—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.
Got this link from my son. We have an ongoing (several years) discussion of this topic under the email subject line:
See Something, Say Something
Sorry. I screwed up the link in the title ... good link is in 1st reply
Trust the boot on your throat, it is there for your own good!!!!
Bfl
Police has militarized in this country.
SWAT is simply a manifestation of this general trend than also includes M4s, armored vehicles, changing to more military like uniforms, etc.
The CATO map misses tons of incidents that just don’t make the paper...wonder what the map would look like if ALL documented incidents were posted?
Where are the drones?
wolfie could blow this map up and put it on the wall over his bed. It might ‘work’ better for him than his old Nazi Germany Jackboot Gestapo ones..............
Quasi-military or pseudo-military would be more honest.
I’ve posted this link in multiple “raid gone bad” threads.
Worthwhile post, though.
The deeper reason this is so disturbing is that peace officers are not something that can be dispensed with. There really, actually IS a “thin blue line” that preserves civilization on a day-to-day basis. So turning them into storm troopers isn’t just a storm trooper problem (admittedly a rather large problem all in itself), it’s also the loss of the absolutely crucial peace officer. So it’s a double whammy, and especially dangerous because of that double hit.