Atlanta Officer gets jumped responding to call, gun stolen

[HCountyGuy]

So this happened last night.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atl...-say/956573179

Police said the officer was responding to a call at a gas station on Campbellton Road where he found a man in a fight with a store clerk.

As he tried to take the man into custody, he was jumped from behind by a person behind him, police said.

The two suspects got away with the officer's gun and radio. The officer suffered minor injuries.

Glad the officer wasn’t seriously injured.

[Tackleberry40sw]

Now the perps have the best scanner to know where APD is and where they are going. All they need is a charger for the battery. This sounds like a planned ambush.

[HCountyGuy]

Now the perps have the best scanner to know where APD is and where they are going. All they need is a charger for the battery. This sounds like a planned ambush.

They've actually recovered the radio, still hunting for the gun and perps.

[Tackleberry40sw]

They've actually recovered the radio, still hunting for the gun and perps.

I'm glad they recovered the radio. It's getting to the point that officers are going to have to patrol in pairs.

[TGS]

Now the perps have the best scanner to know where APD is and where they are going. All they need is a charger for the battery. This sounds like a planned ambush.

Not sure what APD is using, but this is a good argument for a digital system as individual radios can be excluded from channels.

[BehindBlueI's]

Now the perps have the best scanner to know where APD is and where they are going. All they need is a charger for the battery. This sounds like a planned ambush.

Ours can be tracked by GPS and can be bricked remotely.

[mark7]

Not sure what APD is using, but this is a good argument for a digital system as individual radios can be excluded from channels.

On any half decent radio system, analog or digital individual radios can be "stunned" and rendered inoperative. Looks like Atlanta is running a P25 Digital TRS- Phase II system, so if the radio wasn't recovered it could easily be turned into a door stop.

[Coyotesfan97]

Ours can be tracked by GPS and can be bricked remotely.

I don’t think ours are active for GPS yet. They had to turn off the feature that would set off your emergency button if the radio went from vertical to horizontal. It was way to sensitive. I think GPS was tied into that. The Radio supervisor can turn a radio off pretty quickly.

[Gray01]

It's getting to the point that officers are going to have to patrol in pairs.

I will presume that was tongue-in-cheek, and if so, accurately cynical.

Agencies do not, in general, embrace two-man cars. They are "trouble makers".

Two in a car are synergistically effective; because of that efficiency they also generate significantly more "trouble" for supervisors and agencies. An officer's funeral is already planned and amortized, but they cannot effectively budget for the legal problems that two man cars generate. Funerals are cheap, and the crocodile tears and political "never again" speeches are already canned and kept in stock. The suits and the lawsuits are inherently more expensive.

[Coyotesfan97]

I'm glad they recovered the radio. It's getting to the point that officers are going to have to patrol in pairs.

We’ve done all two Officer cars before in troubled times. It’s crazy who quickly you run out of Officers to handle calls. If you run two man cars exclusively you’ve got to have a lot of Officers to cover beats.

Each district generally has one maybe two of them a shift now if they’ve got the coverage for them.