And now, as a result of the epic incompetence of this bunch of Barney Fifes in tacticool gear, a bunch more people who yesterday might have supported law enforcement think that the police deserve such threats.
The problem here wasn’t the threat. People make threats all the time.
The problem here is that cops are way too quick to use their toys and rather slow to use their brains.
There is a rather simple solution to this growing problem...make the cops lay out a $5 million dollar bond on the accuracy of their plan. This would involve a commercial evaluation of the cops and their potential screw-ups...with a fee put down for each and every raid. Then I’d take the five million and hand it that day over to the wronged victim. The cops involved? Well...the city council would start to ask about the cost factor of raids, and then eventually get involved in what was only a cop operation before.
The thing here....is if you go back to before the 1970s...we simply did not have raids. There’s been this massive growth since the 1980s for each community’s cops to run raids. I wouldn’t have an issue if this was done in daylight hours, but it’s now mostly always in the evening.
The comical side of this is that cops will insist that the raids are having an effect on drug sales in each community. If true, then the cost factor would be increasing. Take note, over the years, illegal drug cost really hasn’t ever been affected by one, or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand raids. If you remove one salesman, you simply are opening up the door for another salesman to enter...it is that simple.