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Meet a Town That's Had Enough of Militarized Policing
Reason ^ | Aug. 5, 2014 | J.D. Tuccille

Posted on 08/05/2014 3:25:31 PM PDT by bamahead

Edited on 08/05/2014 3:27:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: bamahead

So, it’s Tuesday evening, what happened last night? Anyone know?


41 posted on 08/05/2014 5:20:00 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: cripplecreek

Our town has a little over 2000 people and four (4) full-time police officers in addition to the Chief; two for the day shifts, two for the night shifts with some overlap. Our town has no crime for all practical purposes and the police are not looking for trouble where there is none. We have no armored personnel carriers, not light armor, no MRAPs, nothing every remotely similar. Our police department, whom I respect immensely, have resisted all attempts to federalize and militarize them.


42 posted on 08/05/2014 5:24:06 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of liberty only to see marxism elected at home.)
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To: bamahead
It's simple: Go to your City Council and County Board/Council meetings and advocate for LESS police presence and fewer officers.

You'll find allies ACROSS the political spectrum. Befriend them if possible.

Americans are about tired of subservience to their own paid servants.

So they are going to FIRE a bunch of them. Consciously.

43 posted on 08/05/2014 6:09:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: bamahead

That’s crazy. Ain’t nuff policing, weapons and armored vehicles, plus they get military grade stuff for their bat belts and can completely ignore the 4th amendment, in the name of the common good, by installing network sniffers illegally and unlawfully on cell phone towers and then just trawl, looking for law breakers....Oh, well, while they were looking for this one guy, who they suspect with “reasonable cause”....


44 posted on 08/05/2014 6:16:36 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: TurboZamboni

Guy’s lucky if doesn’t end up a sexual deviant and on a list...forever...


45 posted on 08/05/2014 6:17:27 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: OhItsYouDave
Just another free service I provide...nOOb...
46 posted on 08/05/2014 6:23:29 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: kanawa
Okay, this is the police forces facebook page.

What are these photos trying to convey?


47 posted on 08/05/2014 6:30:38 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man

Screams dooshbag to me.


48 posted on 08/05/2014 6:38:27 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: bamahead; Alaska Wolf; TexasFreeper2009; DCBryan1; Slings and Arrows; Doomonyou; napscoordinator; ..
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49 posted on 08/05/2014 7:11:41 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: TurboZamboni

I heard a lawyer talking about how he had a couple clients arrested for this and they were hanging a sex offender tag on them for life because it was considered flashing. Even if no one saw the junk.


50 posted on 08/05/2014 8:31:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: mountn man

Officer Bambi Sue shooting at the white spot in the “Guy in fatigues” target is particularly offensive, since it marks the location of the heart. The objective of firing a shot is to “stop the threat”. Shooting at the heart is a “kill shot”.


51 posted on 08/05/2014 8:42:24 PM PDT by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: mountn man

Google search on the Township suggests corruption has been a problem in the Dept for some time.


52 posted on 08/05/2014 8:59:54 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Settled science.)
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To: Ouderkirk
all of this military hardware needs to go back to the DoD and be stored or scrapped.

No no no....they should give it to us!

53 posted on 08/05/2014 9:06:03 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: null and void

please remove me from the ping list


54 posted on 08/06/2014 5:47:33 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Done.


55 posted on 08/06/2014 6:00:37 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: bamahead

It should not be just government surveillance of the people, but the people also surveilling those in government. We’ve seen far more acts of corruption by the establishment against the people than vice versa. They try to make it sound like the people are wanna bee terrorists, when the opposite has been much prevalent in the media. There isn’t a day goes by when there are not actions of questionable integrity by those we entrust.


56 posted on 08/06/2014 5:35:50 PM PDT by apoliticalone
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57 posted on 08/14/2014 5:08:07 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses - died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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