It took over a year, but LAPD's finest got it right!

[HaloCory22]

ABC7 Eyewitness News â€@ABC7  7m

#BREAKINGNEWS LA Police Commission and Chief Beck determine that mistaken shooting of truck during Dorner manhunt was out of policy

 

[mtangelsfan]

lol

[Lhalo]

Investigators found the officers fired more than 100 times at the truck.

 

 

"Harry you're alive... and you're a horrible shot!

[Mudville]

It really speaks of poor training that starts a shooting frenzy and the results were not even fatal, thank God.

[Tank]

took them an entire year to figure out what most of us realized in about three or four hours.

 

good job, everyone.

[mp170.6]

took them an entire year to figure out what most of us realized in about three or four hours.

 

good job, everyone.

 

And the "investigation" to reach this conclusion probably cost LAPD $5 million.

[tdawg87]

And the "investigation" to reach this conclusion probably cost the taxpayers $5 million.

 

ftfy

[CaliAngel]

Time to dump these LAPD boneheads in the garbage and start fresh.

 

Can't believe these imbeciles are getting paid to walk around with guns, deciding what's best for the public interest.

 

There's gotta be a better way.

[HaloFan85]

And of course, they couldn't give any details about the disciplinary action taken against the officers other than they've been re-assigned to "non field duties".

 

Don't expect to hear anything about these officers ever again.

[arch stanton]

Excellent use of the word "only".

[yk9001]

Count the bullet holes, it was only 30 shots.

 

 

The other shots missed the truck completely.

[yk9001]

The best part about this was that another group of police higher ups wanted to exonerate the cops completely.

 

A panel of high-ranking police officials that reviewed the shooting urged Beck to clear the officers of wrongdoing, said the sources,

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-dorner-20140204,0,6306407.story#ixzz2sf3Jtbb0

 

These guys are the absolute worst.

[Stradling]

Well, even you police haters have to be encouraged that they consider shooting at the wrong truck was "out of policy".

[mtangelsfan]

Well, even you police haters have to be encouraged that they consider shooting at the wrong truck was "out of policy".

 

Seriously?  That's like being encouraged an adult tells you that one plus one equals two.

[yk9001]

Well, even you police haters have to be encouraged that they consider shooting at the wrong truck was "out of policy".

 

 

I am not sure what this is getting at.  I assume this is some sort of sarcasm, but it went over my head.

[Stradling]

Yes it was sarcasm. So no, not seriously mt.

[yk9001]

A cop has about as much chance of getting fired for poor performance as a Major League umpire.

[arch stanton]

Please don't use the term "out of policy" around FS79 right now.

[mancini79]

"Eight Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly riddled a pickup truck with bullets during a manhunt for cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner last year will be allowed to return to the field after they get additional training, Police Chief Charlie Beck said."

Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2014/feb/06/chief-la-officers-in-manhunt-shooting-will/#ixzz2shpDZZCK

 

Time to change the thread title. Just what citizens need, trigger happy cops being trained to shoot more accurately. This is also a nice gem by the commission to exonerate the officers: "The commission also cites the officers' inadequate firepower."

 

I guess 200+ bullet holes in one misidentified vehicle wasn't enough. Time to get officer issued rocket launchers.

 

 

[JAHV76]

The city of LA must have a huge insurance policy.

[arch stanton]

Because they don't have to use Covered California

[mancini79]

The city of LA must have a huge insurance policy.

 

It's called donations by special interest groups. In return, the police dept conveniently turns a blind eye for their actions

[yk9001]

I guess 200+ bullet holes in one misidentified vehicle wasn't enough.

 

 

 

 

There may have been 200 shots fired, but there weren't 200 bullet holes in the vehicle.  They missed a lot.

[mancini79]

I apologize for trying to give the cops some credit.

[Broad Street]

I don't comment a whole lot anymore, but I will here...

My dad was a cop for 30 years and only had to fire his weapon a few times. It used to be that people respected cops and wanted to be cops when they grew up. Now, nobody likes cops and it's turned into a profession that's pretty damn easy to get into. It's just like the military and it's problems right now. If you lower the recruitment standards, then you're going to get a lower quality of people.

And remember, with all the bitching about cops going on, a couple bad apples doesn't mean the whole tree should be cut down. Not all cops are bad, and they have a very high risk job. Remember to thank a cop sometime for their service, just like you would thank someone in the military.

/endrant