Thread: Cop beaten and side arm taken.

I'm gonna make myself unpopular and say that while it was an unfortunate outcome for the officer, he made a bad judgement call in deciding to push for an arrest. When he realised it was going sideways at the very beginning he should have backed off and waited for another day.

The only time he should really have pushed his luck with the arrest is if other members of the public etc would have been put in immediate and serious harm’s way if the guy was left to walk around.

Short answer is he fucked up and paid the price.

Typically sole charge cops are chosen (even though you actually apply for the slot) because they tend to be a little more relaxed, realistic, calm and have a bit of experience. Unfortunately I'm not seeing those traits in this example.

Everyone makes mistakes though and ultimately he got away pretty lightly given the depth of poo he got himself into.

I hope that he recovers quickly, learns from the experience and comes back an even better cop than before.