Shootin' Buddy
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- Jan 4, 2003
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I have two questions for the LEOs among us.
1) After a shooting, when you arrive on scene, what would you ideally like to find the Good Guy doing? Suppose, for example, you get a call on a disturbance involving guns. You show up on the scene and some guy is pointing a gun at another guy. The other guy is standing there with his hands up. You don't know it yet, but the guy with the gun is a store owner. The guy with his hands up is a robber who clobbered the store owner's wife with a baseball bat.
What can the good guy do to improve his chances of surviving the incident when you come onto the scene? What would you, as an officer, like to see honest citzens do to clarify this situation?
2) After a shooting, when you arrive on scene, what sorts of things do you expect to hear an innocent person saying or not saying? What can I, as a card-carrying good guy, do to improve my chances that the responding officers will be on my side and write a favorable report? Should I say nothing at all in order to improve my chances of not getting arrested on the spot?
I'm particularly looking for some answers from police officers, so please identify whether you are or are not an LEO to begin your post.
Don
1) After a shooting, when you arrive on scene, what would you ideally like to find the Good Guy doing? Suppose, for example, you get a call on a disturbance involving guns. You show up on the scene and some guy is pointing a gun at another guy. The other guy is standing there with his hands up. You don't know it yet, but the guy with the gun is a store owner. The guy with his hands up is a robber who clobbered the store owner's wife with a baseball bat.
What can the good guy do to improve his chances of surviving the incident when you come onto the scene? What would you, as an officer, like to see honest citzens do to clarify this situation?
2) After a shooting, when you arrive on scene, what sorts of things do you expect to hear an innocent person saying or not saying? What can I, as a card-carrying good guy, do to improve my chances that the responding officers will be on my side and write a favorable report? Should I say nothing at all in order to improve my chances of not getting arrested on the spot?
I'm particularly looking for some answers from police officers, so please identify whether you are or are not an LEO to begin your post.
Don