So I decided to go to my neighborhood's monthly security meeting this month. I have had some issues with folks cutting across my proprty at night to jump the fence to get to the parking lot next door and since the association does partols, I want to be the squeaky wheel so I stay on their radar.
Well, now, I almost feel less safe than I did before! I mean I live in the city so I know that stuff happens but now that I hear all the incidents, I feel a little more nervous when I go walk to dog. I don't want to be insensitive but at least one incident could have been avoided. Picture this....
you and your spouse are walking home one night from a movie in a residential neighborhood....
you notice a car pacing you as you walk along the street......
the car pulls past you and then stops......
Do you:
1) turn and walk the other way
2) stop and walk up to the door of one of the houses you are passing and knock on the door
3) take out your cellphone and call 911 or someone or
4) keep walking?
What would you do?
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Too many.....
Another case of unarmed black men being shot to death by police officers who are supposed to protect and serve......
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/04/15/0415manshot.html?COXnetJSessionIDbuild25=p6g6Gj6dGV1NYpPSFJ3GsHBmMwmPmRW0XWhLT1h9tPwJhX2vwkBz!233271245&UrAuth=`N]NUObNZUbTTUWUXUVUZT[UUUWU]U_UZUaUcUcTYWYWZV&urcm=y
The reason why police officers have guns is that they are supposed to have gone through training so that they know how to envoke protocal in highly charged situations and to only use these guns as a last resort.... But there are too many stories of inoccent poor black people being shot and/or killed in circumstances where quite likely no shots should have been fired at all. How does an unarmed man get shot in the back of the head and killed in the front of a club....... Or an elderly woman, scared to death, brutally shot when her house is bumrushed in the middle of the night by police serving a "no-knock" warrant because of "confirmed" drug activity. Or a man, at his bachelor party, shot at 50 times by cops with no evidence of shot being fired at the police.
This is not a Scarface movie! This is real life. I understand that being a police officer can be extremely stressful but the reason why they are allowed to patrol the streets with guns is that we assume that they will conduct themselves with higher standards than gansters!
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2007/04/15/0415manshot.html?COXnetJSessionIDbuild25=p6g6Gj6dGV1NYpPSFJ3GsHBmMwmPmRW0XWhLT1h9tPwJhX2vwkBz!233271245&UrAuth=`N]NUObNZUbTTUWUXUVUZT[UUUWU]U_UZUaUcUcTYWYWZV&urcm=y
The reason why police officers have guns is that they are supposed to have gone through training so that they know how to envoke protocal in highly charged situations and to only use these guns as a last resort.... But there are too many stories of inoccent poor black people being shot and/or killed in circumstances where quite likely no shots should have been fired at all. How does an unarmed man get shot in the back of the head and killed in the front of a club....... Or an elderly woman, scared to death, brutally shot when her house is bumrushed in the middle of the night by police serving a "no-knock" warrant because of "confirmed" drug activity. Or a man, at his bachelor party, shot at 50 times by cops with no evidence of shot being fired at the police.
This is not a Scarface movie! This is real life. I understand that being a police officer can be extremely stressful but the reason why they are allowed to patrol the streets with guns is that we assume that they will conduct themselves with higher standards than gansters!
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