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  • BillFairbanks

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    I'm going to guess that at least one citizen is out a few air soft guns and a somewhat "non destroyed" apartment.

    https://abc7.com/lancaster-deputy-shooting-pellet-gun-seized-sent-for-testing/5485578/

    I’m sure the police apologized to him, returned his property and helped him clean up his apartment

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    pronstar

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    What was with the manhunt and searches? They must have believed him at some point.

    Protocol.
    The officers on the “manhunt” knew it was a sham.

    Also, the dude comes from a family with quite a few LE officers. Which means he likely got preferential treatment as a recruit.


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    MikeyJ

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    Here’s the backstory:
    In the past, most departments wanted well-rounded people who had some life experiences.

    Today, many CA departments prefer totally green newbies with no few life experiences, so they don’t have “bad habits” to break.

    Some of the stories my CA-cop buddies tell me of rookie training, and rookie mistakes in the field, would be funny if they weren’t so sad.

    My cousin's son is a deputy in CA. Early in his career, on calls where he would have to diffuse a situation, he would ask himself "what would mom say in this situation?". Got himself through quite a few domestic calls that way.
     

    Pops1955

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    What a Kalifony story!!! Stupid deputy, stupid story, stupid "manhunt", stupid actor, stupid search by deputies, stupid seizure of a TOY GUN. You cannot make this crap up AND THEY WRITE "NEWS STORIES" about it all. This sounds like a script for a Mall Cop movie only stupider!!!!!!
     

    SQLGeek

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    It's appreciated. I'm not doubting what you're telling me at all. It all just seems really weird.

    And I did add supposedly in there allowing for the fact that the media likes to not exactly report the truth. :)
     

    pronstar

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    “Knowing” it was a sham could very well have started as a hunch that guys had at the time...but now everyone truly knows it was


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    WAYnorthTX

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    LA sheriff's deputy 'completely fabricated' sniper story, has been fired, authorities say
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-ange...hing-manhunt-completely-fabricated-story-lasd
    Hopefully, he will be prosecuted. Definitely should never be a LEO again
    Near where I live, an unarmed woman sitting in a car in the parking lot of a nursing home was shot in the head and killed. A sheriff's deputy said that he accidentally fell down, his gun went off, and he shot her. When asked why he was there, he said that he followed her there and that he suspected her of selling prescriptions she stole from patients there. No evidence of his suspicions ever turned up. The deputy was fired. No charges were filed against him, and he is probably an LEO somewhere else now.
    as he has a credibility issue. Can anyone imagine what would have happened if a innocent civilian would have been shot because of this guy?
    Probably nothing.
     

    Maverick44

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    LA sheriff's deputy 'completely fabricated' sniper story, has been fired, authorities say

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-ange...hing-manhunt-completely-fabricated-story-lasd

    Hopefully, he will be prosecuted. Definitely should never be a LEO again as he has a credibility issue. Can anyone imagine what would have happened if a innocent civilian would have been shot because of this guy?

    Integrity is probably the most important aspect of becoming an LEO. Once you prove that you don't have it, your done. I don't know why anyone would throw away what could have been a very good career like that (especially considering that it can be relatively difficult to get into that career), but at least he did it now instead of 10 years down the line. If he's willing to make up lies like that just out of nowhere, he cannot be trusted to enforce the law fairly and with integrity.
     

    Maverick44

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    Near where I live, an unarmed woman sitting in a car in the parking lot of a nursing home was shot in the head and killed. A sheriff's deputy said that he accidentally fell down, his gun went off, and he shot her. When asked why he was there, he said that he followed her there and that he suspected her of selling prescriptions she stole from patients there. No evidence of his suspicions ever turned up. The deputy was fired. No charges were filed against him, and he is probably an LEO somewhere else now.

    Probably nothing.

    Could you please quit writing everything in bold? It is annoying, does nothing to help whatever argument you are trying to make, and is just plain distracting. It makes me not want to even read what you're writing.
     

    candcallen

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    How the heck did this loser pass the psych eval?
    Have you taken one? They arent exactly difficult, the 10 thousand questions or the interview. Hell I passed 7 or 8 to get offers from agencies.

    Folks have multiple opinions on my sanity and its fluidity. The polygraph and physch eval are snapshots in time. They mean little a few years later.

    Seriously, regarding future employment, officers fired for honesty, in most states, arent as much black balled as they are barred from testifying in court and that makes them useless as police. Many state certification authorities terminate their certs and that's it in that state.

    As you all know systems are never perfect and in today's litigious world recording/passing on negative info about employees to new employers gets tricky.
     

    TAZ

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    Here’s the backstory:
    All deputies start by working in the jails.
    His training to leave jail duty wasn’t going very well, and he was assigned back to jail duty.
    So he fabricated this story, hoping for sympathy.

    The department knew he was lying the whole time. No one believed the story.

    I certainly hope the last part of your statement is absolutely incorrect.

    One officer acting like an asshat is an outlier. An entire team knowingly searching and seizing private property without PC/RS is far more outrageous to me. Hopefully they responded to a call, did what they thought right and then concluded the guy was full of shit.
     

    TheMailMan

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    Near where I live, an unarmed woman sitting in a car in the parking lot of a nursing home was shot in the head and killed. A sheriff's deputy said that he accidentally fell down, his gun went off, and he shot her. When asked why he was there, he said that he followed her there and that he suspected her of selling prescriptions she stole from patients there. No evidence of his suspicions ever turned up. The deputy was fired. No charges were filed against him, and he is probably an LEO somewhere else now.

    Probably nothing.

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