Posted on 07/08/2009 4:17:48 AM PDT by grjr21
Armed with handguns and posing as police, a group of men yesterday invaded three homes in Prince George's County, binding the occupants and demanding money and in one case a flat-screen TV, police said.
The intruders first hit a red brick apartment building in District Heights, cuffing a woman with plastic bindings and asking her where she kept her money, according to the woman's account. Next they moved to a two-story home in Glenarden, disregarding the alarm company security sign in the front yard as they broke in, police said.
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Get a bigger sign!
Get a bigger sign!
You are so not with it..we need to outlaw or regulate signs in yards..that way we are all safer..only police should have signs..oh..and only one sign per household per month..
Armed with handguns and posing as police, a group of men yesterday invaded three homes in Prince George’s County, binding the occupants and demanding money and in one case a flat-screen TV, police said
These citizens need to vote for democrats in the next election so they can experience this again and again......
Since their elected government disarms themand not real criminals this willnever stop.
All we need now across the country is citizens standing their ground when police show up especially is accidental cases of a SWAT team being sent to the wrong address, and granny pulls out an Uzi, or some tech dudes use homemade claymores. Only by reason I live in a small rural area in Alaska that I know basically if my local law enforcement is real or not is that I have minimal worry.
The police had better make targeting the faux police their highest priority, or else.
Coming soon to a urban and suburban area near you!
This bears repeating!!! Also, no-knock raids should be reserved for the relatively few situations where they are necessary, so the law-abiding can know a home invasion is not a mistaken warrant service.
WTH is wrong with you? Pot calling kettle Neo Nazi...maybe you should just de-join if you are unable to discuss this without attacking the respondee.
No, get a shotgun.
Your last paragraph is the most pathetic, vulgar personal attack I have seen posted in quite a while here at FR.
“It’s asinine comments like yours that helps gives conservatives a bad name.” - your own words apply to you very appropriately.
Your words rank right up there with Letterman’s, IMO. Shame on you!
This is one of my pet peeves about LE wearing masks, they should always be identifiable, always. Undercover is different, but bona fide cops always in complete uniform, name tags and NO MASKS.
What I find pathetic, and confirms for me the type of person that posts here, is the fact that over and over, the Police here are compared to NAZIS and are constantly being attacked. These attacks go unanswered. Yet when the Freeper who attacks the person who posts these stupid, asinine anti-cop threads, they get attacked!!
My response results from the absolute frustration of reading so many anti cop statements and the lack of challenge from other FReepers. I really do worry that I’ve been posting on an anti-Govt. site w/o realizing it.
I will, as another suggested, de-join FR and look for another Conservative site. I joined here to engage in serious banter with like-minded conservatives and have enjoyed doing so. But these vile, vulgar, and pathetic attack on LEO’s that have been occurring more and more have ruined this place for me. Some good friends and relatives of mine are LEO’s so EXCUSE ME if I get just a little tired of reading this crap over and over.
Will we notice the difference when it’s Obama’s “Census takers” or “EPA inspectors”?
“It’s asinine comments like yours that helps gives conservatives a bad name”—”It’s not the Polices’ fault that you probably grew up in a dysfunctional home and had a bad relationship with your Father. Nor is it their fault that your wife probably left you after another failed copulation attempt. Try coming up for air from your basement in ‘occupied GA’ and make an attempt at getting a life loser”
Take a look in your mirror to see a two faced, demeaning hypocrite.
As this article reveals, it is easy to pose as police executing a no-knock warrant. Crooks can get the gear to do this easily. Anybody can get hats & shirts with “POLICE” emblazoned on them - cheap. The mask is irrelevant unless the victim happens to know everybody on the police force. Seeing their face still gives me no clue whether they are good guys or bad guys.
It is not possible to properly identify yourself as police during the chaotic few seconds of a no-knock warrant entry.
The victims here are in a helpless situation, even if armed. They have only seconds to determine if it REALLY is Police, thru a solid door. Once the door is knocked down, they have 2 options. Either start shooting & hope it is the BAD guys, or don't shoot & hope it is the Police. If they guess wrong, they're likely dead.
Law abiding citizens should not have to make this terrible choice. If Police would stop doing no-knock warrants except in extremely rare & dangerous circumstances, then people would have no doubt about what to do: Fill the intruders with lead.
I don't care for it either... But, over the past few years, police departments all across the country have been reduced into revenue gathering union employees, duped into becoming private property confiscation agents for corrupt courts or worse.
The bureaucratic hiring practices weed out all of the good ones with politically correct psychological profiling.
Instead of getting Rick Hunters, T.J. Hookers, Dirty Harrys, Cordell Walkers or Joe Fridays we get "diversity" or the police chief of San Francisco...
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