That was the question that confronted a young woman in Mount Vernon, Washington on January 12, 2010. I’ll refer to her as Maria, which is not her real name.
She and her 2-year-old daughter had been watching the penguin cartoon “Happy Feet” when she heard a knock on the front window. She went to the window, pulled the blinds aside, saw a police badge being shown, and heard a man yell "
POLICE! OPEN THE DOOR!"
Maria, frightened, opened the door. Two men in ski masks pushed their way in. One man grabbed the child and the other man pushed Maria onto the couch.
Did rape and murder then follow?That such was not the case was due solely to what her ex-husband had taught Titan, the family pit bull, to do—to attack on command.
Maria screamed the command. The man on top of Maria started to pull a gun but not before Titan raced out of a back bedroom and sunk his teeth into the man’s left leg. Both men then fled, with the dog close behind them.
In hindsight, Maria should never have opened the door to police impersonators, but how was she to know that they were fake police?
CONCLUSION:
In such a situation,
never open the door. Instead, call 911. If the men are the real police, rather than impersonators, the 911 operator can confirm that. And if they are not the police, a patrol car can be sent out to catch them.
Not everyone keeps a pit bull in the back bedroom, trained to attack on command.
Labels: fake police, imitation police, police impersonators
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 12:13 AM
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