Inmate Overpowers La. Officer at Hospital

It's only a matter of time before the critics jump on here and try to point out that officers are less capable and more vulnerable than the inmates they guard. Before they get started I would like to put their comments to rest and point out that the inmate overpowered a female officer. That is not to say that because the officer is a female that she is weak or timid. This is just to point out that the inmate most likely chose a battle he thought he could win. My guess is that if a 6 foot 200 lb officer was guarding the inmate that he would not try this crap and if he did his hospital stay would have been a bit longer than it was. It seems in recent post where an officer is injured that certain people seem to think that officers are less capable at hand to hand combat than the prisoners they guard. I think a there are a lot of factors that need to be considered before these determinations are made.

Best wished for the officer to get well soon and keep fighting the good fight.

Any time you send one person to guard a prisoner you had better make sure you have an answer for the "what if question". Unless there are some underlying reason for doing this, it was a STUPID move. Female or out of shape male, it doesn't matter. Someone's butt should be on the line for this blunder.

Lucky the outcome was not more serious than it was. This has nothing to do with female or out of shape male. Where I work its 2 Officers on 1 arrestee period. No matter 1 male/female, 2 males or 2 females. ALWAYS per officers on 1 prisoner/arrestee. That other person is correct, some 1 should fry for that or policy should be changed

the county i work in only has 12 deputy's and that the sheriff to.. day shift there might be one deputy and the sheriff.. and at night ur lucky to have 3 deputy's and affter 2am you might have 2deputys if lucky so one person at the hospital is not a big deal.. thats why NC had police officer at hospitals now..

the sheriff department handles most inmates that come in through our hospital. They have a record of 1,000,000 - 2. At one time i even say 4 officer on an inmate(probably a murderer) and they were were armed to the teeth.

Speaking from experience , the medical staff forget that inmates are inmates and not regular patient. Sometimes they want the inmate to take off the jumpsuit, and put on a gown which requires that the inmate be temporarily unsecured. Also when officers come in with suspects/inmates , we try our best to get them through the line even bypassing the line. But medical staff wants to treat them like regular patients and have them stay in public view for longer than needs be.

The two losses that I stated above was that the officers handcuffed the inmates to the bed, without checking the bed's framework. While the officer was posted in the lobby , the inmate broke out and headed for the ceilings. The officer caught on, and the inmate was advised that he would be shot if he continued any further and surrendered peacefully again.

Another time was that the inmates nurse, authorized visitation to the inmate while in the hospital without checking with the officers.

And it doesn't matter if the officer is female, we have this one female sheriff officer come to the hospital all the time with new inmates(male and females). So it says a lot about her. I also saw an inmate get out of hand and she took him down with ease. Asked if she needed more help and she stated that she was "cool".
----------don't mean to bash all medical staff members just the ones that don't take inmates seriously. Some medical staff are highly experienced in this situation/.

Brings me back to the first time I showed up to relieve a hospital watch as a brand new CO.

I relieved the two, fully armed officers who conducted the transport, and ask them how they'd like to do the weapon exchange. They (correctly) informed me that our hospital watch posts were not armed, and that weapons are only issued for the actual transport to the hospital. I never understood how driving down the highway at 60-70 MPH could be considered a higher-risk situation than a single officer sitting in a fixed, possibly known location for days at a time.

Never send one Officer in a situation like this. Depts do it because they want to save money, more money should be alloted to the Police and less to welfare bums and illegals.

Why is it that if an officer is unable to control a subject they are weak and should not be in the job. This goes for both males and females. But if that same officer gets the upper hand and puts the subject into a wall as in a previous article, or has to use the taser on them and they get hurt it is "police brutality". Come on people you can't have it both ways.

Why is it that if an officer is unable to control a subject they are weak and should not be in the job. This goes for both males and females. But if that same officer gets the upper hand and puts the subject into a wall as in a previous article, or has to use the taser on them and they get hurt it is "police brutality". Come on people you can't have it both ways.

Fact of the matter is, there should have been more than 1 officer here.. Period.. We have no information about the prisoner, just that the officer was female.. And the first comment is "My guess is that if a 6 foot 200 lb officer was guarding the inmate that he would not try this crap".. Look through the jail and tell me you can whoop every one of them one on one.. Could have happened to anyone, including a 6'00 200 lb officer, male or female.. This is why 2 officers should be guarding 1 prisoner..