"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
What I don't understand in all of this is up to the point of when things getting crazy it was obviously just two people trying to do their jobs and doing what their supervisors demanded. Why not get their supervisors talking to each other and sort it out. She was clearly trying to comply with the cop's request by contacting various supervisors, it wasn't just her being belligerent.
As a cop I would be worried that if the draw was done illegally it would later be inadmissible in court too.
Paul Cassell's take was pretty interesting: http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commen...s-complicated/
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The Cassell op-ed is enlightening. If the officer hadn't lost it this could have ended without all the drama.
The article I linked to is from a libertarian publication that leans anti-cop. I'll leave it to the SLPD to sort this out. I doubt that officer will ever be back on the blood draw detail, however.
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Another reasonable solution given the apparent impasse would be to have the hospital do the blood draw but retain possession of it until the issue could be sorted out, or they could get a warrant, since time was of the essence regarding his potential BAC.
Union doubling down on Wubbels incident......
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=45952173&nid=148
“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.” -- Harry S. Truman
"You never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal." -- Jewish Proverb
"Three-time Pro Bowler Eric Weddle the most versatile, and maybe most intelligent, safety in the game." -- SI, 9/7/15, p. 107.
Hartney's comments deserve a laugh track behind them. What a stooge.
I've spoken to officer Payne myself and he said, 'Yes, of course I could have done things differently.' But once he made the decision to make the arrest, he needs to follow through. And he did follow through,"
Based on what little he says he has seen, Hartney believes Payne gave Wubbels ample time to peacefully put her hands behind her back before arresting her more forcefully.
"I would say yes, because in that video I saw, I could see that she was informed that she was under arrest. I saw her swat officer Payne's hand away using her hand. I saw her back up. I saw her spin around. There was lots of movements there," Hartney said.
He also noted that "any resisting of arrest, it's embarrassing and it does not look good. There's no way it ever can. It's odd to say, but known criminals are easier to arrest than a first-time offender because they know the process: they turn around, they put their hands behind their back, we put handcuffs on them and escort them to the car."
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Payne terminated. Brown demoted. Appeals and lawsuits likely to follow........
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46118645&ni...tenant-demoted
“Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.” -- Harry S. Truman
"You never soar so high as when you stoop down to help a child or an animal." -- Jewish Proverb
"Three-time Pro Bowler Eric Weddle the most versatile, and maybe most intelligent, safety in the game." -- SI, 9/7/15, p. 107.
That seems a little harsh, but maybe I haven't followed the story close enough.
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FWIW, a guy I trust who is familiar with Payne had a very low opinion of him before this happened as an officer.
I mentioned elsewhere that I don't think the sentence he has received (as dealt by public opinion) truly matches the crime, meaning he has been so publicly castigated that he probably won't be able to get a job anywhere. However, I also believe he probably should have lost his job with the SLCPD. Guys going nuts in a non-hostile non-urgent situation should probably not be out there protecting the public. Hopefully that distinction makes sense.
This seems to fit here better than anywhere else.
The NFL Stops Indulging a Dangerous Narrative
By Jason L. Riley
May 29, 2018 7:20 p.m. ET
Is the National Foodball League’s new national-anthem policy a sop to President Trump or a nod to the millions of football fans who were beginning to think the people in charge of the country’s most popular professional sport were losing their way?
After two seasons of sheepish thumb-twiddling, Commissioner Roger Goodell announced last week that players will now be required to stand for the playing of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” or remain in the locker room until the anthem has been performed. No more kneeling before the television cameras to protest this or that social cause ahead of game time on any given Sunday. Teams will be fined if players violate the new rule.
Mr. Trump, a harsh critic of the player protests, offered support for the new policy and called for the league to go further. “I don’t think people should be staying in the locker rooms,” he told “Fox & Friends.” “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem. Or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there. Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country.”
It’s doubtful many Americans believe kneeling for the anthem is a firing offense—let alone a deportable one. And the Supreme Court has held that such protests are constitutionally protected. Mindful of First Amendment values, the league is wise to give the athletes safe harbor if they don’t want to stand for the anthem. The protesting players, who say they are calling attention to police treatment of black criminal suspects, among other causes, are free to showcase their higher consciousness at other times and in other places. Just not on the field before kickoff.
Mr. Goodell said in a statement that the goal of the new policy is to “keep our focus on the game and the extraordinary athletes who play it—and on our fans who enjoy it.” That makes perfect sense. What’s odd is how long it took for the league management to realize that it was out of step with so many ticket holders and viewers. A Yahoo Sports/YouGov survey released last week found that 53% of self-described NFL fans support the policy change while only 32% oppose it. The general public supports the policy by a 16-point margin.
Those numbers haven’t moved much since Colin Kaepernick, a former backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, first took a knee during the anthem at a preseason game in 2016. Polls have consistently shown that Americans oppose this behavior. Mr. Trump isn’t the only person in the country who tunes into the NFL to watch, you know, football.
