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Las Vegas police kill victim of home invasion, Brandon Durham, who called 911 for help (abc7.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15313778

Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.

Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.

He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fine by me. There are far too many cops. The ones most motivated by money and impunity quitting because they're being held criminally and financially responsible for their crimes is the mother of all win–wins in my book 🤷

actually, there’s not enough cops. That’s part of the problem. Most departments are running shitloads of overtime to make minimum staffing.

This affects on duty behavior in a lot of ways. Tired cops make mistakes, they fuck up. They’re irritable. Sleep deprivation makes you stupid.

Being short staffed also means they’re not available for continuing training, which takes a back seat to things like actually doing cop stuff, being in court, report writing.

being short staffed means leadership is unwilling to put in the effort necessary to fire the worst offenders. They literally need every warm body they can get.

And sure, you could reduce the minimum staffing levels; but then you start having problems where cops are going from volatile domestics to answering phone calls because a cat was shitting in someone’s flowerbed and dispatch didn’t realize it was just a cat, or never mind simply having the time to sit with an EDP and talk them out of it.

Cops are far from perfect. But trust me, the world with fewer cops would be worse.

Not likely since wage per cop is the one police expense that the center right to fascist spectrum of municipal governments don't want to increase.

Besides, cop "unions" aren't ACTUAL unions that are funded mostly via union dues. They're political pressure groups funded mostly by donations from the rich people whose property cops exist to protect from the masses.

Whatever. They’re still powerful organizations and they’re still representing cops as a union. And they’re still going to oppose anything that takes from their people.

When you’re finished with your rhetoric, maybe you can come up with a plan to get your superfund-duper-big-changes done. You know. The ones that are somehow more possible than the “impossible incremental” changes.