[all the best]

To sum it all up: the problems we’re grappling with have been building for more than 40 years. They’re not going to go away overnight, and they certainly will not be resolved by a report that instructs the police to simply adopt different tactics to accomplish the same results—i.e., maintain the government’s power, control and wealth at all costs.

This is the sad reality of life in the American police state.

[Biggirl]

Second it.

[Wolfie]

This just 40 years of Drug War chickens coming home to roost. Good luck turning the tide.

[trebb]

To sum it all up: the problems we’re grappling with have been building for more than 40 years. They’re not going to go away overnight, and they certainly will not be resolved by a report that instructs the police to simply adopt different tactics to accomplish the same results—i.e., maintain the government’s power, control and wealth at all costs. This is the sad reality of life in the American police state.

Yep - steal a few million from taxpayers and get a fake slap on the wrist; be in arrears for $50 in parking tickets (payable to the local government) and get SWATed...

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for the article, spot on.

[MrEdd]

They don’t have the mentality of soldiers.
That is the problem.
There is little sense of protecting freedom as a way of life.

[arthurus]

I agree that the police forces should not have and deploy patently military attack and destroy equipment. It has been given out so freely as a prepositioning of equipment tactic for the central government with an eye to later use. The Texas reaction to Jade Helm apparently induced a doubt in Hussein’s head that local police forces can be relied on to automatically accept orders from Washington and might even resist federal operations against a state. Now he thinks it better to minimize that prepositioning. I suspecthe will cut off southern states and states like the Dakotas which seem likety to show some resistance to federal encroachments

[Old Sarge]

H/T to our FRiend all the best for the post.

Notice this:

If you look at the poilce department, their creed is to protect and to serve

WRONG!

According to the SCOTUS decision in 2006, the mission of the police is to ENFORCE THE LAWS.

Whatever those laws happen to be - and against whoever those laws are written.

For thus has the Lord said unto me:
“Go, set a watchman, Let him declare what he sees.”
Isaiah 21:6

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[lavaroise]

This is like a reverse Atockholm syndrome. The population is hostage of criminals, so cops see mo compulsion in SWATing around even if it is the wrong house (ie population hostage). So they hate the hostages and loot around.

It is unbelievable. They must really not care at all.

[precisionshootist]

Article is 100% spot on.

[discostu]

The “thin blue line” mentality is the source of the problem. Cops are taught by other cops to consider non-cops the enemy, that only the thin blue line is protecting society from total collapse. At this point the difference between good cops and bad cops is that good cops think the enemy can be reasoned with, but even the good cops don’t like you.

[servantboy777]

Swat raids have gone up by the thousands. Swatting milk dairies, home schools, civil violations, guitar factory...and on and on.

Folks are mostly passive when confronted by the boyz and their toyz. Someday, this may not be the case. Folks are getting pretty sidewayz at all the nonsense goin on.

We are not the enemy! Why are we being spied on? Why are we being tracked, scrutinized and treated as if we are threats.

The only way a bully will stop bullying is when he gets punched in the nose.