[Serious] Police of reddit: Who was the worst criminal you've ever had to detain? What did they do? How did you feel once they'd been arrested?

not a cop but something similar... Was acting as the SOG in charge of an entry control point for my FOB, My translator came and told me there was an argument between a LN guard under me and a LN civilian. I went over to find the civi was trying to take the Guard's weapon away. I draw down and shout at him, he lets go of the Guard's weapon and starts walking towards me while yelling.

(I know that their culture does not have a proper fear of rifles and he is unarmed so he probably thinks I will not shoot him.)

I decide to give him a chance and let go of my weapon letting it hang by the sling. he is about five paces away. I stop shouting, draw my knife, take one step forward, and decide to kill him if he takes two more steps.

(As that will show beyond any doubt that he is hostile without letting him grab my rifle barrel and this is all on the security camera so I wont get in trouble.)

He takes a step then pivots to the other direction leaving the FOB. I follow up and get him blacklisted so the idiot cant come back and get himself killed.

months go by and I am reading through some Intel reports when his name and picture pop up apparently His wife had just had a baby girl so I think well congrats I guess it is a good thing I didn't kill him. I keep reading... The son of a bitch was upset that the child was female instead of male so to get his "honor" back he cut the mothers throat, just barely getting through the skin and not hitting anything major, then dragged her out of the house dumping her and the baby in a nearby wady.

I open the attachments (this was stupid of me) only to see what appears to be a 10 to 13 year old "woman's" body in a ditch, blood everywhere, curled around the dead baby. Her eyes were still open and you could see the tear trails on her face from her crying. More pictures show bloody smears on the embankment from where the girl had tried to crawl out only she was too week from child birth to succeed.

Apparently the village were all up in arms when the body was found by US but after the village heads son told them he did it and why they patted his back and consoled him as if HE was the victim. then told US that it was the son's right as the husband to do what he did and to mind our own business. The LN police also decided that the husband was "within his rights" and he "acted appropriately."

I never thought that the biggest regret I would have in life would be a moment in which I didn't take one.

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