If I went out and started killing dangerous criminals, would the police come after me?

Question

Can I live the life of the Boondock Saints?

Do you think the public would support me?

Answer 1

yes, murder is murder.. we don't do eye for an eye.

Answer 2

If I went out and started killing dangerous criminals, would the police come after me? Yes

Can I live the life of the Boondock Saints?
Yes. But why would you want to?

Answer 3

My husband & brother talk about going "Boondock Saints" on America. I think public comments would be just like the end of the movie.......Where can I sign up???????????

Answer 4

Yes, but you could kill A LOT OF PEOPLE before they ever catch you! They're not the fastest moving bunch of people... as a rule. In fact, I believe our retiring Police Chief here in Ottawa was one of the lead investigators in the Paul Bernardo case and I believe, if I'm not mistake, that he questions Bernardo and released him!

Answer 5

Yes, provided the police were notified, qualified, and competent, and employed by an honest department. In New Orleans, who knows?

Answer 6

Yeah they would come after you.... murder is murder, even if you kill bad people. You would need to make it look like self defense each and every time, and after the second time the cops would figure out that you are a vigilante.

They put that guy in NYC in jail for shooting four thugs in the subway, nothing has changed since then.

Check it out:

On December 22nd, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, until that point in time just another typical passenger on the subway, boarded a southbound IRT 7th Avenue express at his home station of 14th Street. He happened to sit near four teenage boys in the car -- Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur and Darrell Cabey -- and there were about twenty other passengers in the same subway car. The boys were generally not behaving well, and two of them approached Goetz, supposedly using screwdrivers as weapons, and asked him for five dollars. Goetz had been mugged before, and unknown to the four boys, he was carrying a gun. Interpreting the "request" for five dollars as an attempt to mug him again, Goetz grabbed his gun and shot each of the boys once. It is not certain if Goetz fired all five shots in rapid succession, or if he paused after shooting Cabey once and said "you seem to be all right; here's another" and shot him again. After this incident, Goetz got off the train and drove to New Hampshire, and as word spread, he became known as the "subway vigilante", defending himself from crime. On December 31st, 1984, Goetz surrendered to police in Concord, New Hampshire and was brought back to New York City.

The coverage of the case by the news media took on the same aura as that of the OJ Simpson case in the 1990s. The perception that crime was out of control was locked in hard and fast by this case. The spread of graffiti all over the subways became permanently linked to the poor condition of the equipment, the delayed arrivals, the poor service and all the breakdowns that occurred on the subway on a daily basis. Between the Goetz case and the uncontrollable graffiti, the subway became a symbol of New York City's inability to control crime. Some viewed Goetz as a hero for standing up to his attackers and defending himself in an environment where the police were increasingly viewed as unable to effectively combat crime. Others viewed Goetz's action as a violent and criminal over-reaction to the events. Since Goetz was white and the four youths were black, others focused on the racial aspects of the incident and the public reaction that followed.

During the next year and a half, Goetz faced two grand juries and a criminal trial. The first grand jury indicted Goetz only for illegal weapons possession, but a second grand jury was called after prosecutors claimed they had new evidence against Goetz. At this second grand jury, he was indicted on attempted murder charges. During this time, polls said that three of four people believed that Goetz was defending himself. Senator Al D'Amato even offered to testify as a character witness for Goetz. When the criminal trial finally began well over a year after the incident, Goetz was acquitted on the attempted murder charges but found guilty on the gun possession charge, and spent eight months in jail.

Darrell Cabey filed a civil suit against Goetz, which went to trial in 1996. The jury found that Goetz had acted recklessly and deliberately inflicted emotional distress on Cabey. The jury awarded Cabey $43 million. Goetz subsequently filed for bankruptcy protection.

In the civil trial, newspaper columnist Jimmy Breslin testified that Cabey had told him about a year after the shooting that he and the other three young men on the train intended to rob Goetz because "he looked like easy bait." In fact, all of the youths had committed serious crimes since the original incident, except for Cabey, who remains paralyzed in a wheelchair.

Even though Goetz left New York City after the civil trial, he returned and actually ran for mayor of New York City in 2002.

Answer 7

Probably. As appealing as the thought may seem, it is still vigilantism. Leave the policing to the police.

Answer 8

ofcourese yes

to stop the crime u cannot be a criminal

u do not have an authority to punish any one

u also are not very clean handed to punish any one

ofcourse u can report a crime and fight against it

no one stops u

go ahed and do this

if u really want to fight against crime

Answer 9

Yes. The courts are there for a reason.

Answer 10

Of course they would! Taking the life of another is illegal.

Answer 11

And your definition of Dangerous criminal is?