Bob wrote on Jul 11, 2008 4:28 PM:Tazer would have worked well.

scott wrote on Jul 11, 2008 4:41 PM:couldnt just let the guy have his drink and be,i hope that charge gets dropped

They Run... wrote on Jul 11, 2008 4:54 PM:They run because they know the officer won't shoot.

paul wrote on Jul 11, 2008 5:05 PM:Shoot 'em with a bean bag blast.

yep wrote on Jul 11, 2008 5:32 PM:If he would have tazed him or shot him with a bean bag, everyone would be asking why he had to use so much force for someone drinking. Everyone is always so critical of the police and they have no idea.

hmmm wrote on Jul 11, 2008 5:36 PM:Tri City not good enough?

Dude wrote on Jul 11, 2008 5:37 PM:This neighborhood is the arm pit of the city...

To Scott wrote on Jul 11, 2008 6:25 PM:It's illegal to drink or have an open container in your vehicle especially on public property and highways.

DD wrote on Jul 11, 2008 6:35 PM:Tri City??? The officer wanted to live...

to scott wrote on Jul 11, 2008 8:27 PM:ya, let the guy sit in his car and drink. then, when he's done he can drive away and kill somebody. SMART COMMENT!

To All Ignorant Posters wrote on Jul 11, 2008 11:25 PM:just a normal guy having a beer...or a recently paroled criminal getting up the nerve to kill his ex-wife inside her apartment...or a gang member about to shoot somebody...or ad infinitum. If you're a crook in Oceanside and run, your gonna get chased. I'd bet this cop saved somebody else's life. Thank You.

Victoria wrote on Jul 12, 2008 8:12 AM:Geeze People!!
Officer Poorman has been with OPD for many years. Used to be a motorcycle guy. He is a wonderful man. I will pray for his speedy recovery. Keep your alcohol in your back yards world! Have some respect for me and my kids driving home from a late movie.
Did someone actually say above to leave the drinker alone to enjoy his beer? And not chase him down? Yeah whatever. Good job, again, Officer Poorman, I will pray for your speedy recovery.

Not amused wrote on Jul 12, 2008 8:20 AM:Officer, here's to a full and speedy recovery.

Skypilotusmc wrote on Jul 12, 2008 10:23 AM:Thanks for the encouragement to all who gave it. This officer is my son. He enlisted in the USMC at the age of 17. He was promoted to Sgt at 20 (kinda of unheard of). When the US went into Afghanistan, he repeated volunteered to go with other Marines. But was continually told "he was to valuable to the Marine Corps where he was." Just like when he was in the Marine Corps, he was just doing the job that he was trained to do, what the people of Oceanside pay him to do. Oh yes, he scored highest on the entrance exam out of 400 applicants. He and his family were supposed to come back to Ohio as of today, Saturday. But now it will be a while longer. I'm very proud of you son and all your fellow officers. Semper Fi; Dad

Lisa wrote on Jul 12, 2008 10:44 AM:Victoria, Where did it say it was officer Poorman who got hurt? He's the spokesperson.
Thanks OPD, great job, and a speedy recovery for the injured officer.

esteban wrote on Jul 12, 2008 11:27 AM:NCT didn't like my comment about the anticops rejoicing and also finding fault in what the officer did...hmmm, truth hurts don't it?

Jim wrote on Jul 12, 2008 11:33 AM:To "Skypilotusmc and officer" -
RIGHT ON! You know what the rest can do.

to sky pi wrote on Jul 12, 2008 11:41 AM:you should be proud, God bless him

Dave from Oceanside wrote on Jul 12, 2008 12:39 PM:To Skypilotusmc: Thanks for the good job raising your son. We appreciate his service to his country and to Oceanside. By the way tell him most in the community would have supported him tazering the bum.

To DD wrote on Jul 12, 2008 2:12 PM:Tri City hospital is not a trauma hospital, palomar or scrips is where the helicopter flys you, they can pick you up at tri city but will take you to a trauma hospital.

Roberto wrote on Jul 12, 2008 8:50 PM:I wish this officer a speedy recovery...He obviously did what was necessary and has the entire communties backing....No one should not disrespect law enforcement when they are performing their job correctly. How about hiring some cops with spanish surnames? Just an observation for all the xenophobes.

