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<blockquote data-quote="Dumbo" data-source="post: 4298574" data-attributes="member: 67762">Yep.&nbsp; I don&#039;t blame the individual police officers as much as the lack of leadership.&nbsp; Those men were just caught up in the moment, adrenaline filled, feeding off their &quot;brothers in blue&quot; energy.&nbsp; The fact remains though that this shootout was a direct result of allowing upwards of 100 police officers to abandon their post and create this mob mentality amongst them.&nbsp; Somebody should have stood up and got on the radio and told 80 percent of them to return to duty.&nbsp; There was no militia, it was 2 guys with guns.&nbsp; You had a chopper on them, you had gps on the truck.&nbsp;&nbsp; Make the appropriate decision to reign in your resources and act intelligently staying back and monitoring from a distance until they ditched the truck.&nbsp; This lack of leadership was directly responsible for creating a firefight during rush hour traffic.&nbsp;&nbsp; In ANY profession where there was absolute gross negligence and people lost their lives there would be consequences, this is no different.&nbsp; And this is coming from someone who has more connections with police officers as friends and former coworkers than the average person.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dumbo, post: 4298574, member: 67762"] Yep. I don't blame the individual police officers as much as the lack of leadership. Those men were just caught up in the moment, adrenaline filled, feeding off their "brothers in blue" energy. The fact remains though that this shootout was a direct result of allowing upwards of 100 police officers to abandon their post and create this mob mentality amongst them. Somebody should have stood up and got on the radio and told 80 percent of them to return to duty. There was no militia, it was 2 guys with guns. You had a chopper on them, you had gps on the truck. Make the appropriate decision to reign in your resources and act intelligently staying back and monitoring from a distance until they ditched the truck. This lack of leadership was directly responsible for creating a firefight during rush hour traffic. In ANY profession where there was absolute gross negligence and people lost their lives there would be consequences, this is no different. And this is coming from someone who has more connections with police officers as friends and former coworkers than the average person. [/QUOTE]

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