Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
I certainly see the officer safety side of the coin.
Go ahead, cuff the homeowner who called for help. Put them in the back of the cruiser. Maybe give them a little taste of the taser if they get "lippy," why not? Heck, the officer would be a lot safer if she'd have simply shot the homeowner when she arrived on the scene. No reason to get into cuffing distance, no time wasted, no one filing with a complaint with Internal Affairs afterward...
In all seriousness, I don't know any/many folks who would respond well to that situation. Call the police, they arrive, you disarm, and they cuff & stuff you? If they arrive at my house, they'll have me, the wife, and the kids all on the scene. Do they all get "secured" for the officer's safety? Or just me, trussed up in front of my kids 'cause I called for police assistance?
So, do the same penalties apply for "resisting arrest" if you are the homeowner and take offense at being roughed up by your "servers and protectors?"
As often as I defend law enforcement and extend the benefit of the doubt, it gets harder and harder to deny the "us vs. them" disconnect.
-Sam
Go ahead, cuff the homeowner who called for help. Put them in the back of the cruiser. Maybe give them a little taste of the taser if they get "lippy," why not? Heck, the officer would be a lot safer if she'd have simply shot the homeowner when she arrived on the scene. No reason to get into cuffing distance, no time wasted, no one filing with a complaint with Internal Affairs afterward...
In all seriousness, I don't know any/many folks who would respond well to that situation. Call the police, they arrive, you disarm, and they cuff & stuff you? If they arrive at my house, they'll have me, the wife, and the kids all on the scene. Do they all get "secured" for the officer's safety? Or just me, trussed up in front of my kids 'cause I called for police assistance?
So, do the same penalties apply for "resisting arrest" if you are the homeowner and take offense at being roughed up by your "servers and protectors?"
As often as I defend law enforcement and extend the benefit of the doubt, it gets harder and harder to deny the "us vs. them" disconnect.
-Sam