Officer Accidentally Fires Weapon

Los Angeles: An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer accidentally fired his weapon.

On March 5, 2007, at about 2:00 p.m., Officer Jason Clauss, assigned to South Traffic Division, was at home cleaning his off-duty gun, when he accidentally discharged his weapon. One round was fired into the wall and no one was injured as a result.

South Traffic Division detectives ares handling the investigation.

Officer Clauss has nine years with the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Comments

[twiceactitizen]

Guess we forgot to do that chamber check,huh?

Reporting this incident speaks volumes of your integrity and moral character.
I hope they go easy on you.

[Captain Kirk]

Here we go again. Why is it so important to print officer's name? If I remembered correctly, last officer from Audit Division did the same thing, but his/her name was not posted. Can you say "Double Standard" between administrative and patrol?

[?]

funny how they included the ofcr's name who had the negligent discharge. but when a detective from audit div has an n.d., they dont include their name. hmmmm. well glad everyone is ok. funny how they treat the troops.

[El Tecolote]

The reluctance of mgmt in failing to disclose the name of the female detective from Audit Div who had the negligent discharge of her weapon was wrong.

Perhaps that would have been to traumatic for her. Hell, maybe that would have sent her over the edge resulting in more negligent discharges.

[Dis and Dat]

For those of you who are keeping score on "Whose Name Gets the Publicity?"....this post DID publish the female detective's name initially, but it was soon redacted. So I guess that means there IS a double standard, right?

[T]

There is no double standard between patrol and admin, the AD detective asked for it to be removed and I am sure the STD officer can do the same. By the way cudos to the officer for reporting it, it speaks directly to his integrity.

[LovesLALEOs]

Sincerely glad you are okay, Officer Clauss. Nothing else matters.

[abc123]

You admin POGs where pretty quick to defend the Officer from audit Div when he negligently discharged his weapon. What are going to say to defend the posting of this officer's name but not that of the audit POG? Thanks for being so transparent in you hipocracy.