Posted on 06/24/2014 4:52:40 PM PDT by lwd
The American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its year-long study of police militarization.
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But weve already seen cases in which the mere factor that the resident of a home was a legal gun owner in some cases by virtue of the fact that the owner had obtained some sort of state license was used as an excuse to execute a full-on SWAT raid to serve a warrant for an otherwise nonviolent crime. Of the SWAT raids the ACLU studied in which police cited the possibility of finding a weapon in the home, they actually found a weapon just 35 percent of the time.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We ARE getting better at hiding them...
I'm afraid you overestimate voters. The majority are still law & order absolutists who think it's 1971 and only hippies and Black Panthers criticize the brave men in blue who put their lives on the line ... blah, blah. Most Americans either never heard of a cop shooting a dog, or think it's cool. They WANT authority. The majority of FReepers were that way not too long ago. But there's too much info here for us to all just look away.
I once heard Levin make ONE quick reference to police militarization. But you can tell he and the other big hosts are on a tight leash.
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