Pittsburgh area police shooting
A 17-year-old was shot three times and killed by a police officer in Pennsylvania while running away from a car that was pulled over in connection to a reported shooting in the area on Tuesday, officials said.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, ACPD Superintendent Coleman McDonough said: “An investigation revealed that the shooter fired nine .40 caliber rounds at the victim from a passing vehicle. The victim also returned fire at the vehicle.”
He also revealed two firearms were recovered from the suspect’s vehicle.
When McDonough was asked if Rose had been shot in the back, he responded that the teen was shot in “various places on his body,” adding that the medical examiner would release further information.
“I understand in today’s atmosphere anytime a young man is killed there’s cause for outrage in some areas,” he said. “However, I would urge people to give us time to conduct an objective investigation, to gather facts.”
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/20/17-year-old-shot-dead-by-police-while-running-away-from-traffic-stop.html
The way things are heading, the rules of engagement are likely going to change for the police. This will make things worse for everyone, as I explain below.
Right now, there are enough police out there whose personality is such that they live for getting into other people’s business. They live for the rush of getting into, or just being involved, in serious crimes and such. Some officers will age out of this mentality, others can’t ever let it go and thus are constantly doing traffic stops, interjecting themselves into another person’s life where that person is just loitering or walking down the sidewalk, etc..
These officers crave that interaction, trying to find criminals to arrest for the most part. This actually gets results. Wanted people are discovered, guns and drugs are taken off the street (but as it stands now, they are quickly replaced).
On the other side of the spectrum are officers who no longer care. They show up, take their runs, try to minimize time spent on scene, etc.. Some are lazy, some just want to reduce their liability of anything going south, some are bitter they didn’t get promoted, etc..
From articles and reports I read, things are really screwed up. There is a movement in police academies to train “deescalation.” This is the new word of the day in law enforcement.
There are reports where they are telling officers to slow down their response, don’t just rush into something, because getting into a rush can be a factor if things go south (ie: Kicking in the wrong door, not checking the address a second or third time on the warrant, etc.).
This is both good and bad. Good in that it will likely reduce errors, maybe mean fewer officers will get hurt. Bad because I predict police will become more like the fire department. They won’t hangout at the station house, but they will just hangout in their vehicles, hidden, or maybe if they are social and want interaction, local businesses, parking lots, etc..
The problem is that crime might actually get worse. The fewer go go go officers there are, the less chances that criminals are interrupted during the time they are between committing crimes. The powers that be want both, but you can’t have both. You have to take the good with the bad and pro-active policing really can’t be combined with deescalation and/or the slow things down philosophy. It will be interesting to see where things are in the future. Is the Pittsburgh area in Allegheny County destined to be the next site of a BLM riot?
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