Crime Epidemic Hits New York City

Three police officers responded to a "domestic dispute" at 119 West 135 Street in Harlem. Within minutes one lay dead the other critically wounded and clinging to life by a man holed up in his mother's bedroom who, with a semi-automatic came charging from the room gunning down two of the officers before being shot by the third officer on the scene. The suspect's mother described her son, Lawshawn "One Eye" McNiel as having behavioral problems and posted anti-government and anti-police material on social media. Ok!!! Let's stop right there! The call came in as a domestic dispute and not as an EDP (emotionally disturbed person). If the call had originally come in as an EDP the officers arriving would have been more on their guard for potential violence. Plus a police sargent and the Emergency Service Units, who specialize in handling EDP calls would have been assigned on the backup. If the call had come in the correct context and proper protocal a...