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    How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop's Point of View
    How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop's Point of View
    How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop's Point of View
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    How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop's Point of View

    By Gerard Beatty

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    How Not to Get Shot by the Police – Synopsis
    Police shootings and their aftermath have captured the attention of this country for the past few years. This book is about that moment when an officer and a suspect come together in a brief but life threatening moment for both of them. Web sites links of actual shootings dramatically illustrate the points made by the author in the book. This in unique!
    What brought them together from the psychological, sociological and cultural point of view? It is written with the hope that a deeper understanding of both the conditioning of the suspect and the officer’s need for safety will help us prevent many of these events in the future.
    We will analyze the factors that affect the decisions of those on both sides of the gun. These situations also have a destructive aftermath that affects the entire community and nation.
    The book examines factors such as training, education, the media, politics and the culture of crime, poverty and drugs that determine the tragic outcomes of shootings and the riots that follow these events.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGerard Beatty
    Release dateJan 14, 2019
    ISBN9780463623497
    How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop's Point of View
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    Gerard Beatty

    The Author has had five careers and counting. He started as a cop walking the beat in Harlem. He moved up the ranks very fast to the rank of Captain with the NYPD and had a wide variety of assignments including: In-Charge of a Detective Squad; Supervisor of the Vice Squad in lower Manhattan; Lieutenant in Charge of the first experimental Street Crime Unit in Bedford Stuyvesant that was so successful that the idea was implemented city wide and is now an important part of every major department in the nation. As a Captain in the South Bronx, he was responsible for the investigation of many police officer involved shootings and other unusual occurrences in the Bronx. He also wrote major parts of the Police Manual including revising and editing the disciplinary procedures for the NYPD along with his friend Joe D. McNamara. The author, as producer, along with then Lt. Bobby Burke created the first “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” training film in the U.S. called “Moment of Decision”. It was used by as many as 150 other departments to train officers. The writing and creation of 14 TV training programs called “The Police Commissioner” along with speeches for the Commissioner was another major accomplishment. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of his life was raising five children as a single parent while running a private security company employing over 140 people, going to the State University of New York for his graduate degrees and working full-time as a Professor all at the same time. The best is yet to come.

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      How Not to Get Shot by the Police - Gerard Beatty

      HOW NOT TO GET SHOT BY THE POLICE

      Gerard B. Beatty

      Copyright ©2019 by Gerard V. Beatty

      California, USA

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. This publication is protected by copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form by any means including Electronic, mechanical, photocopying, and recording or by any other means. For information regarding permission write to: gbphantom-1@yahoo.com

      Web site: gerardbeatty.com

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Note to readers:

      For a full understanding of the issues presented in this book please go to my Web Site: gerardbeatty.com where you will find all of the web links in the electronic version listed by Chapter to facilitate a greater understanding of police shootings and their aftermath.

      You can click on those sites on your computer or iPad, etc. The web sites are very dramatic and necessary for the best reading experience.

      Gerard V. Beatty

      This book is dedicated to the men and women of Law Enforcement and to the New York City Police Department to which I owe so much.

      Thank You

      Gerard V. Beatty

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1: Moment of Decision: The factors that influence a Police Shooting

      A Brief Analysis of Recent Shootings

      Police Attitudes and Conditioning

      Drugs

      Education and Jobs

      Nature of the Offense and Police Response

      The Aftermath of a Police Incident – The Greater Tragedy

      Chapter 2: Controversial Police Shootings

      Police Shootings:

      Trevon Martin Case

      Eric Garner Case

      – Change in options

      Michael Brown Case

      – The Aftermath

      The Alfred Okwera Olango Case

      A Noble Gesture or Suicide by Cop?

      The Keith Lamont Scott Shooting

      The Laquan McDonald Case

      Terrence Crutcher Shooting

      Chapter 3: Don’t let the children fail. If they do, they might find themselves at the wrong end of a police firearm

      A Personal Story

      Educate or Incarcerate

      – A tragedy in the making

      Keeping kids from failing

      – Proposal and Grant Writing Position

      Shifting funds from the Prison systems to the Schools

      Charity begins at Home - Raising Money

      – Student’s Responsibility -The Carrot and Stick Approach to Change. (Behavior Modification)

      The positive approach- The carrot

      Negative consequences for bad behavior – the stick

      Chapter 4, Use of Force: Victims on both sides of the gun

      Statistics on the Use of Force

      Fatal Shootings by the Police

      Police Officers assaulted and killed

      Police suicides

      Chapter 5: Police Selection, Training and Reform (Getting rid of Rogue Officers)

