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MA: Police Get Black Uniforms to Instill Sense of 'Fear'
Fox News/AP ^ | 4/24/08 | n/a

Posted on 04/28/2008 9:40:26 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

Springfield's men in black are returning.

The city's new police commissioner, William Fitchet, says members of the department's Street Crime Unit will again don black, military-style uniforms as part of his strategy to deal with youth violence.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: banglist; crimecorruption; leo; police; uniform
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To: kiriath_jearim

Police are not the military.

Military are not the police.

End of story.


21 posted on 04/28/2008 10:24:07 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Act Swiftly Awesome Pachyderm!)
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To: Lancer_N3502A

My first thought as well. If I weren’t headed out the door, I would have found a pic and posted it.


22 posted on 04/28/2008 10:26:41 AM PDT by radiohead (I stood up for Fred at the Iowa Caucus. Where were the rest of you so-called conservatives?)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Springfield's men in black are returning.

Another one of Mayor Quimby's bright ideas?

23 posted on 04/28/2008 10:28:30 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
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To: kiriath_jearim

Why not go all the way and choose brown shirts?


24 posted on 04/28/2008 10:30:21 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Agreed, however some of them didn’t get the memo.


25 posted on 04/28/2008 10:32:12 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Now they’re all going to be JBTs.

Don’t they know black isn’t good at night?


26 posted on 04/28/2008 10:34:06 AM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

That sounds positively fascist.


27 posted on 04/28/2008 10:36:42 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: livius

Exactly.


28 posted on 04/28/2008 10:36:52 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: kiriath_jearim

That sounds positively fascist.


29 posted on 04/28/2008 10:37:22 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: kiriath_jearim

That sounds positively fascist.


30 posted on 04/28/2008 10:40:03 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Farmer Dean
So we are supposed to fear the police?

Isn't that their motto? "To molest and unnerve."

31 posted on 04/28/2008 10:40:35 AM PDT by gundog (John McCain is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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To: rabscuttle385
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power the government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand

32 posted on 04/28/2008 10:44:17 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: processing please hold

***That sounds positively fascist.***

Deserving of a third bump.

Lol


33 posted on 04/28/2008 10:44:25 AM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: gundog

“To Punish And Enslave”

Found on Barricade from Transformers.


34 posted on 04/28/2008 10:45:34 AM PDT by wastedyears (The US Military is what goes Bump in the night.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Citizens who “fear” police is a very “bad” thing. What kind of idiot wants to achieve the goal of “fear”? What you will get is “fight or flight”, neither of which produces as much results as “trust and respect”. It gives you a 50/50 chance that it’ll be the cops getting hurt in the end.


35 posted on 04/28/2008 10:46:00 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: 6SJ7

Post of the day!


36 posted on 04/28/2008 10:46:56 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Sounds like they are trying to make up for some other inadequacy.


37 posted on 04/28/2008 10:51:35 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Death’s Head Devices on the caps? Siegrunes on the lapels?


38 posted on 04/28/2008 10:54:37 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: kiriath_jearim

That sounds positively fascist.


39 posted on 04/28/2008 10:54:54 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: School of Rational Thought
That's Ernst Rohm on the far left...


40 posted on 04/28/2008 10:55:57 AM PDT by johnny7
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