Attention-seeking LEO shoots at own cruiser, fabricates story of being attacked

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For thus far unknown reasons, an LEO fabricated a tale that shots were fired at his vehicle. He certainly doesn’t add anything to the anti-police sentiment of some in our communities.

Authorities in Massachusetts announced Thursday that a police officer has been fired after fabricating a story that shots were fired at his cruiser before the vehicle crashed and caught fire.

Millis Police Sergeant William Dwyer told reporters at a press conference that ballistics testing determined the only bullets found at the scene belonged to the officer.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/03/massachusetts-police-officer-fired-after-fabricating-shooting-incident/?intcmp=hpbt2

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Some superbad sh*t right there. :sarcastic:

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Not surprising at all given the State. The stupid rate runs much higher on the coasts.

Dwyer said criminal charges are expected against the part-time officer, who has not yet been identified. Dwyer added the officer was a dispatcher and going to be a full time officer soon. There was no indication of the officer’s motive in reporting the shooting.

Glorification seeking poser in all likelihood.

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My three theories:

  1. People thought he was a doofus, so to ‘get cred’ he shoots at his car and cooks up a story.
  2. He was just disgruntled and shot at his car being upset. Then realized ‘uh oh’ and made up a story
  3. He was high on pills or hepped up on goofballs.

Or some combo thereof. Regardless, that was some pretty stupid stuff.

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Thankfully he’s off the force, will never be in the LE field again, and nobody was injured or killed.

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Dipshit.

Thankfully they canned his ass.

But it provides an interesting contrast.

Example 1: Ghetto asshole attacks police and gets shot for his actions. BLM assholes claim he was shot without provocation. Evidence is released to support the fact that ghetto asshole did indeed attack police officer. BLM assholes ignore evidence or suggest the officer should have submitted to the attack rather than shoot an unarmed ghetto attacker.

Example 2: Dipshit police officer claims he was fired upon during a time of crisis when officers are being targeted and killed by BLM assholes. Police investigate and determine officer is FOS and rather try to maintain the narrative they release the evidence and fire the dipshit police officer.

One group is exercising accountability and operating based upon facts and evidence. The other group has zero accountability and doesn’t give a damn about facts and evidence unless it happens to support their agenda.

We call the disparity between the values of the two groups “equality.”

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OK going out on a hunch the guy fired was black and wanted to make sure that its known that WHITE people shoot at cops also ?

most likely relates to blm movement when they dig deeper but we wont ever know

again its the guns ! this time its the COPS !

wont blame the person

Dwyer said criminal charges are expected against the part-time officer, who has not yet been identified.
The officer initially described a suspect who fled the scene after the shooting as a white male driving a dark colored, possibly maroon pickup truck, police said.

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You sure about that? I can find numerous instances of officers being fired or quitting only to pop up elsewhere. As a matter of fact, one of the officers who shot the homeless guy in ABQ had been fired from the NMSP.

http://krqe.com/2014/11/18/officer-in-james-boyd-shooting-to-retire/

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Roland “Prez” Pryzbylewski?

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This happened not far from me, and the story seemed off from the start. Knowing what LE is dealing with nationwide, he decides to take advantage of that by shooting his car, either to cover something up, or some personal need for attention. Personally, I think it will turn out there’s more to it than simply trying to cover up an accident. Allegedly there was a bomb call in to the school same day…

I’m sure they don’t go into great depth on ballistics etc during training, but he couldn’t have be so dumb as to not know it would be discovered they were his bullets. What ever his reasoning, he costs the town a lot of $$$, he put LEO and citizens in potential danger, and added negative press for LE nation wide which is the last thing they need.

Bad mojo and he deserves what he gets for charges.

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It states that his vehicle crashed and caught on fire. Any chance this douche bag wrecked his squad and to cover up his accident he shot it up and claimed he was attacked which caused the wreck?

The other theory is sound too, he might be a glory hound. One of those guys who works for a small agency with no action fantasizing he was John McClain taking down Nakatomi Plaza.

Where I grew up, we had multiple unoccupied structure fires and grass fires started by bored firemen.

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that sounds like the best theory so far :slight_smile: crash cover up

considering what some do for attention ?

