On 15 Mar 2005 07:37:14 -0800, greg1199{at}yahoo.com wrote:

>howldog wrote:
>> On 14 Mar 2005 12:21:29 -0800, greg1199{at}yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> >USA wrote:
>> >> What is more disgusting than having women serving on police forces
>is
>> >> the fact that no one in the media will admit the obvious -- that
>this
>> >> female (like all females) was unable to control her gun or to
>control
>> >> the prisoner and as a result other people she was supposedly
>> >> "protecting" were killed.
>> >[...]
>> >> ATLANTA - A man being escorted into court for his rape trial
>Friday
>> >> stole a deputy's gun, killed the judge and two other people and
>> >> carjacked a reporter's vehicle to escape, setting off a massive
>> >> manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta, police said.
>> >[...]
>> >> Nichols got the gun by overpowering the female deputy while he was
>> >> being led down a corridor in the Fulton County Courthouse,
>Assistant
>> >
>[...]
>
>> >If it had been a male cop in that courthouse, he might have been
>able
>> >to go unarmed, and just overpower the man he was guarding.
>>
>> maybe not. Nichols is one big bad ass.
>
>[...]
>
>> Like I said. Man deputy, might have been over-powered too. Might not.
>> Depends on the individual I guess.
>
>Indeed, he was a bad ass, and he could have kicked a male cop's ass
>too.
>
>Someone, I think the DA, gave a press conference wherein he was asked
>why he put a 5-foot grandmother in charge of an uncuffed Nichols.  He
>said something like, "Women can do whatever men can do."  I only wish
>the dead female deputy was around to comment on that, but I think she
>took a bullet to the face.
>
>If I'm that DA, I'm putting two or three of the biggest cops I can find
>on this suspect.  I'd let the PC girlstapo come after me on that one.


Maybe it's different in Atlanta, but in my neck of the woods,
courtroom security is left ENTIRELY up to the sheriff's department.

Neither the attorneys nor the judge deign to tell the sheriff's
department how to run its affairs - unless there is a violation of the
law on the department's part.



>> I wonder if we'll see a change in Atlanta over this. No more women
>> escorting big bad black men by themselves. They'll "dress it
up" in
>> some other wording than "women need additional
protection" but that
>
>I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did that, and worded it like
>that.  It would be the height of irony, assigning a protective detail
>to an on-duty cop, but I would not put it past them.  Either that, or
>they would call it backup.
>
>> will be the essence of it. Maybe they wont allow any prisoner to be
>> escorted by less than two deputies, anywhere. It'll be an effective
>> smokescreen. Our local govm't is clever like that.
>
>They could find out the number of female deputies around, then assign
>that number plus two to dangerous prisoners.  Then it would be a set,
>inclusive policy that would actually work.  It would deplete my
>department of female deputies, but they're not good for much anyway.
>
>Women can be effective at security, if there is not too much potential
>for real trouble.  I remember once that I was about to get into a
>fight, and a female guard stepped between me and my would-be opponent,
>without looking at anyone, and saying nothing.  And since I wasn't
>going to shove her out of the way, it worked.  But if I'd been Nichols,
>I'd have brushed her aside like snow off the windsheild.



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