Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:29:01 -0700 (MST)
From: thekoba  (K J WALSH)
Subject: Session 7:  Officer Involved Shootings
To: joel.olson@asu.edu
Cc: snail , thekoba , copwatch602@hotmail.com, nebukhadhnasar@yahoo.com, cbpeek@hotmail.com, community_justice@yahoogroups.com




Session 7 of the Citizen Police Academy was held last night.  There will
be a break of two weeks before the next session in observance of the Eve
of All Saints.  Session 8 on firearms and arrest tactics takes place on
the Red October.  Oh well, some holidays are more important than others to
these people :-)

Mike Ross once asked me if I ever feel like strangling the presenters of
these sessions.  I have kept an even temper through most of this course
and looked upon the police propaganda and even outright falsehoods with
some humour, and I have tried to be objective to keep the quality of the
information as high as I can, and when in class I have striven to remember
that I am there to learn, not to make trouble.  Last night, with the third
speaker, I was truly angry, and if there seems to be some lack of objectivity
in my report, that is why.

The third presenter, a medically retired Tempe police officer named
Wesley Scott Tipton, was involved in a gunfight with a citizen on
14 July 2000 in which the citizen was killed and the officer was permanently
disabled.  I will mince no words:  The outcome saddens me.  I wish Tipton
had been killed and the citizen had gotten away.  Tipton belongs in the
grave or in prison at least.  There is some comfort in knowing that Tipton
is too severely disabled to be a cop.  He will at least not be able to
do that to anyone else.  He truly earned the epithet "pig", but I'll
discuss that case in detail later.

The first presenter, Sergeant Brett Draughn of the Phoenix Police, gave
a clinical presentation of the effects of deadly force situations or
stressful situations in general on the human body.  There is the instinctive
three choice reaction:  fight, flight, or freeze.  As cops are expected
not to flee or freeze, part of the training in the Police Academy, is to
prepare them to cope with a potential threat.  In a stressful situation,
the human brain's limbic system releases adrenaline and some other
chemicals into the blood stream.  These chemicals cause physiological
changes, including increased pulse, respiration and blood pressure.
Antibodies, fat cells and cholesterol are also released.  Pulse is normally
in the vicinity of 60 to 80 beats per mnute in a healthy adult.  Under
stress this can rise a great deal, even over 200 in some cases.  When
the pulse is that high, physical strength and stamina for hand-to-hand
combat or running away are very high, but the thought process is dulled,
and fine motor skills needed to aim firearms, drive, and perform other
essential tasks are diminished.  It has been found that the body and
mind perform best in a deadly force situation when the pulse rate is
between 115 and 145.  For this reason, part of police acaemy training
is designed to accustom officers to the stress of simulated deadly force
encounters and thus keep their pulse rates from rising much above 145
when they have read deadly force encounters.

Draughn continued to say that certain peculiar symptoms occur among
officers who are involved in deadly force incidents and ranked them
from the most common to the least common:

--diminished hearing
--tunnel vision
--accelerated perceived time
--memory loss
--memory distortion

Of the last two, I think there is tremendous potential for abuse by
psychologists and psychiatrists sympathetic to the police, particularly
where falsehoods about events which would be incriminating to the
officers are dismissed as natural physiological or psychological
reactions.  Sgt. Draughn gave us a list of some books for further
and more detailed reading.  Doubtless most mental health experts
are in the pay of persons in authority, so these books may contain
extremely biased information or outright falsehoods, but for what it's
worth, here's the list:

<Deadly Force Encounters> by Dr. Alexis Artwell

<On Killing> by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

<The Gift of Fear> by Gavin DeBecker

The next speaker was a retired Phoenix police officer, J. Dauer, who
arrived walking on an artificial left leg.  He told the story of how
a gang member sniped at him with a .3006 deer rifle from a distance
of 100 metres in revenge for the death of his cousin at the hands of a
SWAT team.  Dauer had been at a traffic stop for some irrelevant
matter when he was ambushed.  He had misjudged the location of the
shooter, because one feels the pain of an exit wound far greater than
that of an entry wound, and the uninitiated tend to think the round
came from the direction it was actually going towards.  This caused a
delay in the capture of the assailant, but when the detectives actually
examined the scene and found that the tissue was pointing the opposite
way, they correctly apprised the probable location of the assailant,
and he was eventually captured.

I was not much emotionally involved in Dauer's story one way or the
other, as it was simply a conflict between two anti-social elements
(cops and drug dealers), and Dauer dwelt primarilly on the objective
informational aspect of it.

Tipton, however, rubbed me the wrong way from the start.  He talked
of how much he loved being a cop because he hated bullies and loved
to hear them curse at going to jail and gloat.  He was already showing
himself to be the worst sort of bully--the one who betrays a public
trust and acts in the name of the people.

On Bastille Day 2000, he was called to rendezvous with a woman who
complained that her boyfriend was following her around and had assaulted
her earlier.  He met her and found she had some bruises on her arms.
It is not my place here to go on an anti-feminist tirade, but I will
briefly mention that incidents of this sort where women are persuaded
by feminist propaganda and sick feminist fantasies about "domestic
violence", "stalking", "date rape", and "custodial interference" etc.
into using the cops to oppress working-class men illustrate why feminism
is the enemy of the left and does not empower women but objectively
oppresses working class people, both men and women.  

Tipton said he saw the boyfriend's car in the distance and drove over
to it.  He approached the car on foot and asked the citizen to get out
of the car.  He said, "I could see he was reading the United States
Constitution, so I knew this wouldn't be easy."  Evidently this pig
fears those who know their rights.

The citizen asked why he needed to get out of his car.  Tipton said he
wanted to ask him some questions.  The citizen said, "No, you can ask me
anything you like right here."

Tipton opened the car door and tried to pull the citizen out.  He failed.
Tipton then sprayed pepper spray in this citizen's face.  The citizen
drew his .45 and emptied it into the cop, reloaded it, chased the cop 
in the parking lot and tried to finish him off.  Unfortunately the
citizen's gun jammed, and the cop, through his training, managed to find
his and get off three rounds into the citizen.  Since cop ammunition is
hollow point, one round sliced the citizens intestines to ribbons, and he
died two days later in hospital of septicemia.  The cop nearly died
himself, but some misguided paramedics and doctors saved him.

This citizen was not anti-social or some hard core offender.  His only
prior record was one arrest for posession of a small quantity of
marijuana, and he was having some civil trouble with the IRS.  For all
we know the bruises on his girlfriend may have been inflicted in self-
defense or self-inflicted.  He had just been pushed too far by the
authorities one time too many.  He probably knew that the courts would
believe a woman over a man in a domestic violence case and that if he
was convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor, he would permanently
lose his right to keep and bear arms (a clever tool by the authorities
to disarm the working class).  He was determined to die rather than
submit to feminist slavery.  He set a good example, and he got one vile
pig off the streets, if not off the planet.

--Kevin Walsh