How to start a petition to the Metro Council to limit use of BRPD police cars ?

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Just saw it. I noticed that the article didn't say whether the driver was made to take a beathalyzer. Strange. You'd think that a car in the lake would warrant one.

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I noticed that the article didn't say whether the driver was made to take a beathalyzer.

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Sounds like he was just taken home to sleep it off... If so, pieces of shite covering for fellow pieces of shite.

Anyone else would be taken straight to the station to be booked.

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your neighbors may like the idea but many neighborhoods like police cars parked in driveways believing that it deters crime and speeding.

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Meh, I'll take the risk of crime over looking at a trashy looking police car day in and day out.

Most of them are beat to hell and having them in the driveway is no better than having an old beater in the yard.

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Sounds like he was just taken home to sleep it off... If so, pieces of shite covering for fellow pieces of shite.

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Here's an article supporting your theory. LINK

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You guys should read a little slower maybe.

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You should learn to comprehend what you read...

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Right now, Baton Rouge Police will not reveal whether Officer Boudreaux was given a drug test or a breath test after the crash. A department spokesman said that it is standard procedure to do that after wrecks.

Tonight Betty Sue questions why police haven't bothered to take her statement. She also wonders whether the situation would be handled in the same manner if it happened to someone else.

"I think it's most concerning the fact of the matter if it was a regular person who did this, I think they would have gone straight to jail," Betty Sue said.

Betty Sue has not ruled out legal action against the Baton Rouge Police Department. We've learned tonight that Officer Boudreaux has been with the Baton Rouge Police Department for two years. It's unclear how long the investigation will take.

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Why the mixed wording.... They admit it is standard procedure, but will not say whether it took place in this case? Seems pretty easy to say "Per standard procedure, the officer was given the appropriate tests"

Maybe he was given them, but the spokesperson is a shithead. But again, wouldn't expect more from the wonderful BRPD.

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Why the mixed wording.... They admit it is standard procedure, but will not say whether it took place in this case? Seems pretty easy to say "Per standard procedure, the officer was given the appropriate tests"

Maybe he was given them, but the spokesperson is a shithead. But again, wouldn't expect more from the wonderful BRPD

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I have a crazy theory that maybe they tend not to release specific details about ongoing investigations.

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LOL, so confirming they followed procedure affects an ongoing investigation? The fact that they danced around saying they followed procedure makes this all the more suspect.

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Danced around it how? Have you worked in any kind of spokesperson or customer service capacity? Because having strict standards of how you release information is pretty common for private businesses and public entities both. I think maybe you're confusing what they actually said with the way WBRZ wants you to read it.


Let's say I'm the spokesperson and you're the news interviewer.

You ask me "Was the officer tested for DWI?"

I say "I cannot comment on that because our policy is to withhold sensitive information about ongoing investigations"

Now you ask me "Would it be a standard procedure for officers suspected of DWI to be given a test to determine blood alcohol content?"

I say "yes that is a standard procedure for an incident like that."

What I've said is based on policies that limit what kind of information I can release and the manner in which I'm allowed to release it. You can take those two answers and spin it in alot of different ways to make alot of different impressions and inferences.

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Danced around it how? Have you worked in any kind of spokesperson or customer service capacity? Because having strict standards of how you release information

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Because they wouldn't confirm whether he was given the test... That has NO bearing on the investigation. They refused to acknowledge, but said procedurally they are supposed to. So did they follow procedure or didn't they?

Its a simple fricking question, you don't have to give the results of it, just acknowledge whether he was given a breathalyzer or not.

btw, you do realize that they will state whether a citizen was given a breathalyzer immediately... Double standard much?



Unless the investigation is into how it was handled and not the actual accident. And that brings up the second issue, BRPD should not have been the ones there to handle the scene since it was involving their officer, it should have been the Sheriff's Department or State Police.

I'm sure BRPD is pissed though, think of all of the seatbelt and inspection sticker revenues they are missing out on with an officer suspended.

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This is the news media's wording of how it was handled...and also what they want you to think. Quit allowing the media tell you what to think, do, buy.

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Then go on camera and make a statement that can't be spun, since you think that is what is happening.

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All of these agencies handle their own investigations, shootings included, when it happens within their own jurisdictions, as do other agencies with any sort of knowledge or resources.

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Incidents involving officers while they are in the line of duty. He was not in the line of duty, he was off duty. If an off duty officer is involved in an incident where it can even be implied that there is favoritism, the secondary law enforcement agency should be asked to take over the initial investigation.

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Yea, cause there's not another Officer there that can step in and write tickets.

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Someone doesn't like jokes... I take it you are a LEO