Posted on 10/09/2024 2:32:07 PM PDT by Retain Mike
In March of this year, Bryan Malinowski, the executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas, was killed by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) during a pre-dawn raid of his home. It was an unwarranted and indefensible killing of a kind that should never, ever happen in a free country like the United States. Because we have a media that no longer serves in its traditional role as a government watchdog, this incident was not widely reported. Because too many members of Congress no longer take seriously their responsibility to protect the rights of those who elect them, the ATF has suffered no repercussions.
I served in the military as a Special Operations sniper and Sniper Team leader in 1st Ranger Battalion. I could have gone on to become a sharpshooter on a police SWAT team or even joined the FBI or one of the other three-letter federal agencies that were widely considered, in the past, to be the cream of the crop in terms of law enforcement. Sadly, they are no longer thought of in the same way.
The flip side of the increasingly thuggish character of these agencies is their diminished effectiveness in fulfilling their core missions, to the point that the American public cannot help but notice. Consider the recent assassination attempt—very nearly successful—on President Trump. The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are being anything but transparent about their investigations and seem to be going out of their way to make it as difficult as possible for Congress and the public to learn what happened.
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Malinowski had insufficient melanin for the DNC media to get interested, much less outraged.
“I served in the military as a Special Operations sniper and Sniper Team leader in 1st Ranger Battalion. I could have gone on to become a sharpshooter on a police SWAT team or even joined the FBI or one of the other three-letter federal agencies that were widely considered, in the past, to be the cream of the crop in terms of law enforcement.”
And that is actually part of the problem. Too many cops have a hyper-militarized point of view and see themselves as an occupying force. So we start seeing MRAPs and armored vehicles. We see them wearing plate carriers and their chests are festooned with AR mags, tourniquets and morale patches. They wear military camo and combat boots. They speak of police officers and “civilians”.
And one other other place I beg to differ. That cream of the crop has never actually been true in FBI or any other 3 letter agency. Any number of state and local departments have been just as respected, professional and effective. That “cream of the crop” is their own opinion of themselves.
The actual problem is that as power has been sucked and concentrated into DC for the last few decades, their police agencies have been able to throw their weight around like never before.
“As pointed out in this piece, they could have gone to Malinowski’s place of work — an airport — where they could be certain he would be unarmed. Instead they chose an early-morning raid at his home”
And his arrest could have been followed up 10 minutes later with a group with a search warrant for his house and him safely in custody. It’s not like someone can flush 40 Glocks or whatever.
And similar to what you said. David Koresh went to lunch every week at Chelsea Street Pub in Waco. And in the post surrendered peacefully to the McClennan County Sheriff on a homicide charge. He beat it in court.
A couple of agents in sport coats could have knocked on the door and Waco would have gone well. Instead they had a horse trailer filled with agents that looked like soldiers, storming out the back in an assault like it was Omaha Beach.
First thing the Feds do when they come to town is visit the Sheriff because without that permission they cannot do sheet.
The various alphabet agencies know that no matter how egregious the offense, no one will hold them credible. The ATF and FBI has literally gotten away with murder for decades.
Well, they can, but they might not be able to use the jail, call for backup, etc. Life is a lot harder without locals.
Also, the dirty little secret, is that most FBI agents literally never personally make an arrest or conduct a traffic stop in their life. A local cop goes to bar fights alone or with one other guy. He does traffic stops, rolls up on an armed robber, goes to the bank robber, arrests the drug dealer on the corner, walks into the armed robbery or violent domestic.
Feds are wildly inexperienced. Back of the envelope, they are about 40 times less likely to get in a shooting with an actual bad guy than locals. They just aren’t in places where people pull guns on them. The US Marshals are probably the best as they go out trying to arrest fugitives.
Spot on.
And I used to be part of: “the premiere law enforcement and investigative agency in the world.” (They recycle that statement often)
Under Obama many of these federal law enforcement agencies took a nose dive. The effects of strategic blunders are often felt years later and that is where we are at today.
Why? DEI.
Obama, Holder, Lynch, Comey... they pushed that hard and I am sure that legacy continues with Wray who appeared sort of a bureaucratic type of weak leader that would never stand in the way or take the initiative to correct something like that.
What you ended up with is folks being recruited that had no true skills developed in their past education and experiences that would help them be a good agent. We hired a lot of teachers, social workers, folks that might be nice people but really didn’t have any skills that were useful. We began hiring straight from college (young people) and in the past that was almost unheard of. The average age at the academy used to be 31.5 years and everyone had a past life (probably about 1/2 being former law enforcement or military).
But it gets worse. They began promoting people into senior ranks and even within the senior executive schedules there were OBVIOUS diversity hires, many of whom were simply not the brightest, most experienced, best trained, educated, or in other words “best qualified.” It was OBVIOUS. You ended up with a bunch of women, blacks, Latinos, and homosexuals (yes, them too) that were promoted according to the Peter Principal.
IMHO, even the first shooting where Trump nearly lost his head is a sad but perfect example. Some speculate and believe it was intentional. It’s simply not comprehensible that a professional organization of that size, with that many years experience, and that sort of budget makes such amateur mistakes. Surely, this must be the establishment trying to knock him off (so goes the reasoning)! But it does make perfect sense when you realize what we have been doing regards how we hire and promote folks today. Hats off to the guys that jumped before the President to protect him, they did well. But there are many pieces that all come together to provide security in the bigger picture and there were many amateur and I mean “WTF” sort of mistakes made.
If I hire clowns and promote clowns within my organization, maybe things begin to look like a clown show.
A few years ago, my son resigned from ICE, because they would no longer allow him to act according to his mission. As the Biden directives came down most of the guys in his office expressed similar outrage. He wrote a very hot letter with which his supervisor agreed, but had chose not to resign because he was just a couple years away from retirement. None of the others would leave the agency though. My son said to hell with the pay and benefits and left without any idea of what he would do next.
Maybe the out of control criminals have a lot to do with the law enforcement personnel. Fight fire with fire.
Maybe the out of control criminals have a lot to do with the law enforcement personnel. Fight fire with fire.
We were warned, back in 1968, by the underground press that the government wanted a US FEDERAL POLICE FORCE.
It's also a sign of how bad the economy is that the average pay for a young man is so much higher in the public than the private sector. Another "benefit" of free trade is a public sector too frightened to buck unlawful orders from our political goons.
What they do in my town is sneak in and get set up, and hope local LE doesn't get wind of it. Then, they will call local LE once they are ready to bust the perp. Often, local LE here will head them off and not let them take the perp out of the county.
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