[Atlas Sneezed]

Nice rant, but what does that have to do with militarized police forces? (I'm far more worried about cops blowing up my house than a neighbor's meth lab. doing the same.)

Evidently, the epidemic of SWAT activity seems to nicely correlate with the epidemic of meth problems. Which does not exactly make your case for you.

SWAT budgets NEED meth problems. If not for meth, they'd have to invent something else to justify their union overtime and ninja toys.

[BruceysMom]

If what I posted strikes you as a rant then boy are you going to get upset when I actually DO rant! In my city the great danger is the meth labs and the addicts. The worst you can say about cops around here is that they don't do enough. I appreciate that there are places where the cops are over the top. I was addressing my particular community.The biggest impediment to competent police enforcement here, is that the city has a major population of retired Californians. They don't want higher taxes (and who does?) to pay for the level of enforcement that our city needs. You are much more apt to be sickened by the residue of meth labs here, than a victim of police misconduct. The creek that runs behind the former neighborhood meth lab runs through my front yard. No telling what the "cooks" dumped in it. All I know is that there aren't anymore fish now.

[BruceysMom]

BTW have you read this whole thread? Cause if you have you would see that what I posted was a civil disagreement with the many cop bashing comments on this thread, and not even a particularly heated response at that. So your painting my response as a rant is puzzling. You may have a very militarized police force in your area, but thats more the exception than the rule. Around here we don't pay 'em enough to buy the high tech toys. I reiterate, I'm calling 911 when I have a problem, feel free to call whomever you want. In case this portrays me as lib, I'll call 911 after me, mr. Glock and my 170 lb. Caucasian Ovcharka feel we need back up.