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fight_your_friends t1_is55pt1 wrote

Damn, town must have a ton of cops if they can spare that many to just sit outside a hospital.

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euroman12003 t1_is5fhh0 wrote

That’s not one department, that’s 6 other police departments and probably a dozen troopers and major crimes, but I see you want to be a stickler for this bs. Go ahead.

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Mauiie t1_is577tu wrote

Edgelord strikes early. Now onto the next negative comment while contributing nothing to society.

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CecilTheGod t1_is58nph wrote

Lol as if comments even show up on reddit anymore

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fight_your_friends t1_is5a2qr wrote

It's a genuine observation. Wild that three cops get shot and the reaction is to stage all the cops outside a hospital.

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Pickle_Slinger t1_is6940a wrote

If 3 of your friends/coworkers had just been shot and two were dead, you wouldn’t go to the hospital? Not sure why that’s so hard to understand

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andrewjm222 OP t1_is5e7dq wrote

I get what your saying but I can’t imagine what’s going through their heads. I know that the surrounding towns took over patrols and dispatch for the night and into today so I’m sure they wanted to be their for the families

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NotRoryWilliams t1_is5i37s wrote

Okay, but think about this rationally instead of emotionally. What is the basis for this perceived need for heightened security? This wasn’t a comic book villain hunting down cops out of some weird vendetta, it was an armed suspect with nothing to lose trying to escape justice. Why would that indicate a broad threat to the hospitalized cops in particular, or cops in general? This seems like a bunch of armed individuals being “on edge” and reacting disproportionately, increasing, not decreasing, the odds that someone else is hurt or killed. Not to mention this triggers my own pet issue, cops working extra overtime and therefore being armed and driving cars while sleep deprived.

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NotRoryWilliams t1_is5jjun wrote

That doesn’t make it any less a gathering of sleep-deprived armed men in an emotionally compromised state.

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WhenTheDevilCome t1_is5aybv wrote

Sure... but without referring to the size of the town, how would that number be unusual? Quick check suggests one hundred patrol officers for a city of sixty thousand people.

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tetoffens t1_is5a8j7 wrote

I've only lived in big cities but there are always cops at the hospitals where I'm from. Hospitals are breeding grounds of crazy behavior or where people who just did something crazy wind up.

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fight_your_friends t1_is5abr0 wrote

I'm not talking about a couple, read the article.

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tetoffens t1_is5albw wrote

I'm curious, do you think every officer is on duty at the same time? I think you're seeing that they're in uniform and thought they were working a shift. They're in uniform to pay respect to their colleagues.

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fight_your_friends t1_is5avet wrote

In my experience, they don't ride out in government vehicles with lights on while off-duty. At least you went back to skim the article a bit this time.

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