[bk1000]

I am afraid if thugs like this busted in and shot my dogs I would have to (eventually) retaliate in some manner that would be unacceptable to many on FR.

[coconutt2000]

Operation Over Kill


It sounds like the Buffalo PD needs to refrain from big operations until they can beef up their intel department. Drug dealers operate in a framework that links to organized crime. I'm sure the FBI, CIA, and NSA have tons of information that big city police departments could use to roll up operations in their cities.

But information sharing in non-terror related criminal cases is probably still against public policy.

[highimpact]

Jack-Booted Thugs Ping

[patton]

sad.

[HAL9000]

City Council Member Dominic Bonifacio Jr. called the dismissals "a slap in the face to our men in blue," and blamed—apparently with a straight face—New York State's Rockefeller drug laws. "There's always talk about New York [State] being too hard on drug users," he said. "But maybe they need to be harder on the drug dealers."

That reminds me of a long-forgotten Clinton scandal, when he was governor of Arkansas and refused to extradite a cocaine smuggler to New York because, in his view, the New York laws were unfair. Someone should ask Hillary about that incident sometime.

[rogue yam]

I am not jumping on the JBT-phobic bandwagon just yet here. This article is deliberately inflammatory and misleading. Twenty people (apparently) now face felony drug charges and no human beings were injured in the process. Sure, Reason Magazine and some FReepers think that drugs should be legal. But guess what? They're not. People who are suspected of felonies were arrested. Get over it. It seems that some people have no idea what gun-toting drug dealers are like. If there were twenty drug dealers in your neighborhood, wouldn't you want them gone?

[SmoothTalker]

Disgusting. Another example of why the war on drugs has been a tremendous failure.

[neverdem]

New York Investigates Skating Rink for Playing Christian Music

The Battle for Roethlisberger's Brain - Is freedom just another word for falling on your face? Bloomboob gets plenty of dishonorable mention.

NYC councilman proposes limiting fast food (Holy HotDogStand, BatMan, What next?)

Revised Design for 9/11 Memorial Saves Many Features and Lowers Cost It includes six graphical renderings of the design.

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list. You can't make this stuff up.

[ActionNewsBill]

Police State Bump

[Leatherneck_MT]

It's only a matter of time before a neighborhood or city gets tired of being treated like this and begins ambushing cops.

I've no great love for drug dealers, but the tactics used here are highly questionable. Sounds like a bunch of wannabes out to look like the Marines at Iwo Jima.

[Bernard]

Six pounds of marijuana and seven ounces of crack from nearly forty residences, all of which housed suspected drug dealers? A massive, armored force of SWAT teams in battle garb, storming "all corners of the city," was necessary to seize just five guns?

Maybe there just is not much in the way of drugs in Buffalo. Maybe the problem has been hyped in order to obtain funding for uniforms, weapons, etc. Maybe a lot of things, but that many hits into a target rich environment should produce more impressive statistics. Maybe some more funding would help that too...

[DCPatriot]

If I lived back in Buffalo, New York, I'd do drugs just to keep my sanity.