Everyone has heard the one about the Dept. of Education SWAT raid against the family whose errant mom had defaulted on some college loans:
The black ninjya tacticool Gear Queers crashed through the front door started smashing stuff, right..?
Outrageous, but pretty standard:
You probably didn’t know that they TACKLED all three kids inside, ages 3, 7 and 11 and then locked them in a police cruiser outside for TWO HOURS while they questioned the dad.
About college loans.
Of the mom, who had not lived at that address in over two years.
PONDER THAT.
This stuff is going on all over the country according to news reports.
The problem seems to stem from two areas:
1. Encouragement of SWAT teams at the local level by the Department of Homeland Security by means of financial grants and supplying equipment like armored vehicles.
2.Desire of local police units to have ‘elite’ teams who get special pay and perks.
Once you have a SWAT team, the desire to put it to use is overwhelming. Every supposed criminal turns into the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army.