Last Sunday evening, officers were dispatched to investigate a call of an armed subject. When Aurora Police Department officers arrived on the scene, they concluded that is was domestic-related and subsequently surrounded the residence where it was purported that an armed male was held up.
More than a dozen police officers were present. They surrounded the residence, along with several other houses in the immediate vicinity. Officers heard a single gunshot ring out and immediately entered the home where they located a male with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
While cyber-surfing the various crime blogs that I follow, I stumbled across a headline that read, “Riot shield sledding police officers reprimanded.” Intrigued by the “shield sledding” action verb, I couldn’t resist tapping into the bulk of the story. I must admit that I was expecting to read a story about police misconduct that would ignite my fury at police officers that recklessly tarnish the badge. What I found instead, was a group of police officers near Oxford, England, who were disciplined for 
