even most well-trained professionals are not going to expect a shooting in a movie theater of all places. when you are caught off-guard, it makes accurate assessment of the circumstances and how to deal with the perp more difficult.
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Jul 20, 2012 2:43:35 pm PDT #14880 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2012 2:58:35 pm PDT #14881 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Great. Browser crash, lost post.
Any LEO I've worked with is going to ask a civilian not to open fire in a dark crowded room with smoke and/or tear gas at a shooter wearing clothes making him harder to see, whether or not the crowd has started panicking yet. I'd be surprised if one of their own would be officially sanctioned to do the same. if Colorado law had allowed someone to shoot him before he kicked the door open (someone let him in?) that would have been great. But I've been told Colorado laws pretty much gave him those guns for Christmas, and the parents who took their babies to the movies should know better and it's their fault their kids got hurt.
Lotsa people right on point, as always.
I phrased my news question wrong. Obviously, as I noted, you can go to news.google.com. But I'm asking for an equivalent to [link] or [link] -- a news desk to whom you'd go thinking "I want to see their opinion/coverage on this breaking story. They have good people and give balanced non-hysterical treatment." As a jumping point--I'm not assuming even Rupert Murdoc has succeeded in mapping the needs of his psyche onto every article in a paper.
Unrelatedly, LeN--do you think byword is worth the price is I also have coding needs?
Kat - Jul 20, 2012 3:01:13 pm PDT #14882 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, I am very partial to NPR's coverage as well the NYT, though they can be less timely.
Amy - Jul 20, 2012 3:04:53 pm PDT #14883 of 30001
Because books.
What's a LEO?
Zenkitty - Jul 20, 2012 3:08:16 pm PDT #14884 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Law Enforcement Officer, Amy.
Amy - Jul 20, 2012 3:08:40 pm PDT #14885 of 30001
Because books.
Ah! I'm a little ashamed I couldn't figure that out.
Ginger - Jul 20, 2012 3:10:02 pm PDT #14886 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Also, police were at the scene within two minutes.
Zenkitty - Jul 20, 2012 3:12:04 pm PDT #14887 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I learned it from NCIS!
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2012 3:20:26 pm PDT #14888 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NPR--of course, of course.
Ginger, that's amazing response time. Wait--is that amazing response time? I also read that he was shot--did the police shoot him, or was he trying to take himself out?
I think NCIS is the only show I've seen use LEO, but krav had LEO classes, so I made myself look kinda dim by asking there. Much better (and less dim) to do so here.
Jesse, you should definitely reblog: [link]
Jesse - Jul 20, 2012 3:22:27 pm PDT #14889 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I kind of want to, but it's not good stuff! It's just sad stuff.