Man robbed, shot outside California P.D.

[La Pistoletta]

Kino74, personally I'm in favor of making criminals work for their stay. They refuse to work, they don't eat.

 

[Huddog]

another case of guns and alcohol not mixing. Sad situation but as an ex-police officer I can guarantee you that the last place to run to for protection is the police department because all the police are usually on the street. Unless it's shift change that is.

 

[MedWheeler]

Diggers wrote:

>>>Uh..what, like Russia doesn’t have street crime?

HA! They have plenty.

Besides, I've watched the shows on TV about our prisons and word "Vacation" is NOT one I would use to describe going there.<<<

I wouldn't use "vacation" to describe it either, but terms like "televisions", "exercise rooms", "play/recreation areas", "free education", "video gaming", "stereos", etc, don't get used in describing Russian prisons. No, Russian prisoners languish in 8x8 cells, one to each, eat minimum staple for "nutrition", and have a VERY low re-offense rate compared to ours. High-risk prisoners are celled 23 or more hours per day. Lower-risk prisoners, if they're lucky, might be allowed to spend 14 hours a day busting big rocks into little ones.
The comment was about their prison system, not about whether or not they have crime. Every nation does. It was also about the high incarceration rate in the US. It is my firm belief that such a prison sentence would not only be more effective a deterrent to crime or re-offense, but that it would not even need be as long. Those two principles are what keep the incarceration rates in other, less-PC nations lower than ours. I think most would be happier doing a year in one of ours than six (maybe three) months in one of theirs.
(Disclaimer: I'm in no way advocating harsher terms for inmates not yet convicted of any crime.)

 

[scrat]

Wow all i can say.
too depressing to say anything else

 

[Geno]

Sorry for the delay. I hadn't stopped back here since I posted.

According to my friend, the LEOs saw him being chased across the parking lot 5-on-1. My friend got to his car seconds ahead of the BGs and tried to leave. The lead BG had a pistol drawn and was holding it to my friend's head demanding the keys. At that point, he drew and fired from his car.

If the chase didn't catch some action, certainly 5 punks chasing a man to a $250,000 car should...especially as they stand there. In fact, not until the bullets had flown did anyone move his way.

However, my point is not about the LEOs' slow reaction time. MY point is about our false-sense-of-security. If I had parked my cheap little pick-up truck in that lot, I too would have felt fairly being that it is close to the PD. Fortunate for my friend, he has good situational awareness.

 

[crazed_ss]

Before everyone starts bashing CA, didnt something crazy like this happen in Texas awhile back? IIRC, some nut with a Kalashnikov opened up on people outside of a courthouse.. I think a CCW holder tried to stop him and was killed.