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With all due respect CP, you seem to be hypocritical and ignorant of police procedures.
First, I believe you are being hypocritical because you are obviously an aviator. You seem to be insinuating that all the fault lay with the police department. You seem to be unable to accept that there was wrong doing on the part of the FAA and possibly the pilots. If the owner of the plane had already been detained because of this issue, he should have made damn sure it didn't happen again. Perhaps request a new N-number? Perhaps follow through that the information had been cleared up, especially in jurisdictions he planned on flying through? Not entirely his fault, but he gets to share some responsibility. And the fact that he is wealthy doesn't put him above these things.
Second, you seem to be ignorant of police procedures. While it is reasonable that information received from a questionable source should be double checked, why would they double check information received from a federal agency? An agency who they probably suspected checked the information before passing it on. Perhaps (actually, likely) some of the blame lays with the El Paso Intelligence Center for not double checking. The police had no reason to believe that the information they received from a reliable source was incorrect. As for treating the situation differently once they saw the occupants of the plane, criminals come in all shapes and sizes. Not believing that will get an officer dead.
And one last observation. As to your comment about the hijacking frequency. If you know this, and are obviously willing to talk about it on the internet, I expect that its public knowledge. And if you know this, and now we know this, don't you figure that a hijacker could know that as well? Perhaps keep the pilot from jacking with his frequencies?
No personal attacks on you CP. You are passionate about this. I understand. Do understand however, that there are those of us that are equally passionate about law enforcement. We see things from the blue side of things and tend to judge them differently. No wrong, not right. Not better, not worse. Just different. The bottom line in this situation is that no one was hurt. The aviators went home. The officers went home. And hopefully the publicity this has received will insure that things will be fixed.
First, I believe you are being hypocritical because you are obviously an aviator. You seem to be insinuating that all the fault lay with the police department. You seem to be unable to accept that there was wrong doing on the part of the FAA and possibly the pilots. If the owner of the plane had already been detained because of this issue, he should have made damn sure it didn't happen again. Perhaps request a new N-number? Perhaps follow through that the information had been cleared up, especially in jurisdictions he planned on flying through? Not entirely his fault, but he gets to share some responsibility. And the fact that he is wealthy doesn't put him above these things.
Second, you seem to be ignorant of police procedures. While it is reasonable that information received from a questionable source should be double checked, why would they double check information received from a federal agency? An agency who they probably suspected checked the information before passing it on. Perhaps (actually, likely) some of the blame lays with the El Paso Intelligence Center for not double checking. The police had no reason to believe that the information they received from a reliable source was incorrect. As for treating the situation differently once they saw the occupants of the plane, criminals come in all shapes and sizes. Not believing that will get an officer dead.
And one last observation. As to your comment about the hijacking frequency. If you know this, and are obviously willing to talk about it on the internet, I expect that its public knowledge. And if you know this, and now we know this, don't you figure that a hijacker could know that as well? Perhaps keep the pilot from jacking with his frequencies?
No personal attacks on you CP. You are passionate about this. I understand. Do understand however, that there are those of us that are equally passionate about law enforcement. We see things from the blue side of things and tend to judge them differently. No wrong, not right. Not better, not worse. Just different. The bottom line in this situation is that no one was hurt. The aviators went home. The officers went home. And hopefully the publicity this has received will insure that things will be fixed.
