Officer doing speed check hit by car on Comm. Ave.

BOSTON -
A Boston police officer conducting radar speed check was struck by a vehicle he signaled to pull over on Wednesday.
The officer was hit in the area of 2010 Comm. Ave. Another officer saw the incident.
Police said the driver of the car was trying to pull over when the car’s brakes failed. The officer was struck and thrown onto the hood of the car.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metr...ve/-/11971628/13422570/-/12i4pt6/-/index.html

Hope he heals up quickly!

Speedy recovery!


When you read this, you can't help but think: I wonder if the driver was BSing when they said they had brake problems. I guess the leaking brake fluid under the car in this pic explains it though....

Life lesson to the newbs. Don't stand in front of cars you are trying to stop.

Speedy recovery

We all do dumb shit on this job and/or bad shit happens to us because of dumb luck. Either way I have seen too many guys stand in front of cars they are trying to stop so the advice is sound.

While Maybe not the smartest thing to stand in it path we have all done things that may not have been the best idea.

Speedy Recovery to the Officer.

Prayers for the Officer.

+1, We've got enough primetime drama trained douchebags out there critiquing us every day, knock it off and support your brother officer.

You're probably right but I have to agree with the doctor on this one. I've seen it a number of times back there, officers standing in the street to get a vehicle to stop. I wish a speedy recovery to this officer also but, standing in the street in front of a moving 4000 pound car driven by someone who's probably texting or talkin on the phone... that's just plain crazy.

Speedy Recovery

Looks like it might be Texas:

I look at it this way: We all get alittle tactically unsound out there once in awhile. It could be due to being overworked, sweating your a** off in the hot sun, freezing your a** off, thinking about the bills you're trying to pay or a million other reasons. You need to have a built in "self check" to snap yourself out of it. It's not easy. I have made more mistakes involving my own safety than I would care it admit. That being said I refuse to second guess (Unless it's in a private closed door training/evaluation type forum) an officer who is injured or even killed for his or her percieved "tactical mistakes" such as NOT wearing body armor, getting hit by a MV while standing NEXT to a violators car or while sitting in the cruiser, standing TOO close to a suspect prior to an assault, standing 12 inches ONTO a raodway to pull a speeder over, driving too FAST or doing something as simple as being ON your computor with three other officers having breakfast unaware of your surroundings...right before all of them were shot to death. Remember anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback and frankly I'm suprised that some members here would post things that all can see while this officer is hurting. I hope this isn't the road we are taking the next time a cop gets shot. Rant over..............

Speedy recovery brother!

Unfortunately in our profession if we make a mistake, the results could be disasterous and very public. While we are far from perfect, although the public thinks we should be, we need to be "on our toes" as often as possible.

I don't think any of us are looking to second guess or Monday morning quarterback another officer in a sarcastic way. However, if we could learn something from an incident that has already happened, than that's what we should do. That's called progress and that's what we need in our profession, otherwise we are destined to repeat history and the same thing is going to happen to others when it didn't have to. Us talking about it is quite different than the general public talking about it. We obviously have much more expertise on the subject and can more empathize with each other.

Several years ago I began a "Debrief" thread in order to see how you guys handle them. I was quite surprised to see the many negative responses. A debrief, or summary of an incident, is supposed to be a learning tool, not a disciplinary or negative thing. The same philosophy applies to something like this.

This x100

This forum is too quick to assume that someone is shitting on other people when in reality we should all be learning from the incidents posted here.

LA I remember that thread, A lot of these things, funny enough boil down to an east, west thing. Debrief, The Bum Rush, Staying quiet about incidents like this thread. Right wrong or indifferent the departments back here are so into tradition that for a lot of things "that's the way it's been done for a hundred years why change it." When I got on the job 27 years ago we were for the most part the first to wear vest, we took a lot of gruff, but now it is encouraged or at least not discouraged. Slowly but surely we are moving into the 90's.

It's a New England thing imo.

Also a debrief thread is a great idea. If the thin skinned folk get butthurt than fuck 'em. The best way to learn from this job is through our mistakes and bad luck.

Done it myself, and on details one hand, two hands up step in front of the vehicle. I usually catch myself and say wtf did I just do. I guess its just instinct to put yourself in front of it to stop the vehicle no matter how crazy it seems at the time.

L A Coppers Thread:

http://www.masscops.com/threads/debriefs.66747/page-2#post-374175