San Jose: SJPD mandates two-man patrol units for New Year's Eve in response to national police thre

[alp227]

Source: Mercury News

SAN JOSE -- The San Jose Police Department is making the unprecedented move of mandating two-person units for every patrol shift on New Year's Eve in response to national threats against police, authorities said.

None of the threats were specifically made about San Jose police, but rather against broader law-enforcement. Nevertheless, the department is taking maximum precautions.

"As a result of recent threats against law enforcement officers nationwide, the San Jose Police Department has made the decision to have officers patrol the City of San Jose on New Year's Eve with two officers per patrol car for every shift," reads an SJPD statement released Wednesday morning.

Police agencies across the country are on heightened alert after non-specific threats made on social media and other avenues, foreshadowing that Wednesday night would be "Kill a Pig Night" and "The New Year's Eve Massacre."

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27236424/san-jose-sjpd-mandates-two-man-patrol-units

[Roy Rolling]

1. Irony

The irony is that they are responding to the murders in NY of a two-person patrol which was of no help to being ambushed.

[notadmblnd]

2. Someone is trying awful hard to stir up unrest and provoke violence

and I don't think it's the protesters.

[GGJohn]

3. I think you're right.

If I had to hazard a guess, it's RW militia groups like what was at the Bundy Ranch.
Bundy Ranch? Every time I hear that, I think of this guy:

[rpannier]

5. Ah Al... Cliven's smarter relation

[madinmaryland]

9. Love and Marriage. Love and Marriage. They go together like a...

Dammit. You just gave me a freaking earworm!!!

[GGJohn]

10. You just made me LOL!!

[JDPriestly]

4. This is a good idea. Michael Brown would probably still be alive if Wilson had been with a

partner. Wilson would not have panicked.

[damnedifIknow]

8. Maybe but 6 officers were involved in the beating death of Kelly Thomas

So a partner may not make much of a difference.

[Helen Borg]

6. It's about time...

That cops start realizing that too many guns around is not a good thing and start lobbing against the NRA.

[hack89]

11. Policing has never been safer

You might have a point if gun violence in general, and violence against police in specific, was directly related to the number of guns in circulation. But they are not.

[Turbineguy]

7. Law enforcement is a dangerous business

It should not be done alone.