By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com
This week a mentally abused man walked into a secure New York office building and killed four people. This included one police officer (acting as security guard) and one security guard as shown above.
This is an example of how quick a massacre can occur. It could have been worse, if it wasn’t for the fact that the gunman turned the weapon upon himself.
There have been a lot of lawsuits and investigations in Oregon of police officers who responded to a hostile actor with deadly or injurious responses. Many times people fighting with police reach into their clothes to pull out a possible weapon. Sometimes people charge officers with clubs or knives or glass or even unidentifiable objects at the time. Each time an officer has to make a split second judgement on what to do — a one second delay could cost the officer his life. Two New York security officials lost their lives in a scenario that appears to have little room for any delay.
Yet, Oregon political activists keep pressuring to have police use more non-lethal weapons, not travel with actual handguns (as de-escalation tactic), or not involving officers at all (instead using mental health mediators). Activists rage against even use non-lethal tools. The New York gunman is cited as being under medications at the time of the shooting. None of these options, or a smaller police force, would have helped in this NY scenario.
It is often criminals with a long history of violence who are putting our police officers in danger. When officers respond, the system goes hard after the officer. Very lengthy lawsuits and investigations end up going nowhere, and costing a drag on our court system and law enforcement budgets. Lawsuits and investigations are a necessary right, but they should be measured by the real-life dangers officers face as evidence this week in New York.
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