Four police shot dead in ambush

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Originally Posted by beachgirl

In my area of the country, bulletproof vests are mandatory for every policeperson, state and local, regardless of what duty they're on. The vests go on before they go out the door. And desk-duty police have them too. A very, very sad statement on our world, but at least it's a modicum of protection for them. Unfortunately, not enough for the four in Washington State.

RIP.

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Tell ya what - I just realised, after some careful scrutiny, that not all the cops wear bullet proof vests in Baltimore.

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Originally Posted by janvanvurpa

There's good areas and bad areas everywhere.
The "perp" was from Arkansas, and the crime was done in a particularly vile part of a kind of gritty city. In Lakewood, which right out of the gates of a large Army base with infantry units, the main drag is lined with "check cashing" stores, Lease Your Furniture stores, miles of used car lots, all the businesses which love to prey on the mainly young enlisted men in the service. Predatory business in other words.

See Americans love to blab about "Support the Troops" but EVERYWHERE I have been in this country that there's a large military presence there's these predatory business, scum landlords, Loan sharks, etc. It's disgusting.

Plus all the US police have all decided that all of us are "The enemy" and they've all cried for and gotten more and more military weaponry and maybe 90% shave their heads clean to look like skin-head gangs, and many, many chronically abuse steroids to "bulk up" to, in the words of some cop locally on TV "Get some intimidation factor going and get some street cred".

The guy was some sociopath and was out on bail after being charged with attacking a cop and rape of a child. He made bail.....

But that's extremely unusual in Western Washington, most people including criminals are fatally mellow here, can't be bothered to do much good or bad.
They're too busy hiking or "chillin' at the starbucks"

Does your daughter live here?

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Wow.

Talk about gross generalizations. How liberal of you.

Most Cdn. uniform cops wear vests.

I think if cops in a country have to wear bulletproof vests indicates high proneness the said country against crime. Unlike the common reflective vests the cops use on the road to make them more visible, bulletproof vest is not comfort for daily use. But it also depends on material which the vest is made of, ceramic vest type is one of those is not comfort. Just my guess, never try to use that vest.

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Originally Posted by Easy Drifter

Most Cdn. uniform cops wear vests.

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Well guess what!! In tonight's TV, Melbourne police are getting new bullet proof vests to wear on the beat. I didn't realise I was living in an environment which necessitated this. I goes to show how far behind the times I am. :(

in this world more executions of violent criminals are needed.

Pity you never execute the really violent ones then.

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Originally Posted by Jefe Máximo

Pity you never execute the really violent ones then.

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We should do that more often indeed.

I predicted this guy would get the death penalty in a state which doesn't have it. Gee...that was predictable.

I don't hold Huckabee totally to blame for this one. This mook was busted for raping a kid and attacking a cop. He was given bail. In light of the fact the Ex Governor of Arkansas cut him a break he obviously didn't understand he was given, what was the judge smoking to grant this jerk bail? Attacking a cop is a charge that should send up warning flags everywhere. Anyone who attacks a cop will go after anyone.

This guy was scum. I don't advocate the death penalty except when the perp is so obviously guilty even Eki will see it....and this guy qualified.

He was mentally unstable, but I don't think there is anything society could do for him. To kill 4 cops in cold blood with shots to the head, that is a sick man...

AS for your assertion Jan that society is evil to ''prey'' on servicemen with the cheesy check cashing businesses and the like, no one forces them to be stupid with their money, and there isn't anything illegal about those businesses. It is capitalism, which means there is a service for everything, inculding being dumb with your money. I know where businesses like that are in my town and we don't have a military base for 100 miles.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

AS for your assertion Jan that society is evil to ''prey'' on servicemen with the cheesy check cashing businesses and the like, no one forces them to be stupid with their money, and there isn't anything illegal about those businesses. It is capitalism, which means there is a service for everything, inculding being dumb with your money. I know where businesses like that are in my town and we don't have a military base for 100 miles.

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OK OK Mark, you know the whole fu**ing US of fa**ing A 20 time better than I! I just lived here for 40 years and the first 17 in and around military bases, and more than 25 years very often very close by.

I guess you should tell the godd**mn DoD and the Attorneys General in Washington, California etc that their concerns for predatory and deceptive businesses is all stupid, and those are just good red blooded Americans and f***ing young and inexperienced service men--like the guy I just talked to in the waiting room at the doctor's just yesterday evening who "leased" a bunk bed when he had a second kid that after the interest rates on the loan jumped to loan shark levels he ended up paying nearly 1800 bucks on a 250 dollar bunk bed---that's just Good Ol' American Capitalism.

And I guess since you got one check cashing place that negates all what we've seen from the DoD on this subject....