From the article: “This sad trend appears to be a side effect of the new SWAT, paramilitary focus in many police departments, which has supplanted the idea of being an “officer of the peace.”
This is exactly what has happened to our police forces across the country. The HHS has expanded the war on Islamic terror to a war on the American people. We are all deemed suspected domestic “terrorists.”
The angrier people get from being abused in daily life (ie, at the airport or or other law enforcement contact) or having a friend or family member abused or seeing it in the news, the more respect Americans lose for the government and especially law enforcement.
That means they cooperate less less because they lose trust. We are headed for banana republic territory. This is actually making it MORE dangerous for police officers. They are making themselves an occupying force in our country. Check out Mexico!
We need to limit HHS to Islamic Terrorism only under the patriot act and we need to make politicans very sorry for calling Americans who are not Islamic terrorists - terrorists.
It is the “drug war” that has set up this system of “policing.” It is a war that cannot be “won” but will further and further lock down the population and is slowly turning into an actual Terror regine, real political Terror in the original meaning or the capitalized word. That is a means of control BY THE GOVERNMENT of the population by random and frequent acts of violence against the people and disappearances for little, no, or obviously false reasons to keep the people off balance and too afraid to do anything at all that the State might notice. It began with the French Revolution and Le Directoire and was polished by Lenin and Stalin. The US federal law enforcement, state LEA and local police are continually training in these tactics and practicing them, polishing them and getting the people used to fearing them.