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Originally Posted by Northendzone
Always find it interesting though how many cops need to be involved in an incident like this. I'll bet at one time there must have been 30 or some of them sitting in their cruisers working on the case.....
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"Working the case" is probably a stretch as well. I am guessing the "shooting team" and any sort of tactical and crime scene units are the only ones needing to be working in the aftermath (which is what is was by the time 90% of those cruisers got there). Most of these are just other cruisers from the district or those cruisers with nothing else going on. As one of the above posters said, you had cop cars coming from 10+km away fishtailing down Deerfoot.
Though I am sure "shooting" and "at officers" likely coming across the radio has everyone dropping everything, and everyone from that district figures they should be there, it seems any other cops with nothing else going on guns it to these types of things as well.
Also, either poor article writing in the above posted article or poor police work...story talked about the cops firing into the cab and "stray" bullets missing the passenger...did the cops really just start firing into the cab when they saw the guy with the gun?
I realize it was a stolen truck, and I also hope they knew that no one else innocent was in that truck. As with the incident in GP earlier in the week with the truck stolen with a baby in the back, how horrifying would that discovery had been?