Interesting story... I've spent a lot of time in Cleveland (born/raised/in/around), and I've no special knownledge to share, other than that it has nice neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods. It's a city with subsurbs, overall "East Cleveland", to my experience means lower income, scary for us white kids after dark (when i was tooling around back in the 90's, doubt it's changed much/at all).
"137 shots fired" raises a lot of questions. Among them relates to the "monopoly of force" frequently tossed around by Stef.
Since many of those questions are unaswerable based on the limited teachings of this story, I'll broadly submit that I cannot understand the justification for more than 20, 50, 80, or 100 bullets being fired.
At any point in that span of gunfire, was the question asked if "our point has been made" or "is this working" or "are we there yet"?
I guess I'm glad to see some disciplinary action taken; based on the idea that a few firings suspensions on the north shore will cause constables across the land to think twice about emptying magazines (what kind of clips do cops carry?), i guess i would expect to see fewer of these type events, but in the end i expect this to have little or no action.
In the NFL, a much, much smaller employee pool, i'm certain that firings/suspensions/finings for misconduct weigh heavily on the minds of the atheletes when faced with a choice of engaging in misconduct, and summarily the frowned-upon misconducts are effectively squashed.
However, regarding police officers nationwide (794,300 in 2010) i'm saying this should have little or no effect.
Yes, i understand running and jumping and smashing into other adult kids is hardly comparable to the police force, but just for comparison's sake....
.... i don't know. i forgot where i was going with this. quite eloquent though, eh?
