Crime Police standoff in Pike County ends after it’s discovered that nobody was home

PETERSBURG, Ind (WEHT) – A standoff that lasted hours in Pike County had a peaceful end after law enforcement discovered there was nobody inside of a residence where a suspect was believed to be barricaded.

Indiana State Police were at the scene assisting local authorities in Petersburg. Part of State Road 57 was shut down between State Road 61 and 18th Street. Indiana State Police told Eyewitness News it was believed that a man wanted on a warrant was refusing to come out of the residence.

Police say no one else was found inside of the home.

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I saw something similar outside my house once. Dude got stopped after stealing a car and the entire police force showed up pulling out all their AR's and shotguns. They proceeded to scream through a megaphone at the vehicle for the passenger to get out before they opened fire, this went on for about 40 minutes before they finally swarmed the vehicle. Spoiler alert, there wasn't anybody in the car and the windows had zero tint to them.

Moral of the story, the police are fucking retarded.
 
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The Last Stand said:
They should've shot the house up.
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First send in a drone, when the drone attempts to leave, then shoot. Must follow protocol, after all.

CarlosDanger said:
They so badly wanted to shoot someone.
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I didn't spend 8 consecutive non-paid weekends in the "Hostage Negotiation: Top 10 Special Tips & Tricks, featuring Sgt. Slaughter" courses just to be sidelined like this.
 
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This happened a few years back in my town.

Our local slumlord, in one of his more coked-up moments believed there were armed squatters in one of his vacant rental houses, called the cops to "evict" them, when nobody responded to demands to come out with hands up, it resulted in a 6 hour standoff with multiple rounds of tear gas fired through windows before it was realized the house was empty.

Now, there was evidence that someone HAD been squatting, but they'd left some time ago (and left the back door wide open in the process) - had slumlord or the cops done a basic perimeter check they would have discovered this.

It'd be funny watching them LARP as Rainbow Six if it weren't for the fact it costs me my tax money and closes roads for hours.....
 
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I do wonder, if it's the result of some asshat swatting a known vacant house.

I don't condone or encourage it at all, because police not available are police not capable of responding to an actual emergency, but if this was some form of civil disobedience at work I have to say it seems like it'd be effective. Recklessly endangering the general public via tying up police, but still.
 
The police once showed up at my door demanding to be let in. I told them to kick rocks unless they had a warrant. They waited around for hours calling banging on the door and saying that we know the person's in there. I finally relented and told them look. The fucking person you're looking for doesn't live here. They looked around and realized that it was the wrong house. Funny enough, two of the officers left their keys in my weed filled unkempt yard. They spent hours more looking for their keys and even had enough nerve to ask me to help them. Eventually they had to tow their cop cruiser. Moral of the story cops are fucking stupid.
 
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I do wonder, if it's the result of some asshat swatting a known vacant house.

I don't condone or encourage it at all, because police not available are police not capable of responding to an actual emergency, but if this was some form of civil disobedience at work I have to say it seems like it'd be effective. Recklessly endangering the general public via tying up police, but still.
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The fact swatting still exists is the most infuriating failure of modern policing - even though there have been countless examples of people doing it over petty arguments, sometimes to the same person, the cops just can't seem to learn that when a person, just one, calls in declaring dozens of armed men are waving guns around in the streets of some completely quiet neighborhood that's never had a crime issue, and no other people call in to corroborate? It's 99% likely to be a hoax and you should send just one cop over to clear the call as false.


But no.


Time and time and time again, as a first resort, they saddle up with the FULL SWAT TEAM and race over primed to nuke the neighborhood because this time, THIS TIME, surely it's GOT to be real!

AND I WANT MY JOHN MCCLANE MERIT BADGE SO I CAN SHOW UP EVERYONE ELSE AT THE SHOP!

The response doctrine of police departments has gone bonkers in the last 15 years... and I have no idea why.

Much like how all the social movements turned violent and confrontational at the same time, I have no idea but would love to know.
 
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"Aw...did someone actually knock?"
"You mean to tell me we have been HOURS here and nobody thought to confirm if someone was home?!"
"...sounds about right."
"Oh well, we are getting paid anyway. Lets go home, boys"

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As funny as this story sounds, I can only imagine it would have been thirty times worse if someone WAS in the house and they had nothing to do with what the suspect was up to. The occupant who had nothing to do with this would have been shot dead by some trigger happy cop the moment they opened the door.
 
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Cops are fucking retards. They banged on my apartment door repeatedly saying they got a 911 call from the landline at my home…even though I don’t have a landline and I told them this repeatedly when I answered the door. They still turned my home upside down and checking to make sure there was no landline. Dipshits.
 
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