The gear, big-budgets, fancy training and civil forfeiture is GOING TO THEIR MINDS.
It is totally transforming the relationship between the tax-payers and the cops --we're a totally different country.
"Hey! It's a FREE COUNTRY..!"
"If after 9-11 we change the way we live JUST A LITTLE then THE TERRORISTS WIN..!"
We NO LONGER hear people say those two things.
After Snowden, you know what is the one thing the gummint REALLLLLY still won’t release any info about?
About just HOW OFTEN Stingray is being used by local cops:
Stingray is a phone-tracker —a gizmo that tricks cell phones into electronically checking in with it to make or receive phone-calls. It’s a mini phone-tower by using it the cops can see where you (or your phone, at least) is, even if it’s in sleep mode, or turned off.
I mean they —local cops— can do that for ANY PERSON carrying a cell-phone.
Stingray now goes by other names and it’s smaller —you already saw it in action in a Pakistan scene in the movie, “Zero Dark Thirty”.
They’re doing that HERE on a very, very regular basis, often for very normal people —probably on a number of freezers.
The gear is part of it, the civil-forfeiture is part of it, and now increasingly with little podunk PD’s freaking ELECTRONIC WARFARE is part of it.
And NOBODY in the gummint wants to talk about it —they’ve fessed up to all manner of stuff but THAT ONE THING is just a black hole.
you are welcome to your thoughts and I’m sure, so as not to be a hypocrite, the next time you have trouble with a bad gun you will call a liberal with a picket sign.