Last week at a convenience store, a customer took the law into his own hands.
A customer walked in on Freddie Carson, 40, who was attempting to rob the Kangaroo Express Store on Franklin St. Carson was beating the female clerk in the head with a beer bottle when the customer walked in on them.
The customer, Chris Riccitelli, once he realized what was going on, ran back to his car and grabbed a gun. Riccitelli ran back into the store and fired two shots.
Riccitelli said the clerk had knots on her head where she was being struck by the beer bottle and he thought the suspect was armed and he decided to shoot.
Riccitelli has not been charged in the shooting.
Riccitelli said "This teaches people right now that want to go out and rob stores: You never know who's going to be in the parking lot". So people who want to go out and rob, and do things stupid like this.
Freddie Carson was killed.
Less Than 1 Week Later...
We have a shooting death at a local car wash on Orange Blossom Trail. This happened Friday night and a man was forced to act in self defense.
While the man was washing his car, when out of the blue two men approached him and tried to rob him. One of the suspects made a fatal mistake and pulled out a shot gun on the victim.
The victim elected to pull out his own gun and he was able to hit one of the robbers as the 2nd man fled the scene. Police are still looking for the 2nd suspect and they feel these 2 suspects may be linked to other crimes in the area.
The robber that was shot later died at Orlando Regional Medical Center.
Street Justice, I have posted before that people should never take matters into their own hand and let the police deal with these situations. After all that is what they are paid for. But…
People seem to be disappointed in the police and I can somewhat understand why some people are frustrated and feel the need to take matters into their own hands and not involve the police initially.
I can personally relate to some frustration with the police. Like for example, when I reported my house had been broke into and a gun (among other things) were stolen it took the police department over 4.5 hours to even show up to my residence.
4.5 hours to even show up. Granted, I realize there was no immediate danger according to the police rules so that made the call a lower priority, but 4.5 hours for a single officer to even show up at my house.
Of course with the police automatically declaring the call was a low priority, I would have like to known what would have happened if the criminal had carried out his original plan. His intention was to rob my house and kill me. Thank God the second part did not happen. But that was his plan since I had called the police on him for dealing cocaine in my neighborhood; he decided I should die for attempting to get him in trouble.
None the less the police automatically said the crime was over and since no one was in immediate danger they would get someone there when they could.
A friend of mine had a bad experience with the police as well. He had taken in a homeless kid and was trying his best to help out the kid. Needless to say the kid likes to party and have a good time and was soon in some minor trouble for marijuana.
When he finally called the police for assistance with the kid, the living situation became violent between them, the police arrived and my friend said they talked to him like he was the criminal. He was embarrassed in front of his neighbors and even felt like he was being threatened by the police at times.
The man took in a homeless teenager because both of his parents were killed in a car crash and he had been on the street with no place to live for months and the police had the audacity to treat this man like he had done something wrong.
The police finally told my friend that if he did not evict his roommate, they would do nothing to help him out. Needless to say they did nothing. He wanted and needed help getting his roommate into a treatment program or at least baker acted to start a treatment program of some sorts since the kid was threatening suicide. The police made such an impression on my friend; he said it would be a “cold day in hell before he ever tried to help the police again”.
My friend had actually stopped to assist an officer as he was being beaten by a criminal. My friend pulled the criminal off the officer so the officer could finally get the man handcuffed. Now he has lost all respect for the police. Because of one officer and his bad attitude and instead of being there to serve and protect, he was offended that my friend even called the police for help with a violent situation.
There are so many horror stories that could be told about the police and the bad attitudes they appear to have these days. But the one that gets me the most is why can they not even speak when spoken too? I just find that behavior rude and ill mannered.
It appears that most of them think it will help maintain the reputation the police must maintain and help with the intimidation factor that an officer must have.
When I was a cop, I could talk to anyone, anywhere and anytime and still maintain my reputation and still keep the intimidation factor alive. But today they seem to think talking to the people that pay taxes to have them on the streets are not worth the effort it would take to say hello. An officer that cannot even speak when spoken too is just incomprehensible to me.
The best part of being able to talk to anyone, anywhere and at anytime was too fold so to speak. Some days I would just stop and talk to the people in the neighborhood where I worked and see how they were and just talk to them, and the 2 fold part of this was when a crime did take place my next stop to see them would usually result in information regarding crimes that had taken place in the community and that information lead to many arrest and with those arrest came a decrease in the crime rates in the neighborhoods in my area.
Now days when police ask people what happened, how many people actually are forthcoming with information? How many times have people watched a crime occur and when the police arrive they tell the police they know nothing about what happened.
And it all boils down to people have lost respect and trust in the police. People have become tired of the attitudes of the police and elected to turn to street justice to solve their problems and not involve the police unless absolutely necessary.
Anyway, what can we do? This is the day and age that we live in now and I guess since we spend millions a year to have a police department all we can expect is an officer with a bad attitude and no sense of caring or compassion for the victims they deal with.
Too bad police officers are not held accountable for any customer service satisfaction.
I know where I work if I dared treat a customer as bad as some of the police officer treat victims of a crime, I would be terminated on the spot.
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