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Wokko wrote:I'd prefer someone had shot and killed him while he was doing it. Hell I would've settled for dragged out of the car and beaten to death. Vigilante justice is true justice.
this, most go for suicide by cop, (feel for the cops) this prick was a gutless coward. put him in genPop, why should he get special treatment?
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this, most go for suicide by cop, (feel for the cops) this prick was a gutless coward. put him in genPop, why should he get special treatment?[/quote]

I know 2 cops living in Thailand who were pensioned out with PTSD after shooting someone. One of them an ex soldier finally cracked it after coming home after a shift on ANZAC day he caught 3 local hoods urinating on the cenotaph outside the Chelsea RSL. He called for backup and arrested the 3 for public offences. He went to the magistrates court in Frankston and the touchy feely magistrate said to him "This matter is trivial and the RSL has little relevance to these youths and do not wish you to present such matters to me again" Cases dismissed. He went spare and the Police Union went to bat for him and the fact was that months earlier he had shot a teenager who had ran at him with a sword and his pysch said he could no longer trust the court system so they pensioned him off. The local RSL rang Bruce Ruxton when he was the RSL boss and he got onto the Radio with Neil Mitchell or similar and gave the Magistrate both barrels. The Attorney General was not amused and she was moved to some mamby pamby job in a tribunal.

Imagine the outcry if the police had taken a shot at him and the car careered into the station or they missed and an innocent person dies from a gunshot. If society woke up and realised that arming Police has risks that a perpetrator may die , youth or not, then they may take more drastic action like ramming the car with a humvee.
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You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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Pies4shaw wrote:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-22/bourke-street-attack-inquest-hears-warning-on-gargasoulas/11728482

The inquest into the Bourke Street attack has heard a police officer made six errors on a form handed to the volunteer bail justice who granted James Gargasoulas bail less than a week before he murdered six people.

Giving evidence at the inquiry, Senior Constable Jake Semmel conceded that he ticked "no" when he should have ticked "yes" on six questions on the remand application for Gargasoulas.

The blunders included questions on whether Gargasoulas would be endangering the public, whether he had committed offences on bail and whether he had admitted to crimes.

The St Kilda-based officer said that it was "an oversight".

"I should've ticked yes when I ticked no but I did convey my concerns orally to the bail justice," Senior Constable Semmel said.
How common do you think it is for professionals to "tick the wrong box" on forms that really matter? Is this constable going to get into trouble?
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Well, he’s not a professional, he’s a police constable. I posted this rather because it tends to suggest that those who had an early crack at the (volunteer bail) magistrate might have been applying the rough end of the pineapple. The evidence on Monday will clarify that, by the looks of it.
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Yeah, but I want to know how common it is for police or health professionals or immigration officials, etc. just to tick wrong boxes and whether they get into trouble for doing it.

(In this case, are you suggesting it was deliberate?)
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"The bail justice who freed Bourke Street killer James Gargasoulas six days before the 2017 rampage has accused police of fabricating evidence to shift responsibility for the fateful decision to grant him bail.

Christos Pantelios told the inquest into the tragedy that senior police lied under oath about information they provided to him during the after-hours hearing that saw Gargasoulas released despite his lengthy criminal record and history of bail violations."


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K wrote:Yeah, but I want to know how common it is for police or health professionals or immigration officials, etc. just to tick wrong boxes and whether they get into trouble for doing it.
The short answer is, "It depends....."
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