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Posted on 08/05/2014 3:25:31 PM PDT by bamahead
Edited on 08/05/2014 3:27:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Barry Township, Michigan, with a population of about 4,000, has four full-time police officers, four part-time officers, two Humvees, two armored personnel carriers (free, courtesy of the Defense Department's 1033 program)
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Peeing in an empty,dark parking lot could lead to more serious crimes like not wearing your seatbelt and tearing off mattress tags.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if this was the start of a real push back? I hope the good people of Barry Township get their community back from the JBTs and demote the supercilious police chief to dog catcher.
No military equipment should ever be procured by civilian police, because if they have it , they will be eager to use it, whether it is necessary or not.
I wouldn’t trust that JBT near anyone’s dog.
LOL! Good point...Let him be chief pooper scooper at the zoo then.
All dogs in the area should be immediately granted asylum.
It’s about time.
These clowns see footage of Iraq and think, “Hey, we can do that here, and we don’t even have to deploy to where it’s dangerous!”
Snoopy Snipers.
That many cops for that few people is just ridiculous, the military equipment on top of it is completely absurd.
We only had 5 both full and part time total cops in our township of 2000 people. We even liked our cops but still got rid of them simply because there was no point in having them.
IF you give them the tools, and the authority to use them, just what does one expect them to do?
At this point, all of this military hardware needs to go back to the DoD and be stored or scrapped. Not given to local police to fortify Bath-House Barry’s “civilian security force just as well armed and well funded as the military to meet the security objectives they have set”.
The police are no longer here to “protect and serve”, except the state and themselves.
Just who do these police work for? The taxpaying public, or the state? it is obvious that they are here to protect the state and its apparatchiks, the public be damned.
Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars blog says, “Thanks for the military hardware! It’ll be right where we need it, when we need it.”
This town is about 30 minutes northwest of Battle Creek, where I live - I am shocked that I have not heard anything about this militarization. I keep looking in our city police parking lot that is on the main drag through downtown and haven’t seen anything. So if they have stuff, too, where are they hiding it? This police chief in Barry Township needs to be incarcerated himself for abuse of power.
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