US Army Raids Wrong Boston Hotel Room

[Wise_A]

I respect your job and appreciate what you do, but you need to stop equating being a dispatcher with being the police. It is not the same.

I'm clearly being facetious. Slow your roll.

One team.

As far as going to the wrong address, as mentioned cops do that all the time, sometimes with deadly results.

I'll take "Shit That Keeps Me Up At Night" for 600, Alex.

[kwb377]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...xico-rcna79848

This just happened, and the sequence of events appeared to unfold exactly like what several of our officer members have described...horrific tragedy for everyone involved.

I wasn't able to watch the video, just read the article...

This happens all the time. Most people don't put their house numbers on their house. And if they do, there's no "standard" for posting house numbers...some people put them on their mailbox (although sometimes mailboxes are clustered together and even if numbered, which box goes to which house?), some paint them on the curb, some post them near the front door, some put them on a cute wooden sign they got at the Arts & Crafts show and nail it to a tree in the dark corner of their yard opposite from their driveway and front door., or it's posted and blocked by a vehicle/hedges/etc.

On the other hand, answering the door by pointing a handgun at whoever is there is just fucking stupid. Even if you didn't call the police, there are thousands of reasons they could be knocking on your door at a late hour. "Hi, we got a report of a possible domestic happening in the area...have you heard anything?", "We were patrolling and noticed the window was busted out of your car...you wanna come take a look and see if anything is missing?", "Your neighbor's house in on fire...we'd like to evacuate you just in case.", "Are you the relatives of John Doe? Unfortunately, he was involved in a vehicle crash and was killed...", etc.

If I'm awoken by knocks on my door, I'm at least going to look out a window and try to ascertain who it might be before opening the door. Could be a family member, could be someone lost and thinking they're at someone else's house, or it could be police. If I see a few people in uniform, I'm not answering the door with my gun in hand. This was a case of officers looking for one dipshit but finding another.

[Eric_L]

@TC215 your post and comments are the level of dedication I hope for in gun carrying government representatives. (LE).

“It happens sometimes because we're human, but that doesn't make it okay.“ As people we do make mistakes but we all should strive to minimize them and do well, especially in this high stake area.

Thank You.

[JohnO]

Earlier in the thread I posted about a recent incident where police hit the wrong apartment.

Here is something interesting that came out regarding the guy they were after. Perhaps missing his floor gave him time to solve the taxpayers problem.

Former Planned Parenthood director under investigation for child porn commits suicide

Wanted on charges of child pornography, the former director of strategic communications at the Southern New England branch of Planned Parenthood, Tim Yergeau, 36, committed suicide on Tuesday. On April 6th, police from the New Haven Special Victims Unit investigating Yergeau raided his neighbors house by accident looking to arrest the 36-year old.

https://thepostmillennial.com/former...ommits-suicide