Sunday, May 29, 2011

How Do You Know That the Guy Pulling You Over Or Knocking On Your Door Is a Cop?

Increasingly, you don't.
As long as police officers have worn uniforms and carried badges, criminals have dressed like them to try to win the trust of potential victims. Now the impersonators are far more sophisticated, according to nearly a dozen city police chiefs and detectives across the country.
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“Unfortunately, there is not a lot of downside for a criminal to impersonate a police officer,” said Commissioner Edward Davis of the Boston Police Department. “You can charge them with impersonating a police officer, but that’s not a very serious crime. The way the law views this crime, it’s as an innocent or silly prank. But it has become a much more serious crime than it is perceived by the public.”
It'll be taken a lot more seriously by the police when citizens stop backing down because some guy says that he's a cop. It'll be taken more seriously when people start shooting and dying.

The police may have to rethink their favored technique of showing up in the middle of the night.
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1 comment:

  1. BadTux5/29/2011 2:15 PM

    Thing is, current tactics already account for the possibility that the victim err 'perp' might not believe the person knocking on his door is a cop. That's why they simultaneously smash flashbangs in through every single window and hit the door themselves only moments later. That's why we get all these dead bodies shot by cops because they heard someone moving around outside their house and grabbed a gun... the masked guys in black have already accounted for that.

    Which just points out the pointlessness of the notion that "2nd Amendment Solutions" could work. The only thing that has *ever* worked in the face of paramilitary police forces is when the paramilitary police forces have deserted to the side of the people. But that possibility is being taken care of right now via the whole "war on everyone" mentality that has taken grip of our police forces, where everybody, even Granny stopped for running a stop sign, is a dirtbag out to kill cops, and treated accordingly, and cops who refuse to treat "civilians" as scum untermenschen are weeded out in a number of ways.

    To summarize using JzB's favorite acronym: WASF.

    - Badtux the Waddling Penguin

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