{"id":3166,"date":"2012-11-10T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2012-11-10T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:24:52","slug":"lakewood-co-blue-on-blue-is-a-safety-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Lakewood, CO Blue-on-Blue is a Safety Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ofc. James Davies<\/p><\/div>\n

I read a CNN news report of a Blue-on-Blue shooting<\/a> in Lakewood, CO yesterday where one officer accidentally killed another.\u00a0 Lakewood officers had surrounded a house where shots were reportedly fired by a suspect.\u00a0 After assisting in detaining three subjects on the front porch, Ofc. James Davies went to the backyard as a rear cover.\u00a0 Another officer in an adjoining yard could see Davies through a fence, but in the dark did not visually identify him as a police officer.\u00a0\u00a0 After giving Davies commands to drop his gun, the other officer fired and killed Davies.<\/p>\n

Ofc. Davies was in full uniform at the time of the shooting and apparently did not know that the other officer giving commands was addressing him.\u00a0 It is a tragedy for the Lakewood community, Ofc. Davies’ family, and the officer who killed Davies.<\/p>\n

Some years back on Midnight Shift, I responded to a violent domestic with a knife where multiple officer surrounded a duplex with little information other than the initial 911.\u00a0 On our arrival, we did not know if the male suspect was still inside.\u00a0 A buddy of mine at the other end of the duplex later told me he saw a dark figure sneaking around the east side of the building.\u00a0 Knowing where each of us was, but unsure of the person’s identity, my buddy momentarily tracked the figure with the front sight of his pistol.\u00a0 The figure moved into a lit area.\u00a0 It was our Shift Lieutenant, who had not called on scene over the radio.<\/p>\n

We suffer from a lack of real-time information at most critical scenes.\u00a0 Because of this we have to rely on our own observations and training to be able to take decisive action in those circumstances.\u00a0 Proper threat assessment is absolutely necessary before an officer discharges his or her service weapon.<\/p>\n

An officer I know at a neighboring agency shot his firearm at a fleeing suspect who was running on the other side of a wooden privacy fence.\u00a0 It had been reported the suspect may be armed.\u00a0 He wasn’t.\u00a0 Fortunately, the officer missed, but he was, of course, disciplined for his life-threatening negligence.<\/p>\n

Critical incidents are best handled with good communication between the responding officers and good judgment on the ground by each individual officer.\u00a0 Because we follow these precepts for officer safety, occurrences like the one that befell Ofc. Davies are rare.<\/p>\n

I hate reading about tragedies like this one in Lakewood.\u00a0 The wife and two children of Ofc. Davies are no doubt devastated at the loss, and the officer who mistakenly fired the fatal bullet will certainly never be the same.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read a CNN news report of a Blue-on-Blue shooting in Lakewood, CO yesterday where one officer accidentally killed another.\u00a0 Lakewood officers had surrounded a house where shots were reportedly fired by a suspect.\u00a0 After assisting in detaining three subjects on the front porch, Ofc. James Davies went to the backyard as a rear cover.\u00a0 Another officer in an adjoining yard could see Davies through a fence, but in the dark did not visually identify him as a police officer.\u00a0\u00a0 After giving Davies commands to drop his gun, the other officer fired and killed Davies. Ofc. Davies was in full uniform at the time of the shooting and apparently did … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72,4,10],"tags":[567,568,566],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officer-down","category-officer-safety","category-street","tag-blue-on-blue-shooting","tag-lakewood-co-police-department","tag-ofc-james-davies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-P4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}