Shooting incidents in the news.

[Lon]

I listened to radio traffic for the last 30 minutes before he surrendered. You would be surprised how many of the SWAT ops I've been on where cell phones were used for much of the comm traffic. Couple of reasons. Don't need to worry about scanners and cell reception is better than radio reception sometimes. It's also easier to have a conversation about tactics/orders, etc. over the phone.

2 summers ago we had a barricaded subject shooting up the neighborhood from inside his house That village was the Bermuda Triangle for our radios. Without our cell phones, we'd have been fubar.

[TGS]

I listened to the swat operation on broadcastify.com
The bearcat was critical in evacuating the victims. They also kept discussing "pointman" which is a surveillance robot. Heavily used as they cleared the building.

What seemed dumb was how much they relied on cell phones for comms and even broadcasted cell numbers over the radio.

Even in EMS, we used cell phones for a lot of comms. Especially during the whole ebola crisis.
In addition to the mentioned convenience, consider that "we" don't want people like you listening to all of our transmissions.

[Crusader8207]

Just happened tonight, right near my work.
http://m.newson6.com/story.aspx?stor...4&catId=112042

[BaiHu]

Another white supremacist, NRA living, Rush Limbaugh listening mass shooter./sarcasm

How did we not discuss this? I couldn't find it anywhere.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/...suspect_1.html

[Andrew E]

Heard about this on morning local radio news. LASD gang folks on pedestrian stop, 2 suspects produce pistols, Deputies fire, 1 suspect deceased on scene, one in custody, 2 pistols recovered.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...201-story.html

[HCM]

http://www.ksat.com/news/sheriffs-in...g-at-gun-range

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas - The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is investigating an accidental shooting at the Lone Star Handgun Shooting Range in East Bexar County.

The shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. Friday.

Sheriff's say when they arrived they found a man in his 20s who had accidentally shot himself in his thigh as he tried to take his gun out of his holster.

My understanding is this involved AIWB. No further details yet.

[RoyGBiv]

Not a shooting incident.... More of a "chomping" incident....

Burglary suspect hides in Florida lake, where gator eats him

"He hid in the wrong place," resident Laura Farris told Bay News 9

[Drang]

Not a shooting incident.... More of a "chomping" incident....

Burglary suspect hides in Florida lake, where gator eats him

And the home owners are crying alligator tears...
*puts on sunglasses to Daltry screaming*

[LOKNLOD]

And the home owners are crying alligator tears...
*puts on sunglasses to Daltry screaming*

This could be a thing.

Later, 'gator.
*puts on sunglasses to Daltry screaming*

[idahojess]

High speed tour of Seattle after a carjacker on his third car. Note the driver of the gray Suv at the end. I suppose the SUV may have been blocked or immobilized. Scary.