The level of violence recently displayed by police suggests to me that they may be using steroids.
My son was visiting friends across the street from his house when bounty hunters, accompanied by local police, broke down his door and stormed in, looking for someone at another address. I am very glad he was across the street. If he had been home, someone would have died in the course of this officially sanctioned home invasion because my son would have opened fire.
And people wonder why there are cop haters?
When (not if) these paramilitary goons come for the law and order types they will be getting everything they deserve. I tried to warn these people until I was blue in the face that these goon squads were just practicing on the potheads and their turn was coming. I'm through warning and I'm going to just get ready to hand out heaping helpings of "I told you so."
Its all about “officer safety”.
That’s all that matters.
How in the hell do you admit to blindly shooting into a room, killing a woman and injuring a baby, and get away with it?
This is despicable. I am a cop. And hearing this stuff makes me sick.
"One word - Watertown, Massachusetts"
Boston Strong, my a$$
Cowering Moonbats is more like it.
Spring 2005, outside on the property boundary between my place and an adjacent field, hitting golf balls into the open field (early spring ritual)- A “concerned” neighbor calls police to report me for disturbing the ecosystem of a wetland (patch of cattails to my far left)...
Three fully equipped officers of the law in two patrol cars were dispatched to the scene because the caller expressed fear for his life (golf club-waving, yelling, etc.). The caller recorded my voice (profanity, etc.) and took pictures of me and my golf clubs, balls,, etc.
The boys looked a little silly as they convened. The first one to speak to me was kind of ‘uppity’ in his demeanor, which his two partners immediately began to emulate.
One cop, who I’m certain was young enough to be my son, quoted the complainant as saying that my golf swing sucked. Then, another eager beaver stated (for the record) that he’d heard the playback of the caller’s tape “verbatim” while giving me a stern look of disapproval.
I had to explain that I’d been doing that for three or four years and that I always go out there to retrieve as many balls as I can to reuse them the next year for the same thing but the neighbor didn’t want to listen to that as he punched in the numbers to call the police.
In fact, I had found all of the balls I was hitting during initial walks through the field. Only I knew that somebody else had left them there several years before. I actually had to dig most of the out of the ground, clean them up, etc. before I ever used them myself.
No ticket, not even a warning...just a bunch of cops “making a difference” in our wonderful community. The pictures taken by the neighbor were “released” to the custody of the property manager but I later retrieved them from my permanent records as a tenant...The neighbor has long since moved out and I still get a big kick out of those photos!
We’ve been warned since 1968 of the militarization of the police. The Leftists have always wanted a federal police force, so they have settled for the next best thing.
SEAL Team wannabees. It’s easy when your “battle space” is just one house five minutes from the office and populated mostly with unarmed and unsuspecting civilians.
Under Obama, they are misusing the military. He was trying to be a isolationist and a anti-military guy in his first term, but now since 2011 he is into using them. But at the same time is trying to destroy the troops from within. He wants pro-Obama/ progressive troops basically. And now he has began dragging McCain and his establishment clan along with him. McCain used to blast Obama’s foreign policy. Now he is agreeing with him more and more.
Under Bush, the mission was clearer and the objectives were set. We have to eradicate islamofascists. But it started getting mruky around 2007-2008. Obama then came with the goal to mess it up and confuse people about which side of the fence to be on. In favor of military use or against it. Worried about surveillance polices or in favor of them to catch the bad guys. Obama is not a good guy or pro-American so he is using the military to do whatever he damn feels like it.
He has been all over the map himself. So he is playing a cruel joke on America. The goal is to destroy the military.
From an innocent shopping trip to a false drug test, new court documents reveal what triggered a traumatic and fruitless raid of a Leawood family’s home.
When we first met Bob and Addie Harte in March, they had no idea why deputies from the Johnson County Sheriff’s office had banged on their door in April 2012 looking for marijuana. Their only guess was the hydroponic garden in their basement. The father-son project was for growing tomatoes and squash — not marijuana.
The Hartes sued to get the police records, and 41 Action News filed a request for the information weeks ago. Those records reveal it all started when a member of the Missouri Highway Patrol spotted Bob Harte at The Green Circle in August 2011.
The owner of the hydroponics store in the River Market isn’t happy his customers are being watched.
“Why should they be?” asked Bennie Palmentere. “This isn’t a communist country.”
Seven months later in March 2012, that MHP member called the tip into the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. Incident reports and a search warrant affidavit state deputies then spent three early April mornings digging through the Hartes trash.
The first week they found nothing. But during the second and third weeks, reports say they found wet leaves and stems which “field-tested positive” for marijuana. This led to obtaining the search warrant, which was served April 20, 2012.
Deputies found nothing illegal when they served the search warrant. When the plants in the Hartes basement tested negative, officials had the plant evidence found in the trash retested, but this time in the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Criminalistics Laboratory.
Lab tests of the plants from the trash came back negative this time. Lab forms state “these are yielding false positive tests from the marijuana field test kits”. There had never been marijuana in the Harte’s trash at all.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office declined to comment, citing pending litigation. Bob and Addie Harte Family released a statement through their attorney:
We have reviewed the materials produced concerning the raid of our home. The facts speak for themselves and are more incriminating of law enforcement than we might have imagined. We cannot understand how the low level of police work, which included using an unreliable marijuana field test, could have permitted a swat-style raid of our home. We have also found out, for the first time, that reliable laboratory testing was done after the raid and proved that there was no marijuana whatsoever in our garbage.
SOUTH COUNTY, MO (KTVI)– Residents were alarmed after a SWAT team lined a South County neighborhood Tuesday night.
The quiet South County street was crawling with SWAT officers, an unnerving situation which turns out to have been the relatively routing service of a warrant.
An unidentified man pulled up around 8:15 p.m. was frisked by police and then detained for questioning, but what got neighbors here very upset happened a few minutes earlier. It was the presence of a SWAT team, complete with officers wearing armor and carrying assault rifles surrounding the man’s home as police went to the door. One woman frantically told her husband, the army’s here.
As it turns out, St. Louis County police say the use of the SWAT team is standard procedure in serving a felony warrant, no matter what it’s for. In this case officers say it was an administrative warrant, though they wouldn’t elaborate. For people on Autumn Drive, it was all a little unsettling.
Police say that it was the service of an administrative warrant by their special investigations unit. Officers will not go into any greater detail, though SWAT team members were downplaying it again saying that their presence on any felony warrant search is standard practice.
http://fox2now.com/2013/08/13/warrant-served-causes-scare-in-south-county-neighborhood/
WND has been reporting on the trend to militarize local police departments for more than a decade. Here is a list of reports on the trend, which recently has begun to garner significant additional attention:
WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah wrote in a 1998 column titled “The cops are out of control” that while in years past seeing a police officer gave him a sense of security, it was no longer the case because of recent actions at the time by SWAT teams.
“The recent incidents in Oklahoma, where police shot an unarmed mother holding her child in her home, in Virginia, where a SWAT team killed a watchman guarding a dice game at an after-hours club and in California, where a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid on a gun shop resulted in the death of the shopkeeper, provide some hard evidence that police in America may be getting out of control,” Farah said.
He went on to note the danger of police agencies acquiring military gear even back then.
“The biggest danger we face is the federalization and militarization of all law enforcement. Inter-agency task forces, bringing together local and state police with federal agents are now the rule of the day,” Farah noted. “Federal agencies bribe local cops with funding, equipment and training programs.”
http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/wnd-reports-on-swat-raids-on-the-innocent/