silly police!
 

why we use handcuffs!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL62mNt6BrQ

Lucky Police! Latest nominations for the Dawin Award.

How, or should I ask why, did he get in the back of the car w/out being searched?:confused:

Thank God that was a dumb kid and not a bad one!!!

The story i read on this at the time was:. Guy was drunk. But walking home. They offered him a lift. He came back with no wants. So they put him in back to give lift home. Was around christmas. Being drunk he thought he was in trouble. And did not want the gun to be found on him. So he was emptying it. But kept dropping it.

This reminds me of a case I got involved with many years ago.

A trooper in a neighboring state came across an unoccupied but overturned truck. The trooper continued to drive and came across two Mexican nationals.
He told them to get into the squad car. While inside, one of them asked the trooper if they were in trouble. The trooper in turn asked why would he ask that. The response was because of "the drugs in the truck." Turned out there was hundreds of kilo's of cocaine in the truck and they were transporting it.
I got involved because it was being managed and delivered to someone from within our jurisdiction.

Back to the OP. Not "silly police", but more along the lines of "lucky police."

Really! :facepalm:

Did get this note, we get videos in our training emails and this one was one of them....still....lucky as heck!

Policy in our agency is if they ride they are cuffed....no exceptions.....

On of the towns a few miles away from us a year or two before my time with GHPD had a similar incident. An officer stopped to help a truck with a blow out. He did run the plate, but not the people. Plate came back fine. He crawled under to help release the spare tire, and they started beating him with crow bars and took off in the squad car. Turns out they had boosted the truck from a home during a break in while the family was at work and school. They had ID, and what is more they had wants out for them. Significant felony wants. It was drilled into be, talk is cheap. You hook up, pat down, pat down again and give them a semi reclined seat in a car till you can verify who the fuck these people are.

Very lucky police.

Back around 90-91 I had car trouble at night on a highway back home in CT. A female state trooper was kind enough to let me sit (up front) with her until I got squared away with a ride. I would have been about 21-22 y/o back then. Until watching this video it never occurred to me what a risk she took. Times were different then and I was a clean cut, polite kid but still.

DITTO...!:facepalm:

Has to be so hard to be a compassionate cop and be totally safe in some situations. I am weighing on a job in SC out in the sticks, have till June to think on it. Very hard decision when I want to help these near illiterates but think just one of them might not really like me.
Maybe I should just buy a still, lotsa sugar, mason jars and play it safe.