Revenge ain’t so sweet when your butt’s sitting in jail.”
- Written in response to aS.C. woman crashing ex-boyfriend’s patrol car as revenge for breaking up with her
http://www.police1.com/bizarre/articles/1634752/
2. Officer Nick Erfle died doing what he loved, sadly leaving behind his wife and two small children.
Later that same day, while most people in our community were sleeping, I was patrolling an Arizona state highway and initiated a stop. The van exited off the highway, then came to a stop. No sooner had I made my approach two Phoenix Police Officers pulled behind my patrol car to back me up. Even though we wore different uniforms we shared the same sadness, and badges with black bands. I felt our loss however strenghthened the bond between us. I let them know I was code 4 and they got back on the road.
Minutes later, as I wrote my subject some coupons, a loud humm came from above with a blinding white light illuminating my stop. Firebird, the Phoenix Police helicopter, was hovering above watching over me like a Guardian Angle. While Firebird lit up my stop another Phoenix Police vehicle pulled in behind me. Now it was two officers from their Gang Unit. Without realizing it I had made my stop two blocks from Officer Erfle’s stop earlier that day.
I wanted to share this experience and my appreciation for all our brothers and sisters in blue, black, tan and green.
On September 19, 2007 we lost one of our family. Please take ten minutes to visit 100club.org to help Nick’s young family. This site has an account set up to help take care of them during this tragic time.
- Written in response to Ariz. officer Eric Erfle fatally shot trying to arrest jaywalker with criminal record
http://www.police1.com/officer-shootings/articles/1355622
3. I hope this clown sits in the chair and frys very slowly for his cop murder. I fell very sorry for the cops family because this is a real tragedy. God bless the fallen officer and his family as well as our brothers and sisters in uniform. Man lets get a federal policy that mandates all departments to have 2 officers in every patrol vehicle on all shifts. Instead of sending money overseas lets help our own with better officer safety policies etc. This losing officers crap needs to stop! If this country was more tough on crime as other countries maybe this kind of cop slaying would stop. Kill a cop in a forign country and see what happens. “NOT PLEASANT”
-Written in response to Ala. officer fatally shot trying to arrest drunk driver
http://www.police1.com/officer-shootings/articles/1641011/
4. To all the holier than thou officers on here that are trying to put the writer down from their plush office jobs, you should get out of the air conditioning, in a uniform and be a cop again.
It is obvious hat you are intentionally misreading the article. I agree with the author, if all you do is look for speeders, than all you will ever do is find speeders. If you go out and look for dope, you will find dope. Just like if you go out and look for DUI’s you’re gonna find DUI’s (you don’t sit and become a “radar ranger” if you are on a DUI squad) The same principle applies to highway drug interdiction.
When I took away my squad’s radars, vascars and lasers, it made them stop for other violations and take a look closer at cars. DUI arrests went thru the roof, drug arrest went up and other criminal arrests went up.....and collisions went down.
It’s always easy to see who the “radar rangers” are because all they do is write a bunch tickets and go home and never do any real authentic police work. There is more to the job than that, or fighting your way to an admin position like so many of the haters seem to be on this site. And for those of you that think that CRIMINAL PROFILING is wrong or bad, beg your superiors to put you back into the academy so you can learn how to be a cop.
-Written in response to an article regarding the ‘7 habits of highly unsuccessful interdiction officers’
http://www.police1.com//drug-interdiction-narcotics/articles/1637237/
5. According to the latest FBI statistics about deadly force encounters the average shooting distance is less than ten feet, the officer is reacting to a perceived threat, meaning they are already behind the curve and either have a gun pointed at them or they have already been shot or shot at and most encounters occur in low light. With all that going on, trigger squeeze and trying to focus on your sights will be the least of your worries. Moving to make yourself a harder target better be your first concern, followed by getting your gun out and putting numerous rounds into the bad guy who will probably be moving also. Those are the skills officers need to win a gunfight. Teaching officers to plant both feet and stand still in a deadly force encounter is far far worse than telling them to not worry so much about trigger manipulation and focusing on their sights when they can most likely reach out and touch the guy who is trying to kill them. I believe these are the types of encounters the author is talking about. Put two officers within 3 yards of each other with high quality airsoft pistols. Make one of them your 100 percent qualifier using standard range tactics and the other the greenest rookie you have but put him through a basic Force-on-Force gunfighting course first. The rookie will kill your range guy 9/10 times. The quicker we accept this and train past it the better off we all will be. If you are not teaching close range gunfighting skills thru FOF u need to.
-Written in response to an article on ‘The trigger control fallacy’
http://www.police1.com/training/articles/1635353/
6. Dude! that girl has no place in LE....we get hurt all the time and move on...wear an injury like that as a badge of honor....sell sacrifice you crazy slug of an officer.....In her little world, if she steps in front of a bullet meant for a child and is injured, she is going to sue the child????Are there anymore superheros out there????
-Written in response to a Fla. officer who sued family over slipping in their house
http://www.police1.com/legal/articles/1637203/
7. ...I dare ya...call me bucktooth ONE MORE TIME!!!!
-Written in response to a report of a badger loose in the sergeant’s pants
http://www.police1.com/bizarre/articles/1640442/
8. Once again people in PRISON learned information from sources in prison. Prison should be made a place to stay away from not a place where they can get a college degree at the expense of taxpayers. I agree with the guy in Arizona who makes them sleep in tents, wear pink underwear and watch the weather or Disney Channel.
- Written in response to a Southern Calif. terror plot that posed a major threat article
http://www.police1.com/terrorism/articles/1640745/
9. This article is a joke - RIGHT? A grand jury decides the police should have waited longer? That is not their decision - they were not there and have NO right indicting anyone under these circumstances! The grand jury is a joke! This is a tragic incident that, like any tactical incident can be second guessed from here to eternity! A decision was made, an entry was made, they were faced with a weapon that called for lethal force and they defended themselves!
Assuming this “indictment” is not somehow dismissed - this trial will end up in a “NOT GUILTY!” And when it does - it is a shame that those officials indicted cannot civilly sue the grand jury members for wrongful prosecution!
- Written in response to Calif. commanding officers may be indicted for other officer’s shooting
http://www.police1.com/legal/articles/1637931/
10. Gerry Harrington, Port St Lucie P.D. FL
My mother lives in your city. I am glad to see your comments. I appreciate your mindset.
REPLYING TO: Great article. Now is the time to prepare. Now is the time to train and have the equipment readied for the fight. Officer safety does not supersede citizen safety. You, the armed LEO, have been trained and provided with protective equipment. You have the ability to protect yourself where as the citizens we protect do not. As John Giduck says, “If not you than who?”
Bring to the fight to the fight and prevail!
Gerry Harrington, Port St Lucie P.D. FL
-Written in response to an article about Protecting citizens from killers takes bravery, aggression and speed
http://www.police1.com/active-shooter/articles/1630799/