Examining one cop's remarkable victim impact statement

[wolfmann601]

Having been shot in the line of duty and then standing before the suspect in a Court of Law, I can relate to the sheer human emotion felt by the Officer.

It is times like this that Cops become more human than Cop and the public sees a man or a woman as more of a human being than Police Officer.

While I was careful not to calll the person who shot me a Piece of sh*t, everyone there knew that I felt it.

Human emotion, it does effect Cops at times also.....................

 

[MORIMOTOM]

Had she chosen to make her statement as Ms. Jennifer Moore, resident of Phoenix, Arizona, then it wouldn't matter. But, then again, had she made her statement as Ms. Jennifer Moore, I doubt we would be having this discussion nor would there be the story on the site the OP linked to. Why? Because a lot of Ms. So-and-so of Such-and-such-City give impact statements every day and call their attackers all sorts of things and we don't have stories about them or threads about them. So what makes this one different? It is the fact that she is a police officer and she chose to give her statement speaking not as Ms. Jennifer Moore of Phoenix, Arizona but speaking as Officer Jennifer Moore of the Phoenix, Arizona Police Department. If you will google up her full statement, you'll see her "wrap herself in the badge" pretty throughly. She certainly choose to speak as and identify herself as a police officer. You can't have it both ways. You can't wrap yourself in the badge on one hand and then not be responsible for that on the other. If she wants -- as she clearly did -- the court to think about her as a police officer, then she needs to realize that with that comes responsibilities to her department, her community, and her profession. If she wants to be more than Ms. Jennifer Moore, then she has to realize that she is responsible for more than Ms. Jennifer Moore.

that's fine. we can agree to disagree. i see your point, and i think you see mine. this is basically just a difference of opinions regarding the use of a statement.

This is a completely different topic, but police officers often do like to go on about how they "face death every day... put their lives on the line..." all of that. But, according to OSHA law enforcement just actually isn't that dangerous. Trash Collector is, according to OSHA, much more dangerous and deadly. And the leading cause of deaths and serious injuries among police officers is not shootouts with bad guys but traffic accidents.

you have mistaken information for understanding. police work is not the deadliest job in the u.s. statistics are what they are.

statistically, it is also true, that the majority of officer injuries and deaths are the result of traffic related incidents. but to lump all those deaths and injuries in to one category labeled "TRAFFIC" is also misleading.

some officers are injured or killed simply as a result of careless and/or reckless driving.

many are injured or killed responding code 3 to emergency calls and killed by another driver who is not paying attention.

many are killed during traffic stops when a driver is not paying attention and strikes the officer, vehicle, or both. see my sig line for 3 chp officers killed in exactly this manner this year. actually all within 4 weeks of each other.

regarding those murdered, the number tends to be relatively small compared to those killed in traffic related incidents. the difference in being murdered as opposed to being killed while collecting garbage or crab fishing should be obvious, but in reality it is often overlooked by people just like yourself. somehow you want the raw numbers to tell the whole story.

dave grossman states it far more eloquently, but when injury or death is the result of interpersonal human aggression, the affected persons tend to be more traumatized than they would be if the injury or death was the result of a machinery accident (for example). having someone intentionally attempt to kill you has a profound affect on the psyche. people are unpredictable, and it is this that often creates the most severe stress. most, if not all, officers exhibit surprise as their first emotion when presented with a deadly threat.

the above is true not only for police officers, but for all victims of violent crime, and is especially true for personnel serving in a conflict zone. overcoming these emotions is no easy feat.

fewer police officers are killed also as the result of better equipment: ballistic vests, ballistic paneling in cars, better weapons, better training and tactics, etc. we also have better medical care. all these fortunately combine for fewer deaths, but not fewer attacks and injuries, necessarily.

 

[MORIMOTOM]

and fellas,

ill say this again. the discussion has gone back and forth from civil to outright rude, me included.

it seems to have more or less evolved in to a more civilized discussion if we ignore a couple post and runs.

lets try and keep it that way, else this get moved somewhere like political or w&c.

 

[teacher]

Examining one cop's remarkable victim impact statement.

Truer words were never spoken than when Jennifer Moore, a maimed Phoenix police officer faced her attacker in court and said, “You are a worthless piece of ____!”

Although a relative of the gunman who tried to kill her assured the court of “unconditional love” for him, Moore called out the object of that affection for what he truly is. Eyes locked on him, she labeled him for the public record as a plop of barnyard waste that needs to be shoveled from decent society.

Rough job.

I liked the judge's "impact statement" - 115 years.

One thing I do know, she conducted herself far better than I would have.

I was glad to read her and her partner are still with us.

As far as I am concerned the quotes above sum it all up in a nice neat package.

She told it like it is.... and as far as that being "unprofessional", in the big scheme of things; not in my book.