The police have a responsibility to enforce laws, whether the laws are sound or not. Marijuana and cocaine are illegal to own or possess. We may not like it, but the police do have a responsibility to enforce this, to the best of their ability, within the guidelines set forth by the policies of their departments, in accordance with the limitations set upon them by public officials. I no more fault the individual officers execting the raid then I fault any Soldier in Iraq who causes damage to a home when conducting a raid. The individual officers who execute raids like this, just like our Soldiers, do not make the rules.
Does it not seem rather self-evident that when you engage in the activity that the woman admits was occuring in her home that you put yourself at risk for incidents like this, especially if the "man" of the home has a history of drug use and the police had reason to believe that this was not going to be a low risk entry? Regardless of whether the law is just or unjust, you've got to use some common sense when considering what risk you are putting yourself at. I have lived in places where owning a firearm was illegal, but I chose to own one anyway. In those cases, I realized that I was doing something that, while I thought it morally and ethically pure, was illegal. And I knew that carried some risk with it. If the local constabulary had known that I was in possession of a firearm and saw fit to raid my dwelling, it seemed self-evident that they would come in with weapons at the ready. While I would have held a position of absolute moral superiority in complaining about the law, I would not have been in much of a position to complain about the actions of those enforcing it.
Thats pretty pathetic. The police in that area must not have very much to do.
Land of the free, my ass...
The police did the right thing. They arrested drug uses/dealers. Change the laws to allow crack and marijuana use if you don't like it.
That will never happen.
Women or woman I wonder?
How many is she exactly?
At least the jackboots got the 'right' house.
Gusee there is no REALK crime to deal with in sugar land like rape robery murder white collar crime etc etc.
So if some loser puts some contraband in the trash in front of my house and makes a phone call I'm suddenly targeted for investigation and can have my door kicked in, life threatened and house damaged? Seems that since the law provides no privacy protection for your trash they shouldn't be able to use what's in it as evidence since anyone walking down the street could have put it in there. On the bright side, it sounds like the Dhimmicrats have a new tool in their toolbox to expel conservatives. /s
I tend to freak out over attacking dogs (not scared, more like an adrenalin reaction that turns me into Dr. Jekyll's monster). That said, if you can't take a golden retriever out with the standard police bataka (club) - geez. It's not like retrievers are particularly big, or trained as attack dogs, or even dangerous if they WERE trained as attack dogs.
And don't forget that this raid cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars. But it was worth it! Our brave law enforcement officials go two joints off the streets!
They killed another dog? What is wrong with these swat teams?