Tasers are great, when you can use them, but unfortunately, they’re not that useful on their own. In the States, most cops don’t use them, because you can’t take a taser to a gun fight, and you have no idea who has a gun. Most Canadian police forces will have someone do the first approach with a taser, while another…

Riot shields are 5 feet long and weigh about 20 lbs. :/ They’d work great in an open space but be useless in an apartment hallway. (where would you throw it if you needed to ditch it quickly to go hands on with someone? If you dropped it in front of you, you’d trip over it. If you dropped it behind you, one of your…

This is a case where gun control would save these people’s lives.

They have to use neutral language until they determine both guilt and/or the sequence of events in a court of law.

From a law enforcement tactics perspective, the shooting of LaGrier sounds completely justified. A baseball bat is a weapon that can kill or inflict grevious bodily harm and unless you have a taser (which…

This is a tough one, because from the sound of it, while the officer would be justified in shooting LaGrier for his actions (a baseball bat is a deadly object, i.e. it can kill or inflict grevious bodily harm, and there really are no other options other than to shoot if the person has already hurt someone with it or…

Nope, if you tip him off that you’re on to him, a lot of the evidence can get sabotaged and then you have no chance on charging him and making them stick. It really sucks.

Mark, they literally do not get a second chance to try again, because of double jeopardy. If there is any evidence that is not thoroughly documented, logged and accounted for, the perpetrator’s lawyer can get the case thrown out and detectives are not allowed to regroup and try again.

From experience, for a case of this size (+10 victims, multiple incidents) a minimum of 9 months, and more likely to be 2-3 years. That’s with 2-4 detectives working on it full time or near full time. Keep in mind that a department cannot devote full resources to a single case for the following reasons:

If you’re not comfortable pulling over, but don’t have the means to call the department’s non-emergency number (aka, you’re focused on driving or don’t remember what it is and don’t have the means to look it up), put your blinkers on and wave to show you’re acknowledging them, turn off the blinkers, put on the…

OKPD issued a statement saying they supported the verdict.

There’s a difference between “knowing” someone commited a crime and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This is drilled into juries. The evidence has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime was committed. Likely there was fragmentary or circumstantial evidence for those 18 charges so they went with the ones…

A lot of predators get a rush from doing those things and “getting away” with it. They love the power they get from being able to subtly make someone, usually a woman, uncomfortable and for that person to have no viable or safe recourse for the behaviour.

Another example of this would be things like the subtle bum…

No. My grandfather left her explicitly in control of the fund. I’m over the age limit to use it any more too. I’m doing good though, even without a “ real” degree, so I just avoid her unless I want to visit my grandma. She’s a very unpleasant person. Our last unavoidable interaction was me outlining a trip itinerary…

I didn’t really expect one but it was one those moments where you realize how petty someone is going to be. I had gotten her a small gift and I hadn’t openly declared that I wasn’t talking to her. I just wasn’t initiating any contact or responding to emails.

The sad part is that I can think of two people in my extended family who are exactly like that. One of them (an aunt) tried to do that exact same thing to me.

She was in charge of the fund my grandfather set up for all the grandkid’s education. I wanted to attend a technical college that has courses directly relevant…

Actually, that’s what I had to do to my husband too. I told him I couldn’t trust him [to get anything done], and that made a hell of a lot bigger impression on him

HE’S not being thoughtful at all. I agree with your mom wholeheartedly.

A lot of people forget that grief can take different forms and manifest itself in different ways. Some people have it manifest itself as numbness or shock. Others weep uncontrollably. Some people don’t have the full implications of it hit them for weeks or months and don’t have a typical “grieving” reaction until…

Go to Victoria - very little cold weather there and cheaper than Vancouver.

This guy sounds like a master manipulator. He knows exactly how to get out of doing anything and then gaslighting/making you feel bad for asking him to be a grown ass adult (which you should not feel bad about. AT ALL.) Basically, you just have to let him take the drop for anything he doesn’t do or forgets to tell you…