Officers Attacked and Injured

Los Angeles:  A man and a woman arrested after attacking officers Monday evening.

On Monday, September 17, 2007, at 11:50 p.m., 77th Area patrol officers Christopher McPheeters and Matthew Casalicchio responded to a Domestic Violence radio call in the 900 block of West 60th Street.

When officers arrived they contacted the person reporting the incident, identified as Hilda Quinones.  As they were speaking to her, the suspect identified as Nehemias Quinones was seen in the bedroom.  He refused to comply with officers' commands and as they approached he turned around and a use of force occurred.  During the use of force, suspect Nehemias Quinones was hit on the head with a collapsible baton.  During the altercation, Officer Casalicchio received lacerations to his mouth and face.  Suspect Hilda Quinones hit Officer McPheeters several times on his shoulders and back with an unknown hard object.

The suspects were taken into custody without further incident.  Suspect Nehemias Quinones was transported to 77th Street Station where he was treated for his injury.

Hilda Quinones was arrested and booked for 245(c) PC Assault with A Deadly Weapon on a Police Officer. Nehemias Quinones was arrested and booked for 243(c)(2) PC Battery on a Police Officer.

Officer Christopher McPheeters is 28 years of age and has been with the Department for 5 years and 6 months.  Officer Matthew Casalicchio is 25 years of age and has been with the Department for 2 years and 1 month.

Force Investigation Division personnel are investigating this incident.

Comments

[Loves LA LEOs]

The last line of this post really makes me angrier every time I read it. Maybe those officers should get assigned the thankless domestic violence calls. But on a happier note, there is such a delightful example of what it is to be a capable, responsible woman: the female officers in Los Angeles County are rich in self esteem and self respect. They are strong and independent and brave, not like the brainless doormats who keep trying to control men through shame, dangerous women who do not take responsibility for their part in their own victimization. What a contrast! Too bad the dispatchers can't ask the callers if they put the grits on the stove before they send units out....

[b&wop;]

Two more officers hurt while doing their job.

Meanwhile, the micromanaging that was prevalent in the Parks era is alive and well in the Paysinger era at Office of Operations.

Chief Paysinger prohibits gang units to have three officers in a vehicle (although the true reason was never mentioned) for the following reasons:

If, due to deployment schedules, there is an odd officer working that day, that officer is better used in the office doing administrative tasks, instead of providing immediate back-up support for two officers looking to arrest gang members.

The odd officer can ride with a supervisor so that all the unsafe tactics used by lone supervisors when they take on more gangsters than they can deal with, will now go away. You see, the gung-ho and unsafe supervisor now has a partner.

Or, thirdly, that odd officer can be assigned to a patrol function for the day. Most likely as a ONE-OFFICER report car or traffic enforcement unit.

Yes, folks, lieutenants and sergeants who run gang units are too stupid to decide where to put their odd officers. Only Deputy Chiefs, high up on the administration building, know all.

Fellow taxpayers, that is the management style your tax dollars are wasted on. Cut out the micromanaging, PLEASE. Let us go out and work to rid L.A. of marauding murdering hoodlums.