Originally published at: "Officer of the Year" shot and killed trying to break into house
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Anything other than he was a bad cop. They really take care of their own, even after they died during the commission of a crime. 
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Or just a pretty typical one, doing the quiet part a little too out loud.
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That seems to imply that they expect a change in the individual’s status. I am fairly confident that is permanent, unlike being turned into a newt or a horny toad or something.
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Seems more like they are stating that when he was shot, he was killed.
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Once inside, the homeowner produced a firearm in self-defense and shot the individual. At this time, the individual is deceased
First time I’ve seen active voice used in a police-involved shooting. Oh wait, its because the homeowner did the shooting, not the cop’s firearm. Dur.
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“At this time” means now, when followed by that present-tense “is.”
I agree with @SpeedRacer that it’s just bad writing, which if read as if it’s not nonsense would mean that at some future time, the dead man might not be deceased. Which is, yeah, nonsense.
Anyway, in context, whoever wrote that should have just written, “At this time, the individual died.”
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I’m pretty sure that chatGPT writes all statements by law enforcement.
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No need to be so hasty; Omni Consumer Products might have use for him yet.
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Not when it’s perfect tense, which is how I read this.
Crime! Death! PEDANTRY!!
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Well, ACAB seems appropriate.
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Perfect tense is a verb conjugation comprising “have” or “has” and a past participal. It is not something that one infers from context.
But this is a direct quote, so the sheriff probably just changed what he was saying in the middle of the sentence.
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Better phrasing would have been: “The individual is now deceased.” But copspeak is intentionally convoluted and uses weird stock phrases, a kind of cargo cult legalese.
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Yep, I was wrong. I meant what is called “historic present tense.”
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I would have written it as “The individual was pronounced dead at the scene” (or at the hospital, wherever the medical personnel officially said that he was dead.)
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Reminding us again that police are just violent, private security for the wealthy which this cop forgot. Stealing from minorities and poor people might make you “officer of the year”. But a cop stealing from a wealthy white man can have consequences.
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Hmmmmmm, why does my Soylent Green taste like bacon?
Not, ya know, complaining, but…
Are you going to finish that?
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