So after a lengthy debate on the issue on facebook, I decided to share with you the crap people are reading and take it as face value without looking any further into the matter. www.addictinginfo.com has published an article on their site exclaiming that "Indiana Assem. passes law that allows homeowners to kill cops" Then I proceed to tell said FB friend that the headline and article are biased and does not give the right to a homeowner to kill a cop, but moreso to protect the homeowner from illegal entry to your home without legal justification. While I agree this does create some confusion to the ill informed homeowner as to what is justifiable, this article does EVERYTHING to confuse a resident of indiana over his or her rights under this bill... Who is doing the injustice to the people?? Shitbags that write biased slanted pieces or crap-erature like this.

 

grab some popcorn and enjoy...

 

 

http://www.addicting...olice-officers/

and my response to her was to red the following article.. and remove the emotional rant stirred by the original article and read the facts as stated.. and not word-spun by some anti-cop v "gun-toting nut job" stance. This article seems to portray the facts in a less emotional sense and cut down to the meat and potatoes of the bill.

 

http://www.reporter-times.com/stories/2012/03/04/state.841529.sto

I guess LEO's will be even more on edge when they go into houses now. To the LEOs on these forums, is there anyother way we can make your job more life threatening please let us know and a law will be made to make it that way. Stay safe!

That law has me dumbfounded.

That law has me dumbfounded.

 

I'm sure the 4th Amendment has the same effect on you too.

I'm torn. I'm all for civil rights, especially 4A. And I do believe there needs to be some "teeth" involved for violating it; however, I'm not so sure that this is on the right track. LE is used to people capitulating regardless if they are in the right or wrong, if they don't things usually end badly for the civilian. There will be no judge onsite that will say, "OK mr homeowner, you are in the right, go ahead and push that cop out of your house". What will happen is the homeowner will get the crap beat out of him or worse.

 

IMO a law that provides penalties to LE for making bad decisions, like executing an unjustified search where no RAS/PC or warrant was involved would be a better alternative. This will change the , violate the suspects rights, and we'll see what we can get away with/ sticks in court methodology.

I am a proud supporter of the law enforcement community, as well as my own rights. I think what aggravated me more was the blatant regurgitation of an article calling it a cop killer law. It may be an op ed but ones duty to look objectively at the facts on both ends of the spectrum and not just some hate fueled ignorant rant only citing a small fraction of the case. This led me to a long drawn out conversation eventually trying to get me to justify a persons rights vs a cops life which I would certainly not agree with the trade off. I cant stand biased journalism. You should have a duty to report the whole case as it stands and not just a harsh one sided diatribe because people like the one I spoke with spread this ignorance without checking the facts to other people as fact.