So he’s on trial so is this really an SSCC?
How nice of the department to hire someone with a prior criminal history of assault into a position where they get qualified immunity a license to beat people.
State Sponsored Criminal Count #236: Edward Krawetz
Because if you like beating the crap out of defenseless people, become a cop, that way you’re immune from punishment.
This seems like something out of a joke, but it’s absolutely real.
Now this choir boy had just gotten out of prison and did a bunch of stupid stuff and most definitely should be charged, if he was still alive. Can someone please explain why it’s necessary to spend money and time filing charges against a dead man? What the hell are they going to do, hang the corpse?
Things like this do not inspire me to allow the legal system to regain my confidence. It actually does quite the opposite since they feel it necessary to waste time and money on a dead man. All the while criminalizing everything under the sun. If anyone has a logical reason for this please let me know.
A girl and her gun actually asked a very good question, Rifle vs. Shotgun, what’s the difference? I’m going to approach this from the point of view of what defines each and then close with the differences. I’m going to avoid the odd exceptions because it’s not really relevant for the question and just aids confusion.
A rifle principally is a shoulder arm with a barrel length longer than what you would find in a pistol.
Modern rifles use a metallic cartridge similar to a pistol but with some differences that are not relevant to this discussion. This question is a box of worms with a million tangents that you can run off with. Suffice it to say a modern rifles ammunition with have a much higher muzzle velocity than a pistol. It is worth noting you can get rifles in pistol calibers and you can get pistols in rifle calibers, but for the average condition they’re different.
The barrel is cut with rifling. This rifling causes the bullet to spin while going down range. We won’t go into why now, but there’s lands and groves with a twist that spin the bullet.
The longer barrel, ammunition, rifling, and the shoulder stock increase its accuracy. Especially at long range.
Bruce it taking out 3 inch boxes at 675 yards above.
So what about shotguns?
They too are normally shoulder fired, with a barrel much longer than a pistol.
However unlike the rifle, the shotgun has a smooth bore.
The ammunition type is much different as well. The muzzle velocities are lower than rifle rounds, however the the energy is higher because the overall projectile weight is heavier.
3 12-gauge slugs with a .223 hollow point.
Shotgun ammunition comes in a variety of types that can exploit the smooth bore. Most commonly for home defense you hear about 00-buck shot.
This has the benefit of putting multiple projectiles out the barrel at once. The objective is to increase the overall trauma and decrease the requirement on fine accuracy. Instead of a single pin prick of a hit, you have a pattern which grows in size with distance. A shotgun can be accurate, however they are no where near as accurate as a rifle.
So the two big differences between a rifle and shotgun is the bore of the weapon, smooth or rifled, and the rifle shoots a single projectile at once while the shotgun can fire multiple projectiles in a single round.
A side note: Often people claim that a shotgun is better for home defense due to less of a chance of over penetration. Thing is, no matter what, with the exception of bird shot, that bullet is probably going to keep going unless it hits a stud.
Well how bad could it have really been?
As usual in these types of instances the officer has been placed on administrative leave. That way he can resign and maintain his prospects for future employment. Seriously what does it take to get fired immediately? I might not care if it wasn’t for the resignation game.
A note for the home owner, get a gun, learn how to use it.
State Sponsored Criminal Count 235: Jesse Miller
Because when a cop decides to break into a house while drunk and assault the residents, no immediate action is necessary.
Seriously with the way Seattle PD and the Seattle City Attorney are behaving when crap like this happens I’m both happy and pissed off.
So I’m happy that a corrupt officer has finally been held accountable, doubly so he did it to himself with the barrel of his own gun saving the public the costs of prosecuting him. Now why would I be pissed off I hear you ask, well that’s simple.
Know what a tragedy is Chief Metz? The abuses your department is delivering to the law abiding public, the behavior of your police officers, and the all out corruption displayed by your department. Then again maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, maybe he was innocent and just caught in the cross fire.
“He did not do that,” Metz said.
The officer was followed in his car after work and stopped by police just outside the city limits.
“There was a search, and we found a quantity of the narcotics,” Metz said.
Well there went the caught in the crossfire theory. There is a time to stand up and say, “We Fucked Up! Here’s what we did wrong, this is how we’re fixing it.” This department lacks the ability to air its dirty laundry and continues to act as if for some reason it is exempt from the rules of lawful behavior. It appears that Deputy Chief Metz is just considering this a tragedy because the guy got caught and then committed suicide propelling the incident to the front page.
State Sponsored Criminal Count HM: Deputy Chief Nick Metz
Because it’s a tragedy when one of our officers gets caught, doubly so when he does something to cause it to end up in the news.
via Joe
Wait, the city is suing him for requesting public records. Well maybe he was just pestering them with BS requests.
Seattle PD is arguing that they are caught in the privacy law, what fails me though is these videos are a matter of public record. There are admissible in court as evidence. The only reason I know of privacy laws being involved is if the victim has been sexually assaulted. But then we see the real motivation behind these efforts. It has nothing to do with protecting the privacy of the public and everything to do with protecting their corrupt police officers.
Wonder why they don’t have to release videos until after the statute of limitations? Could it be a game of cover your ass kids? Remember this is the same department who shot someone in the back. This also isn’t their first rodeo in the count either. Three or more times is enemy action.
State Sponsored Criminal Count 234: Pete Holmes
Because when an officer beats someone, hold on to the video and delay it until it no longer matters.
Weer’d came up with an idea that I think will work better than any meat space idea. Today he gave the first reminder and posted a comment at the end.
That being said if you don’t have a blog of your own, I’d be perfectly
willing to post your picture on January 8th. Just attach it to an email
to weerdbeard gmail com, and make sure to include how you’d
like to be addressed online, and I’ll post it on January 8th with my own
official picture!
I am going to extend the same offer. If you would like to post a picture and don’t have a place to put it send it to Weer’d or myself at (vigil.picture at the-minuteman.org). I will continue to update the post adding pictures as they come in.
Know someone who’s interested in learning to shoot and defend themselves and family? Well A Girl and Her Gun are putting forth a generous offer to pay $300 towards the training of a lucky female shooter.
You’re still here? Go there now or send your friends that might be interested.
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