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Mississippi legislature votes to give attorney general his own “strike forces”
Washington Post ^ | February 27, 2014 | Radley Balko

Posted on 02/28/2014 10:20:29 AM PST by Altariel

A troubling bill (PDF) that passed the Mississippi legislature last month would give the state’s attorney general three paramilitary-style “strike forces” to use around the state at his discretion.

The bill is being pushed by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who told the Associated Press, “These elite forces will respond to a specific high-crime area and hit gangs and drug dealers where they live. Give law enforcement the authority and the resources they need, and they will get the job done.”

But it’s far from clear that the state really needs more strike forces with which to hit people. Mississippi already has several federally funded multi-jurisdictional drug and gang task forces. The Mississippi Highway Patrol, which serves the entire state, has a SWAT team and a Special Operations Group consisting of 80 police officers for incidents for which the SWAT team isn’t sufficient. Most sheriff’s departments in the state have SWAT teams, as does just about every town with more than a half dozen stoplights, including Clinton, Pearl, Tupelo and Horn Lake. Even the Mississippi Alcohol Beverage Control agency has its own SWAT team. If you’re lucky, even your town’s mayor might strap on a gun and join the occasional SWAT raid.

So if you live in Olive Branch or Southaven, you’re covered not only by your town’s own SWAT team, but also the county SWAT team, the state police SWAT team, a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force, a fugitive unit, the state Alcohol Beverage Control SWAT team and federal SWAT teams from the field offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (at least — possibly others).

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KEYWORDS: confrontationwatch; donutwatch; feos; militarizedpolice; mississippi; swat; swatteam
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To: duffee

A reduction to zero would not be amiss.


21 posted on 02/28/2014 10:48:58 AM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: VanDeKoik

> So we are turning the police into the military....we just aren’t going to call them that?

If we called them military, they they’d be subject to posse comitatus.


22 posted on 02/28/2014 10:58:43 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Freedom isn't free; nor is it easy. END ALL TOTALITARIAN ACTIVITY NOW.)
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To: null and void

Cleverly done... I presume that is pronounced NAZI.


23 posted on 02/28/2014 11:28:48 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

But of course! And not by accident...


24 posted on 02/28/2014 11:36:16 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: Altariel

“So if you live in Olive Branch or Southaven, you’re covered not only by your town’s own SWAT team, but also the county SWAT team, the state police SWAT team, a multi-jurisdictional narcotics task force, a fugitive unit, the state Alcohol Beverage Control SWAT team and federal SWAT teams from the field offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (at least — possibly others).”

I fell so safe here in Southaven. All these jack booted thugs


25 posted on 02/28/2014 11:40:39 AM PST by Sybeck1
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To: Altariel

Holy h**l. This is horrifying. What a bunch of insane morons. I see the Police State doesn’t care if the State is Blue or Red.


26 posted on 02/28/2014 11:52:14 AM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: Altariel

Let’s see, the GOP controls the governorship and both chambers of the legislature in Mississippi. The party of ‘smaller, less intrusive govt.’ doing what it does so well.


27 posted on 02/28/2014 11:52:56 AM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Altariel
Get your fans ready for the onslaught.
28 posted on 02/28/2014 12:03:23 PM PST by bgill
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To: null and void

I thought as much


29 posted on 02/28/2014 12:04:29 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Altariel
You have got to be chitting me!
Mississippi? 4th Corporal A.P. Bradley is probably turning over in his grave.
30 posted on 02/28/2014 12:14:16 PM PST by Tupelo
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To: Altariel

Once once state AG has his own armed force, won’t all the other state AGs have to have their armed forces, too?


31 posted on 02/28/2014 12:39:28 PM PST by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: citizen

Keeping up with the Jones’s.....


32 posted on 02/28/2014 1:03:21 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Black Agnes

Tell you the truth, I had not heard that he had bugged out. When did he “bug out”?


33 posted on 02/28/2014 1:28:26 PM PST by billhilly
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To: Altariel

“A reduction to zero would not be amiss.”

I have no problem at all with that.


34 posted on 02/28/2014 1:37:57 PM PST by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: billhilly

http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/23159897/at


35 posted on 02/28/2014 1:51:19 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Boy, am I behind the curve. I live in Mississippi, am active in Mississippi politics,even hold a small elected position myself, but did not know about this. I’m guessing that it is of little consequence.


36 posted on 02/28/2014 2:27:21 PM PST by billhilly
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To: Altariel
How many Nazis broke the law when they kicked in the doors of the undesirables?

None.


Just because it's the law, doesn't make it JUST!

Prohibition MUST END!

If suicidal people want to ingest battery acid and drain cleaner, LET EM! It's not justification to MURDER or ENSLAVE them!

37 posted on 03/01/2014 11:55:46 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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