Commentary: Obama's rush to judgment on police by Maria Haberfeld published at CNNPOLITICS.COM July 24, 2009.
Ms. Haberfeld's commentary and analysis left out several points including police officer's no response to question to identify himself and his badge #. According to news information Prof. Gates had asked three times, and police officer ignored the question not once but three times. Commentary Plus is mindful of dangers police officers face when they are called upon to check out possible burglary. However, what is a or the professional response by the officer once the officer knew that the person in the house was a rightful occupant, and there was no burglary. Wouldn't have been a professional response by the officer to say to the rightful house occupant that he was responding to a call for burglary, and now since there is no burglary sorry for any inconvenience, and left?
Commentary Plus would like to hear from Ms. Haberfeld regarding police officer's obligations towards the rightful occupant of a house who was the victim of a false alarm. Do police officers have any civility obligation in their book in such false alarm cases? Do police officer have any obligation to identify themselves and their badge # once asked? How many times police officer can ignore a private citizen question while police officer is in private citizen's house based on a false alarm?
Maria, please respond.
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