You have a right to feel safe in your own home, to know that if you are a victim of crime you will get a prompt response from police and their best efforts to get justice for you. More and more we are hearing stories of people taking the law into their own hands and though that can go wrong quickly, can you really blame them? The Spotlight takes an in-depth look at vigilante justice, plus what law enforcement leaders say needs to change to improve police response and safety in Washington state.
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8:56 Consider the reality, and if your life is worth a car, then go be a bigshot tough guy…But you best be serious once you draw, and best be accurate too, otherwise you are a problem yourself. Train if you cary
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We need vigilantes. We need the Mafia back too. Then the streets will be better off. Tired of the ghetto clowns destroying everything, I wish someone would destroy them.
Fire this reporter.
Crime is up this year and police are way down. NO SHIT. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE TO BLAME.
So how are people supposed to believe that police will show up in a timely matter and protect you?
Self defense is not vigilantism. This is what you get when you defund and demonize police!
the better part of the west coast can slide into the pacific and I would not lose any sleep
If the police wont do the job we PAY them to do, then we need to stop paying them. Like any other employee, if they dont do the job you hired them to do, you fire them. And policing belongs in the hands of the people, not the government, nothing in the Constitution gives the government its own private army to foist on the people enforcing political will instead of laws. And the government seems to think it is separate and above the people, and the laws are rarely turned on them because they control the levers of justice.
Prosecutors don’t prosecute Criminals anymore, anyway. If you’re just a Citizen going through life the best you can and have to kill a Criminal, especially with the wrong demographics, you’ll do life pretty easily.
Cops are fucken useless!!! PATHETIC ASSHOLES…..All bullshit, bad policing!!
Bullshit cops won't do a thing
One bad cop can destroy the trust people have in all cops. But there is a hell of a lot more bad cops than just one. I'd rather carry a gun and be my own protection from bad guys. I don't trust the police.
Everytime a junkie looses his wings a herb grows in his place
The sarge. Just said it. You will get in more trouble than the actual criminals. 👎shoot them s.o.b.'s, the police
Don't care about protection of your property! They just like to be road pirates and abuse their jobs!
BS they were probably around the corner smoking crack themselves!
Check the calls and dispatch yourselves!
Lies most likely!
But you most likely don't really want to know the truth because it would make your thin blue line thugs look bad!
When people start resorting to vigilante justice it just shows that the government has failed. The government has only a few requirements and the protection of life, liberty and property are foremost of those requirements.
I would hate it for some dumb ass come to my home. MOTHER FUCKER'S YOU BEST BELIEVE THIS YOU BETTER GET MY BIG ASS BEFORE I BLOW YOUR PICE SHIT HEAD OFF
People are not taking extreme measures. People have figured out they have the right to own a firearm and the right to defend themselves. People also know that the police will be there after the incident is well over and that the police can and will blame you for everything. The police do not understand nor do they know the laws, so they just falsely arrest people that are innocent.
Be Careful of how you vote!
If fentanyl was in the car, then it has to be Totally Cleaned in order to be safe.
Police have no duty to protect….;. Have you been watching the NEWS? Self-defense is the ONLY DEFENSE.
This is not a crime issue this is a politician issue. Solve the issue by getting rid of the problem.
How about each and every crime victim growing a backbone and HUNT DOWN AND BURN OUT THE ROACH MOTELS? Roaches only do their thing when there are NO CONSEQUENCES! But you get what you vote for or passively except. Next time you walk the streets covered in "human" shit or get attacked, call a crackhead
That cop was lazy. You can always do prints and eliminate the victim’s.
Good 4 him. History shows, time & again, WAIT for the COPS and a LOT of innocent ppl DIE.
What a garbage way to tell the story of people defending themselves since local law enforcement won’t do their job and district attorneys won’t prosecute criminals for crime. Not sure why I expected better from a news station that couldn’t get the audio in stereo.
A cop is a last resort. Cops will kill the victims.
I commend people who stick up for themselves and authorities should let people do it. Even when copyate out of hand.
Cops are legal bullies and don't care about us
We need vigilante justice.
These all look like perfect examples of “Community Policing” to me. I love seeing people starting to exercise their God given rights.
It is not vigilante if it is self-defense or preventing immediate harm to others and any gun is faster then the police and this is nothing new being prepared is not looking for problems and if u do use force it better be warranted don't listen to the wok liberals Thay will get you killed. The BBQ story is epic if u know nothing about it look up the vids about it. And to whomever shot that girl on highway 2 you will be found we have lots of cameras on highway 2 not just dot cams
Yalls are living in a dreamland if you think the democrap politicians care. You get what you vote for!
