Column: The militarization of U.S. police forces

[cadet]

http://news.msn.com/us/fla-city-bans...tch-volunteers

[fj1200]

http://www.policestateusa.com/2013/j...hot-by-police/

Well, when your site is called Police State USA...


Fodder for drummond

[Arbo]

Whoa, I didn't say that, I just disagreed with the OP on its nefarious nature. Atlanta had problems with their Red Dog Team years before BO was on the scene and they've been shut down. But if you have the Feds offer to small towns the opportunity to get something they would have no means to get on their own and you bet they're going to take them up. What little sheriff/mayor/commissioner/etc. isn't going to like having that on their next reelection brochure?

OTOH if you have criminals expanding and becoming more dangerous its not surprising that law enforcement is going to have to take some steps to keep up. But yes, I agree its use is overstated and not every jurisdiction needs to have their own SWAT team.

You appear to be the only person in this thread using common sense. Congratulations.

There are more and more cases of LEO's overreacting and using too much force, but that more than likely has to do with the attitude and disposition of some that go into LE than some master plan to go after citizens (as the OP suggests). It seems that far too often, threads like this belong in a CT section.

[cadet]

Well, when your site is called Police State USA...


Fodder for drummond

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2...ice-front-door




It just happened to be the site I came across. There's plenty of others.

[fj1200]

There's plenty of others.

I know, it's just a matter of what extensions we make from what might be unrelated occurrences.

[revelarts]

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2...ice-front-door

It just happened to be the site I came across. There's plenty of others.

police over reaction much...
Woman calls says a her man has a gun . AAAA!!!! call SWAT, bring a TANK! GET the TACTICAL RV!!! SNIPERS!!!! DOGS!!! CLEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!

ok okok He talking but he didn't OBey everything the police said. So he's a real treat to public safety there at the door of his own house.
WHA! he dropped his empty hands TOO FAST! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!
Ok he's dead. and we found one dangerous hand gun on the other side of the house. just like our tip said. that was a close one.phew



just crazy.

[fj1200]

John Oliver Talks Ferguson Violence & Militarized Police: 'This Whole Story Is Depressingly Familiar'

The comedian reserved his most pointed barbs, however, for the police themselves, not just in Ferguson but throughout the country. While Oliver made it clear that "not all cops are bad," he drove home the top-down problem of an increasingly militarized police force in the wake of the war on drugs and September 11 attacks.
"The police are not soldiers. So why in this photo from Ferguson are they wearing fucking camo? They are northwest of St. Louis, not northwest of the Amazon." He went on, "If you are a cop in the United States, you should dress for the job you have, not the job you want."

[debater]

Americans are whistling down to the concentration camps.

[Gunny]

Americans are whistling down to the concentration camps.

Wow. 2013. Gaffer's even in this one. Anything going on in the world TODAY? Not yours apparently.

[debater]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You're no more a chinese commie than the man in the moon is.

You're a class A troll, and here to do nothing more than to troll, and disrupt the board.

[aboutime]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I thought you looked familiar....<img src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcknGuj_1Dwi4DBHbt5_Dcvc8E99Q-F8bCF2uqks0lNSUqhfMy">

[Black Diamond]

You're no more a chinese commie than the man in the moon is.

You're a class A troll, and here to do nothing more than to troll, and disrupt the board.

I knew that about him. I always had the itchy trigger finger.

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Some Americans may have felt uneasy 35 years ago when DUI laws, DWI checkpoints, seatbelt laws, and car liability insurance laws were started, but most people felt that the experts must be right.


Pro-police state shows like "COPS" and "America's Most Wanted" were then aired, neighborhood watch groups were formed, "get tough on crime" candidates were elected, and laws allowing mandatory minimums, IMBRA, 3 strikes laws, curfews, police militarization, teen boot camps, school metal detectors, private prisons, and chain gangs were enacted.

Nanny state smoking laws then started appearing.

When 9/11 happened, the Patriot Act was passed, NSA wiretapping, no knock raids, take down notices, no fly lists, terror watch lists, Constitution free zones, stop and frisk, kill switches, National Security Letters, DNA databases, kill lists, FBAR, FATCA, Operation Chokepoint, TSA groping, civil forfeiture, CIA torture, NDAA indefinite detention, secret FISA courts, FEMA camps, laws requiring passports for domestic travel, IRS laws denying passports for tax debts, gun and ammo stockpiles, laws outlawing protesting, Jade Helm, sneak and peek warrants, policing for profit, no refusal blood checkpoints, license plate readers, redlight cameras, speed cameras, FBI facial and voice recognition, tattoo databases, gun bans, the end to the right to silence, free speech bans, searches without warrants, CISPA, SOPA, private prison quotas, supermax prisons, sex offender registration laws, and sex offender restriction laws were allowed.

Now that the USA is a total police state, Americans are finding out that changing anything is impossible and that freedom is lost forever.