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.
Some time back a neighbor and I were chatting and he brought up a incident he had read about on the internet. he asked me what I knew about it and I told him that I knew just as much as he did since I wasn’t there and he wasn’t either.
He then said something that has bothered me since then. He said there have always been gangs around in the United States going all the way back to the early colonial days. But today the Gang he fears the most is not the Crips or the Bloods or MS-13, no today he fears the Police the most. Because they don’t seem to care about the results of their actions and they don’t seem to get punished by the legal system. And most of all because they are the most heavily armed of the gangs and seem to love using the stuff the most.
I kind of agreed but then I told him it might be better for his blood pressure to start reading a book in the evening rather than watching the news or browsing the ‘net’.