The Adventures in Policing Thread Part II

There should be more cops like Det. Joe Soares of the Newark PD:

During the ceremony Detective Joe Soares was named the 2018 Purple Heart Recipient. Soares told TAPInto Newark that he was ecstatic to be given the award and that he had no idea it was coming.

"I feel terrific,” said Soares. “It’s a great day.”

Soares was shot once in the chest while executing a narcotics search warrant. A police officer for 17 years and member of the SWAT team for 13 years, Soares did not return fire despite the harm that befell him. Soares said there was a child sleeping in a room inside the premises.

A humble Soares said he responded exactly the way he was supposed to based on his training and that he simply did his job. Soares said he had good days and bad days since he was shot and that the day it happened seemed like any other up until being shot once in the left side of his chest. The protective gear he was wearing saved his life.

On Friday, Soares posed for photos and spoke with residents, other officers, and officials who congratulated and thanked him.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/newar...ark-police-officers-honored-for-bravery-valor

 

Wouldn't it be better not to have a SWAT raid if you know there are children present?

 

They were supposed to round them up and turn them over to ICE for safekeeping...

 

Thanks Gloomy Gus.

 

Yeah I don't know the protocols. But Newarks a rough town. Perps smash into cop cars regularly (a Newark tradition) and the cops show a lotta restraint in most cases

 

Well, to be fair, the light had turned green and he was just sitting there!

 

Guns. Ammo. Stolen property. Oxycodone. Moonshine. Eyeballs.

http://www.wnky.com/story/38379506/...-moonshine-and-eyeballs#.Wx0zm7E22lm.facebook

The Heroes Who Keep us Safe.

 

She will not go to prison.

 

If you did what she did, the cops would have shot you when they responded to the call. Then the DA would charge you with second-degree murder, if you were still alive. And then you would be convicted.

 

I'm going to have to drop the Obvious Bomb here:

Because she's a (white) cop and the victim is black.

 

You haven't spent much time in the land of the free and the home of the Braves, apparently.
#LetsRoll #SoProudToBeCountedAmongYall

 

Seems to me the correct charge is murder and the lesser included offense of manslaughter. Then the prosecution has both bases covered in case it turns out against all odds that it was a legitimate mistake. Some states don't allow this, but IIRC Texas does.

 

The first function of the Process is to protect its own.

 

I remember watching Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain pitching at the home of the Braves.

 

Not that home, man. The REAL one, in Atlanta...

 

Ah...yes. Hanoi Jane's team!

 

You're better than that. It was Outrageous Ted's team!

 

Yeah, back int he day when I was young and skinny and fit and could run for 90 minutes I used to run the steps of that stadium. Or what is still left of it. The right field Pavilion of Braves Field is still there. At the time the place was built it was the biggest ballpark in the country, holding a massive 45,000 people. It wasn't until Yankee Stadium was built in 1923 (and the Polo Grounds expanded the same year) that it was overtaken.

 

My bad. My Sis [R.I.P.] was a Navy Chief during the Vietnam skirmish and it was fortunate that she never crossed paths w/Jane else she would have needed bail money.

 

Here is another pudknocker in trouble for revealing his hidden venom.



...and now is the time on Sprockets when we dance!