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How to handle a problem
Knoxville TN: a police officer, mistakenly thinking that if you have a CCW permit you MUST carry concealed, grabs, frisks, and threatens to arrest a permittee who was carrying openly.
The Chief of Police sends an apology, and a promise that officers will be given additional training in firearm laws. Although not in the story, the officer involved probably got some private criticism, if not a chewing out. That's how you handle things.
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So ...
Exactly when does every felon that cop arrested in the past get informed of his public admission that he "makes stuff up" in order to perform arrests?
Posted by: Kristopher at September 23, 2007 12:18 PM
Any officer that professionally and politely detains a citizen until some question of law and public safety about which the officer is ignorant is resolved- well, an apology from the chief AND officer would be nice.
False arrest and assault is something else though- that ought to be suspension, arrest, let the courts sort it out, then have commission pulled.
So far, this is a lame response by the chief, unless it's his policy that threatening false arrest is a viable tool of his force.
If these "bad apples" really are just a small fraction of the force, lets sort them. If assault and threatening false arrest is policy, let's know that too.
Posted by: Robert at September 24, 2007 06:26 AM