Respects to those who lost their lives, especially officer Inn, and his family, his loved ones, and all those who were impacted by this tragic day.
Protocol for domestics, would like to understand training that goes into the police force for each situation and possibly educate or train people to be a bit more swift when encountering something so dangerous.
Watch starting @6:07
As it is narrated in this video, this officer had previous military background.
Observe the difference between the way the other officers respond to the situation, vs the military officer.
I believe if this same level of serious training was implemented in the police force, far fewer officer fatalities would occur.
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This is just for learning purposes, not to shame the officer or the police force as a whole. When there is a domestic violence situation, knowing the subject is reportedly losing their mind, and there is an unsaid possibility they could be armed because, it's America and everyone could have some sort of weapon. Why would you, go up to the door and just knock casually. This man has been accused by witnesses of injuring a woman who fled from the scene bleeding, and she didn't call police herself, which tells me she could potentially be very afraid of this man and what he will do- he could possibly have her child. Which, he did. And that's why she didn't call.
Obviously the situation has already escalated to a criminal case, and the suspect at this point should be under arrest before he's even been identified, everyone in that house should of been placed under arrest for suspicion of harming the woman.
But instead, the tone was innapropriate. You walked into an already very escalated situation, as if it was just, a casual day. Knocked on the door to say, what, "hey, were you beatin' ur wife? wanna put on some hand cuffs?"
To someone who's out of their mind, irrate, and harming people. I wouldn't take that chance personally, to have the arrest go so casually.
You can investigate and ask questions later, but containing the subject who could be armed should be first priority, as he is a danger to everyone else around at this point and in this case, a child.
And it should be done in the same protocol other situations are approached that involve potential gun violence, hostages, etc. As it was unknown whether the suspect was armed or if others were in the home, i.e- children in danger.
Just arriving on the scene and knocking on the door, could have, in another situation, led the suspect to take their own life and life of the children or others inside. As this commonly does happen with unstable individuals trying to kill their wives.
So in my opinion, the way this was approached was just innapropriate, and dangerous, and resulted in, death. Often I've found in these fatalaties the officer dies because of annapropriate or overly relaxed and casual approaches to situations which, for some reason it was lost on them, how dangerous they were in reality.
As you can see, military training makes a large difference, because every situation is taken very seriously and with urgency, and approached as efficiently as possible while prioritizing officer/civilian safety first and foremost at all times.
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Major props to the guy who jumped in to save the child in the first video. He could of been shot and killed, or involved in cross fire, who knows. But he chose to act selflessly with zero obligation to do so and saved the childs life.