But the protests have been more than an annoying distraction for sports fans. On a more substantive level, they have been used by political progressives and the mainstream media to advance a dangerous antipolice narrative at odds with the available empirical data. An increase in the coverage of police shootings, thanks to social media and cable news, has been presented as evidence of an increase in the number of police shootings. Statistically rare and isolated incidents are offered as evidence of an epidemic.
In fact, police use of lethal force has been falling for decades. Police shootings in New York City are down by more than 90% since the early 1970s. In Chicago, shootings involving police fell by more than half—to 44 from 107—between 2011 and 2015, according to a database compiled by the Chicago Tribune. That means police-involved shootings represented just over 1% of total shootings in the Windy City in 2015. Over the same five-year period, police in other major cities with sizable minority populations, including Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia, resorted to lethal force less frequently than Chicago police officers.
A recent study published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Surgery assessed more than a million service calls to police departments in North Carolina, Louisiana and Arizona and found that cops used physical force in the course of arrests less than 1% of the time.
Writing earlier this month about the study’s findings, the Manhattan Institute’s Rafael Mangual lamented “a media landscape that regularly devotes front pages and opening monologues to graphic cases of police force, against racial minorities in particular” without providing proper context. “Despite the slim chances of being subjected to police violence, many Americans continue to harbor fear of the police, substantially attributable to near-constant coverage of isolated incidents.”
The NFL’s indulgence of this false narrative perpetrated by the political left has contributed to this undermining of social trust. Even those of us who don’t watch football should be grateful for the new policy.
Appeared in the May 30, 2018, print edition.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nfl...ive-1527636018
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
truth can be stranger than fiction
I thought this was a very thoughtful bit of soul-searching by David French, who seems like very honest and compassionate writer.
Why I Changed the Way I Write about Police Shootings
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...anged-writing/
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
It’s not bad, although I still think he’s throwing out all kinds of stuff just for attention.
His statements about combat are uninformed.
An officer I work with, who I happened to train, had been in the military for years and has done combat tours without harm
In March of 2014 he and another officer were shot in downtown salt lake. He suffered injuries which kept him off working the streets until this year, and some of his injuries will never fully heal.
While he was out he was assigned to the training unit, and with his military experience he was wondering what the odds were he’d be shot in the US and not in combat
So he crunched the numbers, and discovered a police officer is statistically more likely to be shot than a combat soldier. It’s a small margin, but it exists.
Now, he mentions learning from combat soldiers. Something we already do, but at the same time, there’s a need to retrain soldiers who become police officers.
Military rules of enhancement are basically someone shoots at you, you shoot back. It doesn’t matter where your rounds hit, that’s part of war.
We don’t get that luxury. We’re accountable for every single round. Having never used deadly force, but been on scene when others have, I have had my gun and magazines downloaded in an interrogation room on camera.
So when we get a soldier in to law enforcement they often have great technical skills, but we have to teach them how to do what we do.
As I’ve always said there are bad police shootings but they’re very rare. There are instances of racial bias as well, although I think that’s is rare and continues to decrease. I don’t know that this narrative will ever stop, simply because regardless of the reason an officer takes action, someone will claim a bias, even if there wasn’t one.
The situation in Dallas is NOT a police shooting. It’s a police officer who used force off duty. While that invoked the increased investigations of an on duty incident, it certainly should not be looked at as such. (In Salt Lake an officer discharging their weapon starts 5 investigations. A citizen doing so starts 1)
I could have shot several people in my career. I haven’t. I’m glad I was able to do something else, but sometimes there isn’t. Almost every veteran officer I know has similar stories
This is always going to be a conversation. I appreciate the author changing his stance some, but I also believe there’s still more to be done so we can all be on the same page. (Salt Lake has a TON of opportunities for citizens to get involved, yet activists continue to demand control, not involvement)
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Diehard, this looks like a training failure by the Chicago PD. Fair guess?
Officer shoots, kills armed security guard outside south suburban bar
https://wgntv.com/2018/11/11/multipl...source=twitter
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Without seeing the investigation results I’d never comment....this stuff is just so complex.
Many never realize the off duty Ogden PD Officer at Trolley Square was the reported “second gunman” and very easily could have been shot in the chaos. He was lucky Sgt Oblad was a square away guy who picked up on physical clues and realized he was a cop.
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I spent most of the game tonight struggling to enjoy the Utes comeback.
Approximately an hour before the game an officer from South Salt Lake was run over by a burglary suspect.
About 90 minutes in to the game I was advised the officer had died.
It’s a small community. There are about 7,000 sworn peace officers in Utah. Word travels fast. I did not know this officer. But I know many from his department. The color of his uniform does not matter, he wore a badge and he was my brother.
The news of his death has just broken on social media....hours after we knew. I will always be a Ute, but honestly tonight it really was just a game....the outcome wasn’t really important.
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Beautifully written. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and the peace officer community at large.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Just an update now that the information has been made public
Officer David Romrell was killed in the line of duty.
Officer Romrell was 31, he had been with South Salt Lake for only 11 months. Prior to law enforcement he was a US Marine with multiple tours. He leaves behind a wife and 4 month old child.
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