Posted on Oct 13, 2016
Police See Heightened Threat Of Ambush After Year Of Unrest
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This may well become the standard LE response to "simple domestic violence" calls (Palm Springs CoP's assessment of a call that is never "simple"): units responding to set up a tactical perimeter, then having a tactical team approach the house a few minutes later? Or a helo/drone to survey the area for threats before responding officers approach the location? In the meantime precious seconds are turning into minutes...tick tock.
REPORT: Hours after five Dallas police officers were killed by sniper fire during a July protest over police aggression, a call reporting a break-in at an apartment came in to the Valdosta Police Department in Georgia.
Officer Randall Hancock, a 10-year veteran, responded to the scene, where an armed man later identified as Stephen Beck was lying in wait. Beck shot Hancock three times, with two bullets catching in his bulletproof vest and a third entered his abdomen. Hancock, who survived, returned fire and severely wounded the suspect.
Beck, 22, was suffering from depression and set up the scene in a bid to commit suicide-by-cop.
It was just one example in a growing number of police officer ambushes across the country in recent months. On Wednesday night, two Boston police officers were critically injured after responding to a domestic call where they were shot by a man wearing body armor. And on Saturday, two Palm Springs, Calif., police officers were killed by a suspected gang member who lured them to their deaths.
REPORT: Hours after five Dallas police officers were killed by sniper fire during a July protest over police aggression, a call reporting a break-in at an apartment came in to the Valdosta Police Department in Georgia.
Officer Randall Hancock, a 10-year veteran, responded to the scene, where an armed man later identified as Stephen Beck was lying in wait. Beck shot Hancock three times, with two bullets catching in his bulletproof vest and a third entered his abdomen. Hancock, who survived, returned fire and severely wounded the suspect.
Beck, 22, was suffering from depression and set up the scene in a bid to commit suicide-by-cop.
It was just one example in a growing number of police officer ambushes across the country in recent months. On Wednesday night, two Boston police officers were critically injured after responding to a domestic call where they were shot by a man wearing body armor. And on Saturday, two Palm Springs, Calif., police officers were killed by a suspected gang member who lured them to their deaths.
Police See Heightened Threat Of Ambush After Year Of Unrest
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The other reaction we are seeing in the LEOs like the City or Town Police Force and the County Sheriff's Office is officers and deputies hesitating to react if threatened for fear of being the next viral video on Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and Facebook. The most recent publicized event was the Chicago veteran police officer who let herself be pummeled nearly to death rather than shoot the drug crazed man beating her.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
SPC Douglas Hemmingway yup-yup, ChiTown Mayor Rahm-butt calls it 'going fetal'; others call it 'laying back'. I call it 'F-you all, you're not worth the risk anymore...' or I am projecting my reasons for bailing LE?
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what was their first clue... how many ambushes have they been called into...
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Not all ambushes have unhappy endings: "It was in Patterson where Bull was ambushed when he was leaving the department and walking to his car. He was hit nine times and was able to empty his service weapon in the direction of the flashes from the weapon. Bull had extensive recovery time and was lauded for attempting to ignore the long-term effects of the shooting.
He then transferred to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department [my old department where I served with him] where he served as a deputy for nearly two years. Returning to Patterson he was elevated to a sergeant’s position for some three years before his selection as acting police chief.
Bull filled the chief position for nearly three months before being given the job permanently leading the Patterson Department for some three years until he was offered the chief’s position in the City of Red Bluff where he worked for five years before being hired as Ripon’s chief in September of 2000.
The city has hired the chief to stay on with the city as a consultant for the next year to be available to support interim chief Ed Ormonde should the need arise. Bull declined payment for his consulting duties."
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/archives/16589/
He then transferred to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department [my old department where I served with him] where he served as a deputy for nearly two years. Returning to Patterson he was elevated to a sergeant’s position for some three years before his selection as acting police chief.
Bull filled the chief position for nearly three months before being given the job permanently leading the Patterson Department for some three years until he was offered the chief’s position in the City of Red Bluff where he worked for five years before being hired as Ripon’s chief in September of 2000.
The city has hired the chief to stay on with the city as a consultant for the next year to be available to support interim chief Ed Ormonde should the need arise. Bull declined payment for his consulting duties."
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/archives/16589/
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