Why don't you start out by telling us why you drew six guns on an innocent man driving down the street and never gave us a decent explanation.

Excellent question. Tweet that.

DITTO THAT !!! Bdeezine

This is an excellent opportunity for many posters here who wonder why the sheriff deputies do what they do. Instead of yelling from behind a keyboard they can actually go see what police work is like for themselves. And they would be able to ask a 101 questions that they ask here, but instead of asking a blog site they can directly ask the law enforcement officer.

Readers, please sign up for this if you have questions of and for sheriffs department officials.

Calling all armchair Deputies - now's your chance!

DMeyer:
Once we hear what you have to say why ask a cop? You always have the right answer I thought?

Sorry DMeyer: I could not resist:)

Don't ya just get the biggest kick out of some poster's ???

Yep, let's see police action in person... So we ALL could witness two women getting shot delivering newspapers!

Maybe the deputies can answer why it takes them 6 hours to respond to a call for service...just saying... and why they can't move vehicles involved in non-injury accidents out of the lanes of traffic like the CHP does...

@PlumCyn

I'm sure they can. Don't miss your chance.

I notice that there are references to other police departments which in essence is equal to a company with 10 of thousands employees.
Anytime so many people are involved some errors of different levels will occur. I am not condoning the shooting but that was highly unusual and if one studied the situation it was not all that impossible to happen . Hurting someone's feelings, scaring them or holding up traffic longer than one likes are simple mistakes. In a cookie factory of thousands of employees occasionally someone will drop a tray of cookies. I do realize that most of us contributors don't ever make a mistake.

Equating aiming six guns at an innocent person with dropping a tray of cookies? Not even sure how to respond to that analogy.

Bdeezine

I think Mropinion was making a philosophical point. Whatever job you do, you don't do perfect everyday all day, you and the people around you will sometimes make mistakes. Does that make you or your coworkers a bad person, evil or incompetent?

Whether you are a valet parking attendant or a neurological surgeon it's going to happen. Obviously the parking attendant mistake may not be as potentially damaging as the surgeon's mistake but the reality is that they are just human beings. Human beings have never been perfect and never will be. To expect perfection from anyone or any profession is really absurd.

What do we do when mistakes happen? Sue, like everyone in the world seems to do. There is a remedy. Ask any lawyer, oh be careful because they too will sometimes make mistakes.

DMeyer: When one's job responsibility is keeping people safe, and their work may involve deadly force, they are held to a higher standard than a cookie baker. I know mistakes are made. But when I make a mistake at work, I am asked for an explanation as to what happened. I don't get to conveniently "bury" the facts or make up stories to keep egg off my face. I think a proper explanation from the Sheriff's department is not an unreasonable request.

"I think a proper explanation from the Sheriff's department is not an unreasonable request."

Bdeezine: I completely agree, an explanation would absolutely be in order. But remember the article we are relying on was put out by the The Signal. There was no information given in the original article if an explanation was ever given. Again probably not a great idea to rely on The Signal to give you the whole story.

The cool thing is that you can ask if an explanation was actually given on March 22, you'll get it straight from the horses mouth.

MrOpinion, I actually got your analogy. But what shooting are you talking about?

Sorry to go completely off topic of the current thread, but.... If I was offered a chance to hang out with a couple of hot young male sheriffs for a day my answer would be HELL YA. Don't worry. I'm perfectly harmless. Old enough to be their mother.

@ohhyaa

Nothing wrong with speaking what's on your mind!

ohhyaa - there is something to be said about a man in uniform.......:)

Code4: I was responding to the statement by lovelife about the two ladies who were shot during the C. Dorner fiasco. It was slightly off the current subject but it increased the pool of employees.

I can see the hashtag #STARBUCKS featuring heavily in this upcoming tweetathon

Bdeezine: I wasn't trying to trivialize a shooting. I was trying to say that given enough time in addition to a large workforce something will go wrong even with the highest of standards . If humans are involved eventually something will go wrong. DMeyer: got my intention.

@Mr.0 - "If humans are involved eventually something will go wrong"

EXACTLY... ACCIDENTS WILL happen to an innocent person AND even to one of their own LEOs... Also, I bet ya that if LEOs changed their policy and held their weapons upright, even less accidents would happen...

http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/Woman-who-called-911-talks-about-day-Baldwin-officer-accidentally-shot-sergeant/-/10927008/18487290/-/2viu5tz/-/index.html#ixzz2N12zGx8P