I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
An employee of Catholic Charities of Omaha alleges in a lawsuit that she suffered emotional and physical injuries after an active shooting drill was staged at the organization's headquarters last year.
Sandra Lopez said in the lawsuit that administrators did not warn her or other employees about the drill on May 19, 2022. One administrator who knew it was staged told her, "It is a shooting" as they ran out of the building together, according to the lawsuit.
Lopez said she first heard three loud bangs on the door of the office suite where she works and an administrator in the hallway shouted for people to get out of the building.
Lopez heard what she thought were gunshots and saw an employee on the ground outside the building, apparently severely wounded or dead, causing her to "fear for her life,” according to the lawsuit.
"The conduct of Catholic Charities caused Sandra Lopez emotional distress so severe that no reasonable person should be expected to endure it,” the lawsuit said.
The new indictments increased the number of current and former East Cleveland officers charged with crimes within the last seven months to 16, including the former police chief Scott Gardner, who was indicted in September on multiple counts of theft and fraud. Gardner has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The indictments leave the city with just two dozen remaining officers on the force, officials said.
Yikes. That makes it look like the entire department is suspect... or at least that brutality and violence were accepted behavior.
As he travels the country promoting a new book and his expected presidential campaign, Mr. DeSantis repeatedly points to his ouster of Mr. Warren as an example of the muscular and decisive way he has transformed Florida — and could transform the nation. He casts Mr. Warren as a rogue ideologue whose refusal to enforce the law demanded action.
But a close examination of the episode, including interviews, emails, text messages and thousands of pages of government records, trial testimony, depositions and other court records, reveals a sharply different picture: a governor's office that seemed driven by a preconceived political narrative, bent on a predetermined outcome, content with a flimsy investigation and focused on maximizing media attention for Mr. DeSantis.
Is the governor campaigning on lies and misrepresentations?
Isn't it lovely when narcissists decide to help their cases by testifying for themselves? It gives me great pleasure to watch them auger themselves right into the ground.
Yikes. That makes it look like the entire department is suspect... or at least that brutality and violence were accepted behavior.
Even though it is difficult, we need to learn how to pick up sociopathic traits in police officer candidates because they are attracted to police work. It wouldn't be cheap but perhaps it is cheaper than the payouts for lawsuits. Every single one of them should have a psych eval before being accepted into a program. Of course, as I type this, I realize that doing those evals could quickly become a corrupt cottage industry:(
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I've long said that police are generally referred to as law enforcement professionals when there is little professionalism seen in our actual policing. They have widely disparate training and experience requirements for the same exact rank in departments across the country. There is no national or state licensing or accountability. There is no professional liability and accountability to moderate police behavior.
Sheriff's are a different category that should be explored as separate, but adjacent, topic.
I've long said that police are generally referred to as law enforcement professionals when there is little professionalism seen in our actual policing. They have widely disparate training and experience requirements for the same exact rank in departments across the country. There is no national or state licensing or accountability. There is no professional liability and accountability to moderate police behavior.
Sheriff's are a different category that should be explored as separate, but adjacent, topic.
Bingo. But with applications being low and no one wanting to pay more taxes, it is probably a pipedream that most places will not be able to recruit officers with at least two years of college training. IMHO, it's an incredibly fraught job done by people without the skills they need (or the psychological testing!).
WEll they have these at schools. Not as intense as having a staged body outside and loud banging, but they do have these. I guess they didn't want to alert the staff (like say in mock fire drill) so that they could get a raw response. Well they got one all right. I would have pissed my pants or worse.?
I think the settlements were too generous. Of course, we don't have any facts here except that the mother refused to produce her driver's license when asked. Perhaps it all could have been settled then. Also, maybe the officers haven't been fired because they didn't do anything illegal. Not enough facts here except that no one went to jail, no one was physically injured and that lawyer made way too much money for the case.
I don't! Maybe police will think twice about racial profiling
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Wrong, this was about nuclear power not fossil fuels.