You mean these awesome jackasses?
All SWATs should be abolished.
Posted on 08/05/2020 10:44:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
If you happen to be an aspiring domestic terrorist, particularly in or around Boston, with a hankering to blow up a marathon or some other large, public event, it’s been a pretty good week for you. First we learned that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty sentence has been revoked. (At least temporarily.) And now we find out that the elite Boston Transit SWAT team that was widely celebrated for bringing Tsarnaev to justice has been unceremoniously disbanded. Officers assigned to the highly-trained unit were told to turn in their special equipment and return to more regular duty. (CBS Boston)
The highly trained Transit SWAT team that was once celebrated for capturing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been dissolved.
Transit Police spend a lot of time training for anything that could happen. And in 2013, the unimaginable did…
For a unit that was so highly trained and regarded, sources say the team is disappointed that it has been dissolved.
The I-Team reached out to the Transit Police and were told it had no comment on disbanding the unit.
The obvious question here would be… why? The CBS News team who broke this story asked the Boston PD but received no comment. The closest they came was an observation made by some inside sources who said that the tactical team “had not been used on calls much over the last few years.”
It’s hard not to wonder if the current climate of social unrest and riots isn’t playing into this decision. Mayor Marty Walsh has been under a lot of pressure to defund the police and institute other sweeping reforms. One of the big complaints we’ve been hearing regularly out of Seattle and Portland is that the police are too “militarized” and they shouldn’t be looking or acting like “storm troopers.” SWAT teams tend to go about their business while very well armed and armored. Was this some stealth maneuver intended to fend off that sort of criticism by making the transit cops look more warm and fuzzy?
I guess more people will do something....
You’re on your own
Boston surrenders to invaders again. Just this time not from England.
Was this the unit riding in Mraps pointing ar-15s/m4s at residents peeking out of their windows?
Because, of course they did.
The citizens of Boston will get what they deserve for electing a bunch of morons to govern them.....................
Common expectation of big city living
Take away the cops, impoverish the society via reparations and "social workers", grab all the guns...
Well, in Stabbystabbystan big cities.
That has to be the fake news story of the day, or history is already being re-written.
In fact, the younger Tsarnaev was found wounded and hiding in a boat by a guy in Watertown who went out back to smoke a cigarette. The various SWAT teams, police, and federal agents had missed him as the searched the neighborhood and rousted people from their houses.
The credit for finding the terrorist should go to the civilian who actually found him. After that happened multiple teams including FBI SWAT teams converged on Tsarnaev.
I don't know if any dogs were killed, but plenty of constitutional rights were violated.
But then again Lincoln dumped the constitution during the Civil War, Wilson dumped it during WWI, FDR dumped it during the Depression, and every president since 911 has dumped it.
So one step in the opposite direction might be a good thing.
It’s the Transit Police,not the Boston police....no big deal.
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You mean these awesome jackasses?
All SWATs should be abolished.
I don’t recall SWAT teams busting into people’s homes.....do you have a link?
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Reassign those highly trained SWAT team members to something useful...like catching turnstile cheaters.
Why do the Transit Police need their own SWAT team? A city needs one SWAT team that knows what they’re doing, not ten different agencies with their own teams, all itching to do something with all their toys.
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