What's your opinion? Does he sound like a trigger-happy cop, or what? Please leave a comment.Officer James Peters, 37, who has been with the Scottsdale Police Department since 2000, has filed for accidental disability, which means that he suffered an injury on the job that prevents him from doing his job.
Peters was involved in seven shootings since 2002, six of them fatal, including the most recent incident on Feb. 14. That day, Peters shot 50-year-old John Loxas after police were called to a house in the 7700 block of East Garfield Street.
Neighbors had called 911 earlier and said Loxas had threatened them with a handgun. Peters, a former member of the department's SWAT team, was one of six officers who responded to the call. He fired at Loxas as he was holding a child in front of him.
Police said the shots were fired to prevent Loxas from re-entering the house with the child. Each of Peters' previous shootings have been determined justified through an internal investigation, as well as an external investigation by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
His previous fatal shooting occurred in March 2010, when Peters shot and killed a man suspected in a string of bank robberies. At the time, The Republic reported that the city had settled in 2009 with the family of one of the people involved in a different fatal shooting for $75,000 but denied liability.
In another case, Peters was honored for his actions in responding to a hostage situation and the hostage thanked the officer for saving his life and shooting the suspect.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Infmous Scottsdale AZ Cop Wants to Retire on Disability
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Each of his shootings had been determined to be justified. Could it be that there are dangerous criminals that need to be shot?
ReplyDeleteCould be, Greg, but when one particular cop has many times more than his fair share you gotta wonder if he's really justified. At least you gotta wonder that if you honest and not trying to spin a pro-gun agenda at every opportunity.
DeleteWhat's a fair share? In every job, there are people who lie about doing as little as possible and a few who get the work done--often in spite of and in the face of the lazy ones. Besides, this is a police officer. Your side always tells us that cops are one of the approved groups, so there's no "pro-gun agenda" to spin here.
DeleteI don't say cops are the approved group. What I say is civilian and police gun owners both need better training and screening.
DeleteThe "fair share" of justified killings per cop should be between zero and 1.
The Brady Bunch lists the police as an approved group. But I see--you care about training and screening; they are concerned with overturning concealed carry laws and banning useful magazines; Jason Kilgore wants guns out of homes. It's the specialization approach to gun banning.
Delete(That was a joke, so don't work yourself into a froth, Democommie.)
Mikeb, does it occur to you that some law enforcement officers work in more dangerous areas than others? You love to draw conclusions from raw numbers, but a whole lot more has to go into the calculation of excessive force than just X number of shootings.
"and banning useful magazines"
DeleteYou must be kidding. The high-capacity magazines are not useful for anything except fulfilling your infantile demands to be able to own whatever you want.
"Each of Peters' previous shootings have been determined justified through an internal investigation, as well as an external investigation by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office."
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah, there's investigators and then there's investigators.
Do you wonder if the Maricopa County Attorney:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/04/10/20120410thomas-aubuchon-stripped-their-legal-licenses.html
might have been too pre-occupied with his REAL mission, rooting out his and Joe Arpaio's political enemies?
Officer Peters might consider selling the film rights and I'm sure he's got a stellar future in the perpbaggin' peptalks arena.
is this a joke? who paid for this advertisement? YUCK..makes me sick
Delete"What's a fair share? In every job, there are people who lie about doing as little as possible and a few who get the work done--often in spite of and in the face of the lazy ones."
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, I can see it now. "Lazy cop A" says to "lazy cop B", "I'm sick and tired of this hostage situation--unruly drunk, mentally ill person being mentally ill-- we're gonna be here all fuckin' NIGHT!". "Lazy cop B" sez, "Not if we call Peters, he'll come over an blow this mofo away, STAT!".