[quote]An apparent booze-fueled dispute over loud music at a Chino campground escalates to where men from both sides drew guns and opened fire. Both men were off-duty L.A. County sheriff’s deputies. A department spokesman calls it ‘gross negligence.'[/quote]
I’d say LOL, but in reality that is f-ing scary. The fact that such questionable behavior comes out of the LA County law enforcement groups on regular basis, IMHO, really calls into question just how many apples in the barrel are bad.
[quote=spdrun]This almost seems like something out of a bad spaghetti Western … perhaps they should be summarily deported to Arizona.[/quote]Not too bad of an idea. That way everyone else would be equally armed to the police.. and the police might be less likely to pull their weapons to push people around realizing the other person might be armed as well. I suspect that both police involved didn’t know that the other was also an officer.. so they were going to use the ‘well I am the police with a gun’ justification… big OOPS!
[quote=ucodegen][quote=spdrun]This almost seems like something out of a bad spaghetti Western … perhaps they should be summarily deported to Arizona.[/quote]Not too bad of an idea. That way everyone else would be equally armed to the police.. and the police might be less likely to pull their weapons to push people around realizing the other person might be armed as well. I suspect that both police involved didn’t know that the other was also an officer.. so they were going to use the ‘well I am the police with a gun’ justification… big OOPS![/quote]
Only good news is that cops cannot shoot worth a shit so it’s unlikely they actually hit anything.
[quote]More than a dozen current and former “sworn officers” from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are expected to be arrested as part of a wide-ranging investigation into allegations of abuse and misconduct inside the county’s jails, according to sources familiar with the arrests.
At least three people — including a lieutenant, a sergeant and a deputy — were taken into custody by FBI agents as part of a federal obstruction of justice probe into how sheriff’s officials handled an FBI informant at the center of the jail investigation, one source familiar with the probe said.
This is another reason why you DON’T want the government to start taking DNA samples from everyone as mentioned in another thread because “we shouldn’t have anything to hide if we aren’t doing any crime.”
I wouldn’t be surprised if a dirty cop “used” your DNA to crack a case and make Lieutenant sooner and be the “hero” for fame/riches/money.
Humans are morally weak and things like this would be abused to no end in my opinion.
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