I am sometimes harsh on the police, when some of them go overboard and violate the rights of American citizens.
That said, the Boston Police Department looks like they have officers who took fire from the SOB who blew up the Boston Marathon, in order to take him alive. I expect that the intelligence that will be gleaned from the capture will be valuable indeed.
And the fact that the Police Officers were willing to take a bullet to get this intel is pretty much the definition of "hero". Bravo Zulu, Boston PD.
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Mozart, really erally.
The Boston PD may be run by a bunch of incompetents and the Fed.Gov certainly doesn't have an executive management that commends itself. But the rank and file still show us that they run to the sound of gunfire and stand between us and the incoming fire.
Credit where it's due, to the patrolman on the street. See Kipling's "Tommy" for a more in depth analysis.
Fair enough they run to gunfire, point taken.
Do they have the right to search your house for the "public" good?
Mozart, no. Like I said, I sometimes criticize police abuse. The converse is that we should praise the praiseworthy. This seems like one of those times.
Really. Bravo for locking down a city of ONE MILLION to get ONE teenaged terrorist?
This isn't America.
Backwoods Engineer, we have to separate the decisions of the Brass from what the front line troops do.
It's fine to criticize the former. Maybe it's our duty as free citizens of the Republic. But we should also honor the later. They don't have to take a bullet for us, but they step up and do it.
Borepatch it is the rank in file that are our worst nightmare as a free Republic.
They do assume a responsibility to uphold their oath, by locking you in your house for the supposed reason of protecting you is a nefarious argument.
This is a recipe for an all out assault on freedom. The intent of America is/will be extinguished.
Mozart has the truth of it.
And how many of these enemies have we allowed inside our country? How long before the next one, seeing what one or two can accomplish, say their prayers and launch another attack?
Mozart, you can argue the wisdom of locking down Watertown. You can argue that the perp was caught because of the quick wits of a Regular Joe citizen.
But there's a cop dead tonight from those terrorists, and still the police ran towards the sound of the gunfire.
Let's praise what's praiseworthy. That's heroism in my book.
ASM826, the situation is like what we saw in World War II. The Politicians and Brass were incompetents, and a lot of Marines dies in the PTO. That incompetence does not tarnish the heroism of those Marines at Iwo. On the contrary.
Same thing here. Execution may not have been perfect, but the bravery is admirable.
Agreed Borepatch folks died that should not have.
What are your thoughts in regard to the rank in file police abuse of search and seizure? Should they have the right to enter your home for the sake of public safety?
Should they submit to the "brass" orders?
Do they have a duty to defy orders based on their oath?
There may come a time when these will be important questions to ask.
Strange times we live in.
Not that impressed with these cops in this situation. Not much different from the "heroes" who burned down Dorner.
While I can agree that taking a risk to take the suspect alive _would_ be admirable, it is not clear that such is what happened.
I reserve my applause for extraordinary performance when the ordinary suddenly escalates. When you ride to the scene in an AFV, you're not that special.
Really, I don't get all the hoopla. As one poster above writes: locking down the entire city of Boston to capture one 19-year-old lunatic?
What makes this "the most complex crime" ever? What a bizarre statement!
Two people dead, dozens injured - in a country of 300 million, that happens all the time. Just look at the fertilizer plant explosion a few days later.
If this hadn't happened on live television, it would have just been "yet another" crime by a couple of idiots. Shame on the media for all the hype, for playing into their hands and giving them undeserved publicity. Shame on the public for falling for it.
I think more people die on a weekend in Chicago and yet the police there don't exactly run towards the gunfire.
As for the suspects I would love to know who put them up to this as their level of incompetence is astonishing, as are all domestic terrorists. They all seem to get caught within a week. Which is pretty amazing as no one else in the world ever manages to do that and remember these are they same people who can not even find Jimmy Hoffa after 30 years.
Thanks BP. You and I have both criticized the police where such was appropriate but I think this situation is pretty clear. Not only did they run to the sounds of the guns but they ran to the sound of the bombs going off, never knowing where the next one would explode. The only deaths and injuries were to the bad guys and the cops. What more can we ask?
I was thinking the same thing, Borepatch, especially since they did lift the "lockdown" even though they hadn't found the guy, but today I saw this.
We certainly don't have the whole story - maybe they had some specific probable cause to pull that person out of his home and search it - but it's pretty disturbing as is.
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