that, ignoring my well-established apprehension of
any individual or entity that exercises power disproportionate to their accountability. Why you choose to take it personally when the conversation involves TPD is puzzling, and unhealthy to friendly discussion.
If you had any hard info showing that reducing the number patrolmen had no effect on crime you would have presented it. I just called you on it.
Im afraid your victory may be a hollow one, since I only agreed with another poster's observation that the crime wave the FOP promised didnt immediately appear after the layoffs.
So it's her fault a drunk was trying to drive off and he is now her victim ? WoW, that might the sh!Tiest comment ever in my book. Glad you or someone you care about wasnt in one of those cars (or a bystander) the driver was running into before she got to him.
You are walking down the street.
As you pass me, I suddenly stick out my foot in such a way that you end up unable to avoid stepping on it.
As I roll in the street wailing loudly, people gather around to hear my tearful story of how your brutal assault has crushed my foot.
You have injured me.
...there were witnesses who saw me collapse in pain, and a bruise.
I can legally take action against you on that alone.
Yet none of the material evidence nor witness accounts reflect that my status as victim was engineered, that my injury at your hands was precipitated by a calculated tactic on my part.
There is no reasonable expectation that a person of average strength can stop a motor vehicle by grasping a steering wheel through a driver's window. Such a reasonable person would know that such an action on their part would likely result in harm to themselves, and if such harm were imminent, would be immediately remedied by releasing their grasp of the moving vehicle.
Any other course of action would either be unreasonable, or a calculated tactic.
The cop that was arrested by fellow officers for being drunk and threatening people with a gun, had left his previous department after his use of this tactic resulted in the death of a person in police custody, even though it was publicly presented that his actions were "legal".
