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Originally Posted by OptionZero
"Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. “Reckless” conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved. The accused need not intentionally cause a resulting harm or know that his conduct is substantially certain to cause that result. The ultimate question is whether, under all the circumstances, the accused’s conduct was of that heedless nature that made it actually or imminently dangerous to the rights or safety of others."
That's why it would be difficult to sustain a claim.
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Please elaborate. (sorry if i wasn't entirely accurate with the bolds)
What circumstances in particular do you feel would excuse the officer for his misconduct?
Unless you can bring up additional rationale to defend the cop (which would be interesting for discussion),
I don't feel that the given circumstances would have been sufficient justification to excuse the officer's misconduct.
All the girl did was say the "f" word.
Is that such terrible provocation?
In response, the officer put the girl's father in a life threatening situation.
when speaking to the dispatch, officer was more concerned about expressing having taken offense at the profanity than to save the guy's life.
he obviously felt the need to vent was more important than doing his job & saving a man's life.
Yeah the said officer has had a number of positive commendations,
but that doesn't make him any less guilty of the mistake he made this time.
His positive and long record could be used against him if anything.
If it follows that the officer is an accomplished veteran of the force, he should theoretically be more than prepared NOT to loose his cool over some teenage girl blurting out profanities, in panic.
The officer's conduct was unbecoming of a professional.
I don't think it's fair for you to say our opposition to the said cop is a 'knee jerk reaction'
I think as long as we are reasonable in our assessment of the situation, it's ok to form opinions.
The evidence here seems pretty reliable, and it's definitely not in the cop's favor.
Last nail in the coffin was when the police chief admitted that cop was at fault.
In all fairness, both parties were at fault.
However, I'd like to think we hold 911 operators to a higher standard than random teenagers.
On another level, I'd also like to think we hold PD's to a higher standard than individual officers.