Victoria wrote on Jul 12, 2008 9:41 PM:Lisa,
You may be right??? I guess I saw Officer Poormans name and assumed he was the officer involved. Skyp, can you verify?

wrote on Jul 12, 2008 10:27 PM:TriCity is not a trauma center. It's best to take injuries like that to a trauma center.

Keep up the great work wrote on Jul 13, 2008 6:46 AM:They are policemen. A policeman is a composite of what all men are - a mingling of saint and sinner, dust and deity. Culled statistics wave the fan over the stinkers and underscore instances of dishonesty and brutality because they are "news". What this really means is that they are exceptional and unusual, not commonplace. Burled under the front is this fact: Less than one-half of 1 percent misfit that uniform. That's a better average than you'd find among clergymen. What is a policeman made of? He, of all men is at once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is "sir" to his face and "the fuzz" behind his back. He must be a diplomat so that he can settle differences between individuals in a way that each will think he won. But, if the policeman is neat, he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. In an instant, he must make decisions that would require months for a lawyer. But if he hurries, he's careless -if he's deliberate, he's lazy. He must be first to an accident and infallible with a diagnosis. He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints and, above all, be sure the victim goes home without a limp. Or, he must expect to be sued. The police officer must know every gun, draw on the run and hit where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip two men twice his size and half his age without damaging his uniform and without being "brutal". If you hit him, he's a coward - if he hits you, he's a bully. A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake. The policeman must, from a single human hair, be able to describe the crime, the weapon and the criminal - and tell you where the criminal is hiding. But if he catches the criminal, he's lucky - if he doesn't, he's a dunce. If he gets promoted, he has political pull. If he doesn't, he's a dullard. The policeman must chase bum leads to dead ends and stakeout 10 nights to tag one witness who saw it happen but refuses to remember. He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache - all in order to build a case against some felon who'd get dealed-out by a shameless shamus or an "honorable" who isn't. The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman. And, of course, he has to be a genius, for he has to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

A POLICE OFFICERS WIFE wrote on Jul 13, 2008 6:50 AM:A special kind of woman:
A cut above the rest,
That's A POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE,
rating her the best.

How many goodbyes are whispered,
joined with a fond embrace?
As duty steals her man,
for the danger he must face.

How often have meals been ruined,
or tender moments disturbed,
by a call for a special duty,
sparking loyalty unswerved?

It's a devil of a job,
for an angel like this,
Who, for the love of her man,
must forsake that kiss.

She can run a garden tractor,
even paint a room in need,
How she can stretch a dollar-
is a miracle indeed.

She's a mother, lover,
chauffeur, and nurse,
A living symbol of:
"for better or for worse."

Rich is the man,
reaping his rewards in life,
who chose to be the other half of
A POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE.

When God Made Peace Officers wrote on Jul 13, 2008 6:55 AM:When the Lord was creating peace officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."

And the Lord said, "Have you read the spec on this order? A peace officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn't touch, and not wrinkle his uniform.

"He has to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

"He has to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half-eaten meals. And he has to have six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands... no way."

"It's not the hands that are causing me problems," said the Lord, "It's the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have."

"That's on the standard model?" asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, "May I see what's in there, sir?" (When he already knows and wishes he'd taken that accounting job.) "Another pair here in the side of his head for his partners' safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, 'You'll be all right ma'am, when he knows it isn't so."

"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this tomorrow."

"I can't," said the Lord, "I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on a civil service paycheck."

The angel circled the model of the peace officer very slowly, "Can it think?" she asked.

"You bet," said the Lord. "It can tell you the elements of a hundred crimes; recite Miranda warnings in its sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five learned judges to debate the legality of the stop... and still it keeps its sense of humor. This officer also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with crime scenes painted in hell, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim's family, and then read in the daily paper how law enforcement isn't sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects."

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the peace officer. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."

"That's not a leak," said the lord, "it's a tear."

"What's the tear for?" asked the angel.

"It's for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, for justice."

"You're a genius," said the angel.

The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he said.

