"The deputy's gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting Corbitt." [More]Yeah, I hate it when my guns do that.
[Via Kevin Starrett]
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
We're the Only Ones "Doggone Kids!" Enough
[Via Kevin Starrett]
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Radley Balko has an article up about the exclusive use of the passive voice in police reports on an officer-involved shooting (OIS).
When it's not an OIS, it's all active voice: "So-and-so shot such-and-such." Subject, verb, predicate.
But when an officer is involved, it's all passive voice: "Shots were fired," "a shooting occurred," or my personal favorite, "the gun discharged." No subject, barely a predicate; no description of who bears any responsibility.
"This case is presently under investigation and when the investigation is complete we will update with a full report."
Don't bother, we already know what it will say. The officer was fully justified in shooting someones child.
That darn trigger-pulling phantom afflicts the "highly trained professional" praetorians A LOT!
You're so right RoFo . . . justified by virtue of "consistent with dept. protocols", as if a manual on sociopathic behavior compiled by and for the sociopathic Halloween-costumed caste, justifies sociopaths by default.
another episode from the "jihad on dogs"?
those police guns just cannot abide any
canines.
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