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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: Lancer_N3502A

Is that the insignia that the

Secular Socialists

will be wearing when they decide it’s safe to be open about their agenda?


41 posted on 04/28/2008 10:58:23 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: johnny7

They required to wear hats a size too small for their heads?


42 posted on 04/28/2008 10:59:16 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: kiriath_jearim
When the going gets tough, REAL men go for fashion. Add some white pancake makeup and heavy black eyeliner...very Goth.
43 posted on 04/28/2008 11:24:50 AM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: kiriath_jearim

44 posted on 04/28/2008 11:57:01 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: wastedyears

Oh my. I only hit the post button once. Talk about the hiccup from h3ll.


45 posted on 04/28/2008 12:03:33 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

Might want to check the sear pin in that mouse....


46 posted on 04/28/2008 12:08:54 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Does a laser mouse have a sear pin?


47 posted on 04/28/2008 12:37:08 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

Or should that be lazer?


48 posted on 04/28/2008 12:39:22 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: kiriath_jearim

Would it be OK then to call them stormtroopers?


49 posted on 04/28/2008 12:47:55 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
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.

Huh SpringSheild didn't have black uniforms, and they were the Springfield LEOs able to close down Fat Touny's operation.

50 posted on 04/28/2008 6:42:21 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing.)
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To: Sax

I have that DVD. Totally cool flick.


51 posted on 04/28/2008 8:23:09 PM PDT by ASOC (Training Storungen werden auf Papier notiert. Taktische Storungen werden im Stein geatzt. Gen Rommel)
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To: kiriath_jearim

And here I thought the police we supposed to be our friend.


52 posted on 04/28/2008 8:26:28 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I've done here today doesn't force you to have a negative opinion of me....)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

When I was a kid I used to think that was so hokey. Now I’d like to have that time back again.


53 posted on 04/28/2008 8:31:39 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I've done here today doesn't force you to have a negative opinion of me....)
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To: NonValueAdded

Dress a man like a Stormtrooper and pretty soon he’ll get with the program.


54 posted on 04/28/2008 8:40:24 PM PDT by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat)
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To: kiriath_jearim

55 posted on 04/28/2008 11:34:13 PM PDT by Thunder90
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