Interesting wrote on Jul 13, 2008 9:01 AM:We seem to get irritated when OPD shoots, tasers or tackles, and then seem to get just as irritated when they don't. I do find it interesting that we are being seduced by Tri-City to build, build, build via a bond for a hospital that will care for us after an Oceanside Fire Dept. ride over - yet Oceanside heli-vac a cut arm via the most expensive means to the most expensive place. Perhaps there is a good lesson here! We can save tons of money ripping down a hospital and building a heli-pad. When I was in college, we tackled AWAY from the sidelines - as the coach use to say - think of it as a glass window. I would have thought this would have been easier with a drunk - considering they can't even walk heel- to- toe! Wonder what this is going to cost the city from all involved?

To Skypilotusmc wrote on Jul 13, 2008 4:11 PM:... I am retired law enforcement and military. I don,t brag about what I have done and the real heroes are dead,and on the Viet Nam Wall, and BTW I was first out of 3 thousand candidates in a major metropolitan city. Thanks for another USMC commercial,- and BTW the statement he was too valuable? Every man is expendable and can be replaced including me! Ask a WWII vet and I bet they will not brag-like my uncle who flew 50 missions over Germany in WWII on a B-17 and was shot up very bad. He never talked about it or gave commercials for the US Army Air Corps, we just don,t do that--SKY PILOT USMC!

I am sorry the officer was hurt, he was doing his job and I hope he recovers soon.

Lisa wrote on Jul 13, 2008 10:40 PM:Don't bet on the cops not shooting, they are gun happy.

jvc wrote on Jul 14, 2008 2:24 AM:The fascism of public unions is
against our public interest!
Unions were once necessary in profitable private enterprises to
force these enterprises to share in their wealth. But,
what role does public unions now have in public employment where the employer is a non-profit? Again,the question: what is the true purpose of public unions in the relationship to public service and to the relationship to the tax supported employer? We can now witness that these unions are doing nothing but being a force of self-interest that places their self-interest above the public interest!
Public union employees now are seen as the entity of who the tax paying public
is serving! The tax public now exists to serve the unions rather than the other way around! Public empoyees MUST
be forced to serve one master..the tax paying public and not the unions!To achieve this ,public unions must be outlawed!Let us take back our country from the fascism of public unions that are now dictating our public policies!

FTM wrote on Jul 14, 2008 8:05 AM:Criminal runs away - - - in any other city the criminal would get shot. That's why I keep telling you guys we get our money's worth with the OPD. They run, chase, climb, catch taggers! (NO other police department catches taggers!) These guys and gals are really good! And for you ACLU crowd just look at the criminal lives and lawsuits saved by these hard working cops! We have the best cops in the state - and they respond fast too! I dare every citizen to test me - if you are witnessing any kind of crime or disturbance just call police dispatch at OPD and just watch how fast they respond. In fact I beg ALL of you to CALL CALL CALL alll the time! The more calls the better! Do you know your HELPING the police when you call them about a crime in progress? THEY WANT YOU TO CALL so CALL! See a tagger? CALL. See drug activity? CALL CALL! See public disorderly conduct? CALL!

Read the post again wrote on Jul 14, 2008 2:21 PM:I don't believe it was the officer bragging about his service, I believe it was his dad. Dad's do that when they are proud of their sons.

Victoria wrote on Jul 14, 2008 6:16 PM:to jvc,
Geesh, all this began because some people were wishing a speedy recovery to a wounded OPD? Lighten up a little bit. Geesh! "Serve one master"? I suppose one does think a little randomly at the computer at 2:24am, huh?

jvc wrote on Jul 14, 2008 8:55 PM:I hope you reprimand the blog of an ode
titled, a police officers wife. Much too serious!

Victoria wrote on Jul 15, 2008 8:47 AM:jvc,yes, drama, drama, drama. To each their own, I suppose, yours just struck me as angry, so it stood out.I don't like to hear or feel anger or sadness. I like to hope and be optimistic in most cases. And it wasn't meant to be a "reprimand" as you have stated, just an encouraging word to take things a little lighter is all.

jvc wrote on Jul 15, 2008 11:18 AM:Thanks Victoria! You are sweet, however,
my game is justice and we can never be
light about that! And, how can one be light with so many of us hurting these days?