[wildbill]

This kind of police state crap is increasing all the time and it is fueled by government supposed need for swat teams at every level.

[yldstrk]

Judas effing priest

I live in a police state

[Jack Hydrazine]

The United States of SWAT?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376053/united-states-swat-john-fund

“Since 9/11, the feds have issued a plethora of homeland-security grants that encourage local police departments to buy surplus military hardware and form their own SWAT units. By 2005, at least 80 percent of towns with a population between 25,000 and 50,000 people had their own SWAT team. The number of raids conducted by local police SWAT teams has gone from 3,000 a year in the 1980s to over 50,000 a year today.”

[Mycroft Holmes]

Cop beats up model Air Force captain in his own home, issues arrest weeks later
Agents In FBI Shooting Working On Drug Investigation
OFFICIALS: FBI AGENT CLEARED IN FLORIDA SHOOTING
Mass. man arrested after recording officer in street
Minister, 92, sues Salisbury Police officer who tackled him to the floor
Report: Yakima police officer didn’t realize gun was a toy until after fatal shooting
NC man reaching for cane shot in SC traffic stop
Cops hit my car, then arrested me: suit
She Allegedly Went on a Simple Jog in Her Toe Shoes. So Why Did She End Up Screaming and in Handcuffs? ‘I Didn’t F**king Do Anything Wrong!’
Police Beat, Stun Deaf Man After Confusing Sign Language With Threatening Gestures
Officer Shoots Dog at Boy's Birthday Party (with video)
NC officer indicted in teen's shooting death
Arundel police officer kills family's dog during search
‘IN AMERICA, HOW DOES SUCH A THING HAPPEN?’
Man killed by Yakima police was holding an airsoft gun
Lawyer defends officer in BSL shooting investigation
Lawsuit filed over OR man's warrantless cavity search
Strip search lawsuit involving Springfield police officer Carla Daniele nears trial date
Flint Dance Club settlement for cavity searches
Metro Narcotics foots bill for forced body cavity search
City man suing police, claiming rights were violated after rectal search in public view (with documents)
UPDATED: 3 more police officers named in city man's anal-cavity search lawsuit
Trooper reinstated after illegal body cavity searches
Illegal body cavity search victims sue city and officers
Women sue over roadside cavity search
Female workers sue over Portsmouth strip searches
Police turn routine traffic stops into cavity searches
UPDATE: Trooper who performed roadside body cavity searches indicted on two counts of sexual assault, two counts official oppression
Lawsuit: Cops forced man to undergo enemas, colonoscopy on invalid warrant
Lawsuit: woman faced illegal body cavity search
ACLU suing over reported body cavity drug searches
Justice Coalition for Andy Lopez Statement on why Sherrif Gelhaus should be indicted

Fight the Free Sh☭t Nation

[DoodleDawg]

So I would like America's police culture to be de-militarized. That will take some doing.

Won't happen. Police don't trust the public. Public doesn't trust the police. Neither is going to disarm so more shootings are inevitable.

[centurion316]

Johnson County, Kansas is a tony suburb of Kansas City that sits on the Kansas side of the line. Leawood is a tony municipal enclave within that county wherein all of the tony shops and stip malls can be found. Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, the Apple Store, Yogurtini, Orvis. The neighborhoods are equally upscale and all of this produces gobs of tax income that has been spent on a splendelicious Justice Center dripping with architectural extravagance.

The Justice Center supports the Leawood Police Department, who together with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department are the only thing standing between civilization and complete chaos. People have been known to have picnics in the park without possession of the required permit. Golden Retrievers have been reported off lease. Some people fail to sort the recyclables from their trash. You get the picture, it’s a rough town and the cops gotta be tough.

[Spok]

It is clear that, after listening to Harry Reid about the Bundy situation in Nevada, the majority leader wants blood shed. The ‘compassionate left’ would love to see drone attacks on every group that dissents.

[gaijin]

Everyone has heard the one about the Dept. of Education SWAT raid against the family whose errant mom had defaulted on some college loans:

The black ninjya tacticool Gear Queers crashed through the front door started smashing stuff, right..?

Outrageous, but pretty standard:

You probably didn’t know that they TACKLED all three kids inside, ages 3, 7 and 11 and then locked them in a police cruiser outside for TWO HOURS while they questioned the dad.

About college loans.

Of the mom, who had not lived at that address in over two years.

PONDER THAT.

[Slings and Arrows]

Steyn / JBT ping.