Fundamentally Wrong

Is it just me or is there something fundamentally wrong with with the way our police people are doing their job.  I am outraged at the "SHOOT FIRST ASK QUESTIONS LATER" mentality that has been exhibited the past few years. 

Oh, don't get me wrong...I appreciate the job they are doing, putting their life on the line everyday to keep peace in the country but when I turn on the TV or read the paper, all I seem to see is COP SHOOTS 56 YR OLD MAN, Cops tazer someone, cops beat woman in custody... It makes me think that the RCMP and city police departments have trained a bunch of weak kneed, cowardly little pussies, who are so afraid of getting hurt that they would rather get the slap on the hand from higher up and shoot first... for instances that come to mind are:  Robert Chikanski.. and the countless others who were over tazered. The two recent people held in an Ontario jail that were beaten up while in custody, and the 54 yr old man just east of Edmonton that was shot to death by RCMP officers.

What ever happened to shooting in the arm or leg, no this man in Edm. was shot in the chest and head...they meant to kill him and he never fired his gun...he waved it around in a threatening manner but never shot....and they killed him...
So for the past three days we have had to listen to people's outrage at the killing of a Toronto police officer when he was run over by a stolen snow plow.   And it is sad...I agree...but dozens of people die on the job everyday and they don't get five days on National news..with 13,000 people attending their funeral... it just seems a bit ludicrous to me...

There would have been a time when the police in that stand off situation east of Edm. would have called in a negotiator...spent some time finding out about the mans situation...but not anymore...if it's gonna take any more than a half hour they'll just shoot you, so they can all clock off on time and take the wife out for supper. If they had taken the time to look into this mans life they would have perhaps spoken to his daughter who would have told them that he has been terribly depressed and that she suspects that her father waved his gun around on purpose so that the police WOULD shoot him, suicide...oh well,

I am not the only one who sees a terrible trend... and it frightens me...

I know for a fact that the police make a lot of mistakes, the inquiry into the Roszcko shooting of 4 RCMP officers is underway in Edm. right now and I am livid at some of the shit they are trying to shove down our throat...things that we know for a fact did not happen...on a day last week when the father of Peter Sheeman was allowed to ask questions of the commanding officer Martin of the Mayerthorpe detachment. He asked if there was any one thing, that had it been done differently, would have changed the outcome of that fateful day...and Martin replied, Yes, a phone call or tip, telling them that Roszcko had returned to the farm, would have changed the way he approached the situation...
It was made very clear by whom he had wanted that phone call from...since the RCMP have been trying to make Dennis Cheeseman and Shawn Hennessy the scape goats for years now...They are still in jail...but may get out on early parole in two years...their lives are ruined...their families left destitute after trying to pay for lawyers...and they only thing they are guilty of really is selling Roszcko's pot to the high school kids in Barrhead...and selling him an old hunting rifle three years before the shootings...for quick cash...

They did transport him from Shawn Hennessey's house back to his farm...but he showed up at Hennessey's house waving a hand gun at Shawn and his wife with his two young children in the next room...what would you have done... refused?.... I wouldn't have...he did try to get out of it...but Roszcko threatened to hurt his wife and kids so he along with his (slightly simple) brother in law drove Roszcko back to his farm...just a two miles from our house...they drove past on the highway, and once they were adjacent to his land, in a dip in the highway he made them stop and got out...he waved the gun in their face and told them not to tell anyone about this...they drove a bit farther down the road then turned the vehicle around and returned home... They had no idea that there were RCMP officers camped out in Roszcko's yard... perhaps if they had they would have made that call...all they knew was that some sheriff had shown up that afternoon to repossess Roszcko's truck, that he had fled the farm and gone to his aunts to hide the truck...now he wanted them to take him home... so they did....Shawn Hennessey and his brother in law spent the remainder of that night consoling Shawns wife...who was very upset from that man showing up waving a gun around....t he children were put to bed and they watched a movie and did not know about the shootings until late the next day.. so they had no idea that a call from them could have changed anything...they didn't even know it was happening. until it was over...

So I have to ask this...just because some asshole shows up at your door waving a gun and making threats and wants you to drive him home, does that make you an accomplice to murders that hadn't even taken place at the time you drove him home....and if so, does that mean that if you were sitting in your car out side a bank...waiting for you husband to join you ...and inside the bank, a man has been shot during an armed robbery...the thief... runs out,gets in your car,  holds a gun to your head and says drive.... does that make you an accomplice to murder and theft...?????

I think if they had known there were officers staked out at his home, and that he returned there with the evil intent of killing them, they would have called the police...but they didn't know what was taking place there, they dropped him off on the highway not his yard...why didn't his mother call the police...he stopped at her house before crossing the field to his own yard... she didn't know there were policemen there waiting....and they weren't really waiting for him to return...they were waiting for the green team and chop team to arrive from edm....so if they had waited at the end of his driveway (which is quite long) they may not have been shot...but they waited  grouped together at one end of his shop.Waited for search warrants, which they did not have when they first arrived there..

Any way... It just seems to me that police across the country have embraced the whole shoot first ask questions later policy and then blame their hair trigger attitude on the victims..." well if he hadn't been standing on his porch waving his gun in the air, we wouldn't have felt threatened and shot him in the heart..."  it just seems alittle extreme...what ever happened to shooting him in the leg to demobilize him and then rush him while he is distracted with the pain...nope...must have run out of room in the jails....let's just shoot him...and find out later that there were no bullets in his gun....