Posted on 08/14/2014 2:41:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
1st step is get rid of the unions for city & state workers.
2nd step, stop sending military equipment to the police departmenst.
This is not a racial problem. No one in their right mind trusts a “police” force who can harm, brutalize or kill with impunity, whose “impartial” investigations invariably find the “officer” followed procedures and did nothing wrong. Police, TSA, ICE, FBI all the same. The law needs to apply equally to everyone. No longer can government agents be allowed a different standard of behavior than those who pay their salary. The concepts of “limited” and “qualified” immunity need to be long gone. Break in to a house with a search warrant that was obtained falsely, break into the wrong house, kill someone. A civil suit is no longer enough. That is MURDER ONE.
I’m all for de-militarizing our local police, but also knukka-heads wrestling with the cops pretty much ask for the po-po to pop’em.
If these guys loved the combat arms so much, they should’ve stayed on active duty. I sure don’t like the way this is headed.
Could someone please define “militarization” for me, concretely? I don’t think it means what you think it means.
We have three problems:
1. Many on the left have no problem with militarized police, as long as they aren’t used against the left.
2. Many on the right have no problem with militarized police, as long as they aren’t used against the right.
3. They will be used against the left AND right.
Is that what you were told occurred?
Or do ya have a link to their completed investigation? If so, I’d like to see it.
If not, what do ya think is taking so long?
It all starts at the most local level. My township doesn’t have police because we voted to get rid of them. They were unnecessary and expensive.
By law we have to contract with the county sheriff but they don’t come out here unless they’re called.
I don't think so.
Any conservative telling ya they have no problem with the police becoming militarized is no patriot or conservative.
Oh I see. The author would have police wear sweats down around the center of their butts, Che T-shirts, flip-flops, and have their hats on backwards when confronting the masses throwing Molotov cocktails and firing at helicopters. This would certainly make the community feel much safer. The small minority in the streets that create the danger for LEOs and the community dictate the necessary protection level. If everyone out there were peaceful and non-violent, the police could wear their patrol uniforms. Would you want to go out there without protective clothing?
Yet we have many self-proclaimed conservative here doing just that.
We have TOO MANY COPS.
I notice the author managed to choke out “libertarian” and “conservative” without spitting - barely - but one of the standard-bearers on the issue of too much government has been the unmentioned and presumably unmentionable Tea Party movement. You remember, those rabid, knuckle-dragging wing-nuts who faced down the BLM SWAT team in Nevada? Couldn’t be that they had a point all along, could it?
It is in Ferguson! Whiter people don't act like savages bent on lawlessness.
True enough. It's probably more accurate to say "Many self-proclaimed conservatives (including some FReepers) have no problem with miliarized police . . ."
That's where we have to be.
And the affiant on the search warrant too.
Perhaps the Judge for not doing due diligence.
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