Handcuffed woman dies after deputy forgets to shut patrol car door, GA officials say

I don’t care what you believe. I’ve been issued more police cars than you have.
I promise I’ve put more miles on marked and unmarked cars and I know more about this topic that you ever will.

so make any assumptions you like the truth is not congruent with your opinion. You’ve never had a trustee or jail deputy get stuck in the back cleaning a car or a k9 decide not to get out that day. I’m certain selling ford interceptors or whatever you did was for the entire US police departments and you’re a pro.

 

Ford, GM, Chrysler. Sedans and SUVs. Each and every one of them had the inside rear door handles disabled. (Or removed, in a few cases.) Yet again: there were no exceptions. Even a couple cars that had never actually been in police service had the door handles disconnected-it was done at the factory!

 

They probably raped and murdered her, and this is their cover story

 

no. They did not. Any former or current leo who had patrol cars had an opportunity to drive one with the lock switch by the driver, should the driver need to be in the rear seat.
Make whatever claims you want but there are thousands of guys and women who had the lock option in their cars. Some cars had it, some did not it depends on how they were ordered. Unless you’ve driven every patrol car since the late 80’s you might think twice on that or don’t, doesn’t change a thing.

I haven’t even gotten into the fact that some police cars started as 4 door sedans or SUV’s and were turned into marked units at another time. many of us had cars with no protection between the front and rear seat, ffs.

in the end this clot jumped from the car and is making America a better place, but they’ll still get fired.

 

sure. They raped and murdered her but turned off the cams. Oh, wait aren’t these the guys who you say should be the only ones with guns? Since you’re making up silly things why not go full throttle?

 

Oldest was 1974. Newest was 2017. Yet again: each and every one of them had the inside rear door handles disconnected.

I owned one that never had a divider. The rear door handles were disconnected.

What caliber is your throwdown of choice?

 

In my personal view, it's irrelevant to the issue whether the inside of the backseat of the car had door handles that worked.

Everyone agrees that, if the car was working properly, the officers had done their job correctly and no mistake was made, then the door should not have been able to open.

Even if the door flung open all by itself (which I find doubtful) the woman still most likely made the choice to try to exit the car.

 

In my personal view, it is relevant to note that the police knew the woman was having a mental health crisis.
That is why she took that woman into their custody.

It's a fact they failed to securely transport a person suffering from a mental health crisis who was in their custody.
And that's why the police is responsible for their negligence.

People claiming the woman was likely to have made a choice of getting out of the car while moving and so claim it's her own fault,
are keen to forget that the fact that woman was unable to make a choice, since she was having a mental health crisis.

 

people are unable to make a choice during a mental health crisis? That’s not true at all, don’t you google things before sounding like that?

 

Must suck being a police officer making $50k-60k a year and have to deal with crazy people who kick and punch you all the time trying to handle yourself professionally without lapse of judgement or failure in every incident. I would like to see anyone here capable of doing a perfect job at all times when under the most intense pressure. I doubt a single person on this board or worldwide could handle that perfectly for years on end.

Not defending the Officer, but every single person on earth makes mistakes as it is impossible to handle intense situations with people kicking and screaming at you without imperfection.

 

Plenty of cops can't hold on to a job in the real world, where mistakes due to sheer negligence with deadly consequences can come at a steep price of losing your job and going into prison.

 

Ya. I don't see a benefit to being a police officer in this day and age.

 

Name your second and choose your weapons.

 

Unless it is proven the perp was not secured properly intentionally this won't lead to much.

 

The officers are screwed. They are responsible for their prisoner.
Forget to close the door? That is a teenager level excuse!