Police Case Scenarios

In 2014, One hundred and seventeen police officers were shot and killed by criminals. One of them was a man named Mike Davis, a police officer from Placer County Sheriff.

The New York Times reports that officer were reporting to a domestic disturbance call the morning after Christmas around the 4700 block of West Erie Street. According to police reports, the officers were confronted by an individual who was combative, and that resulted in one of the officers firing his weapon.

Police shootings are unfortunate events but whenever there is a shooting, the topic of race emerges. Police shootings have always been the highlights on news channels and there is always the racially biased narrative that keeps repeating itself yet no one seems to dispute this narrative. However, did you know that studies show a police officer is eighteen and a half times more likely to be killed by a African American male than an unarmed African American male is to be killed by a police officer? In fact, a recent “deadly force” study by Washington State University researcher Lois James found that police officers were actually less likely to shoot an unarmed black suspect than unarmed Caucasian or Hispanic suspect in simulated threat scenarios. Some would argue that there are still police shootings all over America and they occur when police officers

The desk officer was shoot in the shoulder and elsewhere, not wearing a bulletproof vest, but was carrying an extra pistol, deflecting the bullet to his leg. This officer was a seven year veteran. The second officer that was involved started shooting at Yealu, but wasn’t shot at by Yealu. After the gun fight, Yealu was hospitalized in critical condition. Police officers received a search warrant to search Yealu’s house, finding hundreds of rounds of ammunition and weapons, two assault rifles, one shotgun, and two handguns authorities said. This shooting had reached the LAPD’s fourth on-duty injury of the month.

Two police officers shot Alva Braziel, and it was allegedly 10 times. These officers were driving down Cullen Boulevard in Houston when they saw the man waving a revolver in the air while standing in the street. Officers stopped and explained to Alva that he needed to drop the gun, but he didn't do it. Houston police shared that a civilian also told him to put down the gun, but Braziel wouldn't drop it. There was no way to convince him to drop it, which then turned into the police handling the situation.

Officer Elliot Mess, 29, approached David C. Jefferson, 37, while Jefferson was walking towards the bank, holding a sawed-off shotgun covered by a long box. As Mess began to confront Jefferson, Jefferson dropped the box covering and started loading the shotgun with shells, at which point Mess shot Jefferson twice with his service pistol.

The officer may have had good relationships with people in the community that made the people feel safe when the officers came around on patrol or even when they weren’t on duty. The officers that die in the line of duty might have family that depends on them to provide food or shelter for their wife and kids. Unless there spouse are financially secure, then it won’t be so much stress on them knowing they don’t have to worry about providing for their kids or relatives. Maybe, there spouse doesn’t have a job and doesn’t have that financial stability to keep up with bills or child expenses. That’s when it can lead to stress and may start committing crimes in order for them to get money or any other stuff to help them get by. Their family might need to get counseling to deal with mental or health problems. Getting counseling isn’t cheap, it can range from $50 to $240 a session depending were you go to get those

A Philadelphia area police officer narrowly survived after getting shot multiple times when he was conducting a drug investigation.

At this point no immediate details of the shooting death of Smith had been released. No one within the community seemed to support the officer.

It was a very tragic situation, an officer should always know who/what they are shooting at every time they pull the trigger. It is a hard story to read and the radio talk amongst the police is even worse. After the officers had fired their weapons, in the graphic footage from one of the officers body cams, you could hear the two officers talking. An officer can be heard in the footage

There was recently a mass shooting in my city. A wedding rehearsal dinner was disrupted with a man running in with a gun and shooting. Ten people have died and others are still in intensive care. So far the police have questioned three different suspects and determined it was not any of them. In the meantime the killer is still out there. Where did this individual get a gun?

Cannon was caught and arrested at about 3:15 p.m. and was sent to police headquarters. Cannon killed the police officer the night before who responded to a possible intruder at a home. The police officer was pronounced dead once being taken to the hospital. Police started their process of capturing him by giving a 25,000 dollar reward for his whereabouts.

who was shot 12 times by officer Darren Wilson. It isn’t quite clear what happened, but again, the use of body cameras would tell. (Law, 2017)

A St. Louis Police officer has been ambushed and killed by a gunman. The officer was ambushed during a shooting on Sunday. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday night, a gunman pulled up in a silver car next to a marked Chevy Tahoe and opened fire. One of the officers who was involved in the shooting was a 46 year old man (no name given), who has served in the police force for over 20 years. He was shot twice in the head, but is expected to live. The officer who was killed was not trying to pull over the suspect, rather he was just driving down the road in his police vehicle. Also, evidence has concluded that the officer’s gun was never drawn. Once the suspect had shot the officer, he fled the crime. Search for the victim had involved the SWAT team, and

A police officer shot Saipov in the abdomen, but the suspect survived and underwent surgery Tuesday evening.