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I love the resurgence in John McClain related discussions/references. Just saying.

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One of the biggest things that got our guys and gals would get in trouble for were car accidents. One guy who was fired for bribing the people he rear ended with cash not to report it. Dumbass should have just took his licks but got himself canned.

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I would love to read this bozo’s background investigation file.

He needs to be fired, arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

There needs to be a national LEO database for clowns like this, so no one else hires him.

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“He’s still alive.”

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That was my first guess. I’m not in their shoes, but seems like as bad as it is to Fleet, I don’t see how it could worse than this. Unless how he wrecked was just as genius.

Needless to say, I’m disappointed in this guy’s actions.

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There is, kind of.

In most states with a POST type system (Peace Officer Standards and Training) there is a Central Registry of officers. Agencies are supposed to report changes in officer status to the Central Registry. Our state uses letters for things such as resigned, change of status (promotion, etc.), termination for cause, negotiated resignation, death, medical retirement, retired and active. Another state’s POST should be able to check previous states where the officer was employed, they could then let a prospective agency know.

Our state decertifies officers on a regular basis, often the officer voluntarily turns over his certification, sometimes it is done after a disqualifying court action, such as a guilty or no contest to a felony, or DV, sometimes someone calls the POST and reports something an officer has done and the POST investigates. Pretty sure our state has three investigators.

There is an organization with about 9 initials that is an association of all the state directors of law enforcement training, their website has an official access only listing of decertified officers - this is to prevent officers jumping from state to state, members of the organization with an official need can, as I said access that information.

I believe that generally the certifying/licensing agencies in each state are very diligent in weeding out bad apples and ensuring they can’t fly under the radar in another state. Sometimes an agency isn’t very helpful, they’ll have a problem child and give them the old ‘I don’t want to fire you, so I’ll give you a good recommendation if you resign’ option, and there you go.

Additionally, the defrocked officer may just decide to forget that part of his job history when applying for a new job.

Just a long-winded way of explain that there are agencies very concerned with ethics and professionalism.

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Unfortunately, this does not always happen. I have investigated a few cases in which an officer from a small town committed an act that merits arrest and prosecution and I had to investigate an incident they initiated at their new agency

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Depends on where you are. I’ve completed police academies in both MA and PA.

Here in PA, part time officers have the same duties and same power as full time officers, they just do it less hours per week. There is one standard academy program for the state, and whether you want to work part time or full time, you attend the same academy for the same amount of hours. It’s extremely difficult to get a full time gig in PA without first having part time experience. The chiefs usually want to see what you’ve got before they offer you the higher pay, benefits, pension, and civil service protection. As a result, part time officers are regarded by their peers, the public, and the government as full blown cops, and not as weekend warriors or wannabe hacks. Chiefs around here usually like their part timers, because they’re usually the younger guys trying to earn that full time gig, and so they work their asses off.

In MA, it’s a little different. Their police training and certification system is, to absolutely nobody’s surprise, screwed up like the rest of the state. Full time municipal officers have to attend a 6 month, 800 hour full time academy (all day M-F). They also have a reserve officer academy that’s usually a few nights a week and runs about 300 hours total. The reserve academy teaches really only the basics of criminal and constitutional law, most of the other law classes are more FYI sessions, firearms training is optional, and there’s no emergency vehicle operation training. Needless to say, there’s a pretty big gap between the full and part time guys in terms of capabilities.

As a result, generally speaking, part time/reserve officers have less responsibilities than the full time guys and cannot work more than 40 hours a week (though they’re usually armed and have the same power of arrest). However, some of the really tiny towns actually have only reserve officers and they are expected to provide the full spectrum of police services (usually assisted by the State Police). That could have the case here.

So, in all likelihood, he was an officer with the full spectrum of duties who forgot that he only had reserve training and was driving way beyond his capabilities. He probably realized that the way he was driving and the result was going to be way past the “just tell the truth and you’ll be fine” threshold. MA is probably the hardest state in which to get a police job, and he knew he just flushed a winning ticket down the crapper. The problem is, even if he got fired, he MIGHT have had another shot somewhere else. Now, since he’s lied in an official capacity, he’s officially a Brady cop, and will never again be allowed to testify in any court.