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Nov 20 2009 02:40pm
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America

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Featuring the author Radley Balko, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute, with comments by Norm Stamper, Seattle Police Chief (Ret.) and author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Expose of the Dark Side of Policing.

Over the last 25 years, America has seen a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of SWAT units for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into homes. These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted suspects to the terror of having their homes invaded while they're sleeping. In a new Cato Institute white paper, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," policy analyst Radley Balko looks at this disturbing trend in police work and analyzes the drug war incentives that have inspired it - The Cato Institute

http://fora.tv/2006/09/12/Paramilitary_Police_Raids_in_America
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Nov 20 2009 02:41pm
SWAT is not paramilitary .
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Nov 20 2009 03:47pm
Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Nov 20 2009 03:41pm)
SWAT is not paramilitary .


but they have guns.
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Nov 20 2009 03:56pm
Actually it is considered paramilitary by the very definition of the word.
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Nov 20 2009 04:40pm
Cops used to be cops.
Now they are only accepting applicants with a lower than average IQ and turning them into enforcement officers.

They are there to collect a paycheck for enforcing the invisible whips (fines, violations, etc etc which are occurring at an increasing rate now) to each of you slaves.

Yes, I just called you a slave.
Prove me wrong.
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Nov 20 2009 04:44pm
Quote (datajunky @ Nov 20 2009 04:40pm)
Cops used to be cops.
Now they are only accepting applicants with a lower than average IQ and turning them into enforcement officers.

They are there to collect a paycheck for enforcing the invisible whips (fines, violations, etc etc which are occurring at an increasing rate now) to each of you slaves.

Yes, I just called you a slave.
Prove me wrong.


My best friend is going into law enforcement, possibly SWAT.

Where do you live, again?

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Nov 20 2009 07:47pm
Quote (datajunky @ Nov 20 2009 05:40pm)
Cops used to be cops.
Now they are only accepting applicants with a lower than average IQ and turning them into enforcement officers.

They are there to collect a paycheck for enforcing the invisible whips (fines, violations, etc etc which are occurring at an increasing rate now) to each of you slaves.

Yes, I just called you a slave.
Prove me wrong.


I'm perfectly content with being a "slave".

Does this anger you?
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Nov 20 2009 08:00pm
Quote (inkanddagger @ Nov 20 2009 04:56pm)
Actually it is considered paramilitary by the very definition of the word.


when they are ready to become a force ready to assist the military you might have something

until then they are just sworn officers of the law who have been trained in the basics of military assault and have the firepower to serve warrants against an often heavily armed aggressor and rescue hostages when they are taken

stop feeding the childish paranoia

This post was edited by WidowMaKer_MK on Nov 20 2009 08:01pm
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Nov 20 2009 08:57pm
Quote (datajunky @ 20 Nov 2009 14:40)
Cops used to be cops.
Now they are only accepting applicants with a lower than average IQ and turning them into enforcement officers.

They are there to collect a paycheck for enforcing the invisible whips (fines, violations, etc etc which are occurring at an increasing rate now) to each of you slaves.

Yes, I just called you a slave.
Prove me wrong.


Well if I were a slave I would be someone's property, I wouldn't receive any form of payment for my labor, I couldn't enter into any for of legal contract/agreement, and I sure as hell wouldn't be allowed to own a gun.

I can't even imagine how much people who are actually slaves in world would love to have a tiny fraction of the privileges that I've received just because of where I was born.
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Nov 20 2009 08:59pm
Pigs.
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