Armed Democrat. See you on Election Day, you MAGA coward cowboys 👌🇺🇸🌊🌊
You notice the cop threatened the public if they take action to protect themselves/property. Another cop with a shitty attitude. You have every right to look for your stolen property without worrying abt what the gov is gonna do to punish you. Just do your job, and leave the citizens alone.
Personally, I think the biggest fear of “vigilante justice” is what the public may start with law enforcement. Qualified immunity lets cops go as far as killing anyone and even if another cop is watching, there’s no justice for the public.
I bet if it was one of those cops car that had been stolen, then they wouldn’t be chasing victimless crimes. There’s no money to be made in catching car thieves, but there’s money to be made in drug arrests. Just like this guy said, “criminalize drugs again.” That makes no sense. We don’t have the manpower to catch car thieves, so let’s make more things criminal, create the possibility for more crime, more laws to enforce. How does that make sense?
If we stop the inflow of drugs from China via Mexico we wont need to spend so much $.
I live in S. Central Texas. Voting wont work if Dominion machines are not destroyed.
800 imagrantes a day are being dropped off 3 miles from my home.
China has a "police station" in NYC" …Wake Up America. The Trojan horse is here!!!!!!!!!
Wake up America!!!!
Self defense is a right. No one is being held accouantable for lawlessness. Fight back!
Police are afraid of being imprisoned. Thank you Biden and China.
See how nuts Seattle is? This is literally their train of thought.
Civilians defending themselves = vigilantes
Criminal getting caught = freed the next day.
This state loves criminals more than anything, it's what keeps people like chinsly in his seat.
Sorry but you idiots in the Pacific North West listened to BS of ANTIFA and BLM and ate it all up! You defunded the police, you had your “summer of love” changed all the laws to keep criminals out of jail, and what did you expect would happen?
It’s time to call The Rangers again…
Vigilante? This is going to happen more and more!
Police, and "Law Enforcement" in general is continually proving to be more
trouble than it's worth. They obviously do not care about Citizens at all-
whether kneeling on a drug dealer's neck until he dies, leading to two years of
horrible strife; legitimate, upset Citizens and opportunistic scumbags burning
down cities, looting millions in merchandise, and murdering dozens- not one arrest
was ever made, or subjecting a handcuffed woman to a speeding train, nearly killing her-
to being so obviously corrupt, and purposefully failing to find a car containing
the remains of a 16 year old girl for 2 weeks in 14 feet of water, telling searchers
not to look there, to planting drugs on people, Racial profiling innocents, while criminals walk by, following obviously illegal & unlawful orders- they just don't care about anyone but themselves.
Buy a Firearm, become proficient in it's use- and protect yourself. It is your
Almighty God-given Right, not some creepy daughter-molesting, hair sniffing, pedophile owned and operated appointed Government allowed-for-now thing. The Supreme Court finally came to it's senses- and now it's "legal to carry" but be wary & afraid to use? That's just silly.
When seconds count- the "Authorities" are hours away. After word gets out- criminals will wise up.
You don't need some roided-out, dog-shooting, erratically driving psychopath to
"accidently" kill you, or your Family, and be held totally unaccountable.
Let them hand out their bogus money generating traffic tickets.
Well! You dont need more cops! You need cops who works for you and not the goverment! Stop sending People to jail for a parking ticket do police like easy crime to gett high score on solved crimes!
G-D GIVEN RIGHTS ! NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS Exist… the Constitution is supposed to defend OUR God given Rights .
It didn't used to be like that. A call to police talking about a gun being involved it would usually invoked a rapid response from damn near every LEO on duty with the local agency and some officers from the surrounding jurisdictions . They were in route, code 3, all at once, with body armor, weapons drawn ready for a gun fight. I guess it may just be a good example of the Pussification of Americans. Even affecting the law enforcement community.
Charles Bronson needs to be in the north west.
And it should be 100 percent acceptable. We should be able to confront with appropriate force to halt a crime occuring against us. Being a criminal should be an extremely hazardous profession that can include death
400+ cops showed up to a call not long ago and did nothing! Yep we need more! More taxs more cops, more more more!
Bs reporting! No justice was found, these are just cases of people using there rights….. screw off fox