Frightening ACLU Report Shows How Militarized America's Cops Really Are

Howdy,

Back in the late 60's a family friend who was the County Sheriff didn't even carry a gun. He had a .357 revolver that he kept in the glovebox and a .30-30 rifle in the truck of his car.

Last week a SWAT team, armed with full body armor, M-4s, flash bangs, armored vehicle, etc responded to a vicious dog.

The vicious dog?

A Rot? Nope.

A rabid pit? Nope.

A crazed killer Mastif? Nope.

It was a freakin' miniature weenie dog!

A 7lb miniature weenie dog required an entire swat team.

Right now the weenie dog is locked up for a 10 evaluation.

Paul
 
Stengun said:
Howdy,

Back in the late 60's a family friend who was the County Sheriff didn't even carry a gun. He had a .357 revolver that he kept in the glovebox and a .30-30 rifle in the truck of his car.

Last week a SWAT team, armed with full body armor, M-4s, flash bangs, armored vehicle, etc responded to a vicious dog.

The vicious dog?

A Rot? Nope.

A rabid pit? Nope.

A crazed killer Mastif? Nope.

It was a freakin' miniature weenie dog!

A 7lb miniature weenie dog required an entire swat team.

Right now the weenie dog is locked up for a 10 evaluation.

Paul
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Makes sense, break out the swat gear toys and play commando over a little dog while invaders pour across the southern boarder.
 
Howdy,

BigSlick said:
Makes sense, break out the swat gear toys and play commando over a little dog while invaders pour across the southern boarder.
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What happened was the cops had a misdemeanor warrant for a woman and when the cops tried to cuff her in her living room she started screaming and squealing and the miniature weenie dog grabbed the cops pant leg trying to protect its Momma. Cop tripped and fell and the other cop panicked and call officer down over the radio so the "SWAT" team responded.

Paul
 
It sounds to me like the firearms are not the problem, it's the people that are carring them that need more training in when to use them. If I were a police man I would like to have the most advandced weapons to deal with the possable threats that I might face in my job. Please don't blame the weapon for the act of the person holding it.
 
I don't have it in front of me, but I read in the past week or so that in 1980 there were about 3,000 swat team raids in the U.S. Nowadays they're running between 70 and 80 THOUSAND swat raids per year.
 
Most cops don`t even know half of the laws that there supposed enforce, and most cops barely know how to handle the guns they carry on duty, so giving them military grade weapons and vehicles is really a great idea, what could possibly go wrong ????. It amounts to children playing with weapons and vehicles way above there pay grade.
 
dcselby1 said:
I don't have it in front of me, but I read in the past week or so that in 1980 there were about 3,000 swat team raids in the U.S. Nowadays they're running between 70 and 80 THOUSAND swat raids per year.
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That seems more than just a little excessive. Granted, crime is up considerably, but not at that ratio.
Although what concerns me the most is the number of innocent citizens that are being hurt and killed as the result of these raids.
 
I am very pro cop but even I have to admit that they are acting more and more like an occupying army instead of keepers of the peace.
 
Does the article mention how militarized the criminals are becoming?

I'm allergic to anything from the ACLU.

-SF


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POP CHARLIE said:
It sounds to me like the firearms are not the problem, it's the people that are carring them that need more training in when to use them. If I were a police man I would like to have the most advandced weapons to deal with the possable threats that I might face in my job. Please don't blame the weapon for the act of the person holding it.
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Just like "gun violence" is not a gun problem, but a violence problem, the issue with SWAT is, first of all, the excessive use of such teams - that's a management issue. And management is eager to use SWAT because they've got it. All the gear that's been disbursed by DEA (war on drugs) and DHS (war on terrorism). You just can't have all those tacticool things sitting around, you now have to justify them. So SWAT is called out for every search, every arrest warrant, every angry traffic stop, just because they have the stuff.

As the information in Ringo's link above says, SWAT is called out 80K times a year, more that 20 times as much as in 1980. That's just crazy, if true, or even partly true. Crime has certainly not grown that much, it's actually down. Are there situations where SWAT use is valid? Certainly, but not to execute door crashing raids to execute searches on white collar crimes.

It's not just the local PD either. Every freaking branch of the federal government now seems to have raiding parties - even the Dept of Education? That's just crazy.

How about having a big SWAT convention down along the Rio Grande? Put them where we need them.
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