[TheeBadOne]

Originally posted by Hawkeye6
Hindsight sure is 20/20, isn't it?

And keeping a situation in perspective gives you 20/15. You obviously are operating in a 20/200 world where you see what you want to see. Your attitude makes it clear that perhaps the Brits have it right and not all cops should have guns. If you cannot see or will not admit that it is patently ridiculous to send three cops and a helicopter (and you know a Police helicopter was dispatched to the call how?) to settle a clearly non-dangerous playground altercation ("throwing a 2-pound rock at 8-year-old Elijah Vang, cutting his forehead after he pelted her with a water balloon in April. The gash required Elijah to receive stitches." Also, can you please tell me how the call came out, you know, when it was actually occurring in real time?) )
among 11 y/o's that one old maid schoolteacher would have handled when I was a child (so you remember someone getting brained with a two pound rock?) , then you lack the perspective and judgment to wear a badge. Get it through your head, TBO. Kops (don't hold back, ad hominem and all, tell us how you really feel about "Cops") are not always right. And the more they try to separate themselves from the society that they patrol by visual and attitudinal intimidation attempts the worse they will make the situationfor themselves. (good old "US & Them" rears it's head, by your hand)