      Standards for Selection

      Police Training

      Using Controversial Shootings as a Training Tool

      Mental Health Training

      A Hot Line Proposal: - Getting Rid of Rogue Officers

      Chapter 6: The Constitution and the Use of Force: – A Short Summary

      The Use-OF-Force Continuum

      Chapter 7:Stop and Frisk: Taking guns off the street and reducing the Homicide Rate

      Racial Profiling

      Chapter 8: Policing the Inner City

      The Inner City

      Making it out of the Ghetto

      – A Prayer for the Inner City Child

      Role Models in the inner city

      Unlawful Acts by Police Officers – The Aftermath

      Chapter 9: Race, Politics and the Police

      The Liberal Side of Politics

      The Conservative Side of Politics

      Race

      The Aftermath of Police Use of Force

      The Courts and the Police

      – Tennessee vs. Garner

      Creating an atmosphere of violence

      Chapter 10: It is not your color, your occupation or your Religion

      Prejudice against the Police, Blacks and Muslims

      Common Factors in Controversial Police Shootings

      Conclusion: The Few Taint the Many

      Chapter 11: Lessons Learned –How not to get shot by the Police

      Common Sense Instructions: (with example cases)

      Don’t aim an object or gun at an officer

      Don’t run from the police

      Don’t Resist Arrest

      Follow the Officer’s Directions

      Don’t make any Sudden Moves

      Don’t engage in Criminal Activity

      Don’t Drop out of School, No Matter What!

      Mentally Ill are at greater risk

      Don’t be Poor and don’t be Black

      Chapter 1

      Moment of Decision: The Factors that influence a Police Shooting

      A young police Sergeant and his driver park their marked car outside a Dry Cleaning shop on the West Side of Manhattan. The Sergeant has his uniform pants and jacket draped over his left shoulder and the driver grabs the door handle and opens the door for his boss. They look up in shocked disbelief as the clerk behind the counter has his hands raised and a black male with a gun is backing out of the store as they enter. Both officers pull their weapons as the man with the gun turns to face them with the gun a couple of feet away and pointed directly at the officers. The male suspect looks more surprised than the officers and time seems to stands still for precious seconds. The officers fire and hit the male at least six times. He does not fire and falls backward. He dies instantly.

      This event happened in the 20th Precinct where I worked as a newly promoted Sergeant in the 1960’s. It is not unusual and these events continue to happen.

      All shootings are preceded by multiple factors that bring officers and perpetrators together in situations where they both must make instant decisions that often result in death and lasting pain for both sides in the shooting incident.

      In that particular case, the deceased African American male was out of work and had a family with three children to support. It was shortly before Christmas. He was broke and like most people needed money to buy presents for the kids. He knew that the gun he carried was a fake and could do no harm. Desperate people are unpredictable. The highest rate for armed Robbery takes place in December for a reason.

      The officers were blameless but were greatly affected after the facts became known. The Sergeant wanted to talk to the victim’s family but knew that his thoughts or regrets might add to family suffering.

      The shooting raised no concerns in the mostly white neighborhood. There were no protest marches and no civil or criminal action taken against the officers.

      Never the less, the confluence of factors that lead to the shooting could have been changed so that the incident may not have occurred.

      This book examines racism, protests, criminal justice and social reform and recent police shootings that have made the National news with a view toward creating conditions that would avoid these tragedies. I consider myself an expert on these kinds of events having experienced police shootings in every possible way. As a Lieutenant, I along with other officers produced the first or one of the first Shoot, Don’t Shoot training films in the United States. It was titled Moment of Decision. We duplicated several real shooting events that happened in New York City and used those to train officers before they were assigned to patrol. One of the proposals I make in the Chapter on Police Training is to use some of the recent controversial shootings to illustrate possible alternative actions that might prevent some but of these tragedies.

      https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-beatty-25069136

      As a Captain, I had to investigate many officer involved shootings and other events that the Department labeled as Unusual Occurrences in the South Bronx.

      Disciplinary action or a recommendation of prosecution or re-training might take place in a police involved shooting incident. My friend Joe McNamara and I wrote or revised all of the disciplinary procedures for the NYPD. He became the Chief of Police of both Kansas City and San Jose, California. He was at our house for dinner with his wonderful wife shortly before his untimely death

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