Posted on 09/14/2013 7:03:46 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Edited on 09/14/2013 7:41:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Just like Delta Force operatives hunting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pittsburgh Police SWAT raided a house. I listened to it on the scanner. The police went out of their way not to hurt any pitbulls that were guarding the house they were hitting.
Was kind of encouraging.
Most of this is directly attributable to conservatives/GOP.
The GOP has been the law and order party that has consistently used crime as a political wedge issue.
A Republican started the war on drugs. A republican was the first prez to give military hardware to law enforcement. A republican prez was the first to give DHS grants to law enforcement. The GOP has promoted gun ownership and because there are more guns law enforcement feels safer with military type raids.
Most GOPers say that these botched raids are not really a problem, that they are relatively small percentage of the total raids/dynamic entries. The only difference is that thru the years and decades, the number of swat teams and swat raids have increased.
No PDCA cycle for the cops?
Oh, do they have Cursive Edition Scrabble?
Whenever this happens, the officers who applied for the warrant ought to be disallowed to write any warrants for one year following.
They should be forced by law to face a significant penalty, in any event.
The proliferation of these SWAT raids will make it easy for on the spot executions with the excuse of “he resisted the search”.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
THAT is hilarious! Thanks for posting.
“The “ State police “ are the states police, not ours.”
They never were for YOUR protection, silly.
When was the last time a “Jashavious” appeared on a Dean’s List?
I guess they didn’t have a dog to shoot.
LOL! Never seen one. Kinda doubt that I ever will.
There is a super easy solution to this: defund the police. Why do we need anything more than a minimal sheriff presence anyway? If even 10% of the population routinely and openly carried the tools of liberty, violent crime would go away and we would have little need for the police.
The person responsible for you and your family’s safety is the person looking at you in the mirror.
So then we need newer waves of constitutional conservatives/libertarians who will lead the new charge and represent a new breed of conservatism in general. We have some of them here who are representing this movement right here oN FR and fighting an honorable and often lonely battle. Maybe some of them can come in here and share their thoughts with you on this matter too.
To those that were pinged, I figured you might be interested in this discussion and sharing more insight on the need for this new constitutional conservatism movement in general. If you would prefer not to join, that is fine but I figured it would be nice to here from some resident conservative-libertarian warriors around here.
You are quite welcome!
“Jashavious, now that is a great name.”
Yeah, I’ll have to wander down to the drug store and see just what “jashivious” is used to treat!
And in addition to keeping the money where it belongs, that approach would keep the freedom and power where it belongs. Thus, they'll never allow it.
Sure fire antidote to common sense in naming your kids...or maybe it promotes that!
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