S.F. Officer Shot & Killed In Shootout

[mch]

Dec. 22 - KGO - A San Francisco police officer was shot and killed Friday night during a shootout with a suspect in the Sunset District.

The suspect was also shot and killed.

It happened around 8:40 p.m. near the intersection of Lawton Street and 25th Avenue. A police officer told ABC7 News that the officer was part of a search for a parole fugitive that had been in the neighborhood. The parolee shot at the officers and the officer shot back.

The police officer was hit in the head. He was taken to San Francisco General Hospital and was pronounced dead after 11:00 p.m.

The identity of the officer has not yet been released. ABC7 News was told the officer was a 3-to-5-year veteran of the force.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4876858

[AyatollahGondola]

Another parolee with a gun. The parole board must have stock in the misery industry.

[PeckerHead]

What was it they were saying on the news last week? 177,000 inmates, but our prisons are designed to hold 100,000. I think we'll be seeing more early releases and the crime that follows them! It was so nice to hear the Director of Prisons to say we need to throw more money at our inmate population because the majority of them are uneducated and have no job skills. At least that piece of crap didn't survive to take up our precious air! Anytime for this is lousy, but at Christmas? Sorry if I have a lack of campassion for that animal, he certainly deserves no respect! Gee whiz! We didn't even get to take the ribbon off for the last shooting!

[AyatollahGondola]

What was it they were saying on the news last week? 177,000 inmates, but our prisons are designed to hold 100,000. I think we'll be seeing more early releases and the crime that follows them! It was so nice to hear the Director of Prisons to say we need to throw more money at our inmate population because the majority of them are uneducated and have no job skills.
well, there are probably a few of them that might be saved by education, but that is little reason not do something with the rest of them which are in the majority, and the others in the meantime. Seems like they are willing to play roulette with the rest of us to see if we are willing to back another huge bond or tax increase to pay for more prisons.
What particularly disturbs me about these educational motivationists like you mentioned is that they have failed miserably at using education early on in these parolees lives in one of the most expensive venues the system in California can devise. California schools administrations by far, rife with pork and lousy with bureaucracy are as costly an enterprise that I have ever seen. Now just how did they think that failing as educators in the parolees lives at that age, they can somehow make a difference after crime has taken root and the influence of its' bedfellows has become it's parent? It would seem to me that they are just more interested in expanding the educational behemoth into more monetary lucrative fields

[WantToBeCHP]

Its so easy to get a gun now-a-days (Illegally) that people will shot at anybody, especially police officers. There should be a harsher punishment for people who carry gun illegally.

[Kevin]

Thanks to all the CHP officers that attended the funeral service today.

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_363180036.html

http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/bcn_tuvera_funeral_upd_061229.shtml

[MotorInLA]

Forget three strikes you're out... how about three strikes you're dead?! :evil:

With a recidivism rate in excess of 80%, these guys are obviously not becoming reformed citizens when they are released from CDC. With 15,000+ parolees at large in California at any given time it is clear that the CDC is unable to keep track of their convicts. :biggrin:shock:ubt:

For those who are too squeamish to deal with the idea of the death penalty, how about the re-invention of penal colonies? I am sure there are some remote deserted islands somewhere where we could drop these guys off and let them fend for themselves. :biggrin:

Well I?m done raving now?

Be safe out there and have a happy new year!

[bcjack]

Alcatraz??????????