I agree. The police and their zealotry to conduct these brutish raids - apparently with the goal of terrorizing people and killing pets - does damned little to restrain the illegal drug trade. It does however continue to qualify the jackboots participating in medals, commendations and Federal grants.
Since it was the police who brought the drugs to the suburb, and personally delivered them to the mayor's house without his knowledge, the Chief's statememt is technically accurate.
Exactly.
If the police had simply showed up with a proper warrant instead of playing “special forces”, everyone would have been fine, and their dogs would still be alive. In addition they would have still gotten the perps.
There is simply NO excuse for what happened.
The only reason this story is getting any notice is because it was the Mayor. This happens to many other people who are sacrificed by the prosecutors rather than the DA admitting they were wrong.
Not really a comment on the subject matter, but if they are married, shouldn't her last name be "Calvo"
Who names their child Cheye and Trinity?
Is the name "Cheye" a play on name "Che"
Their parents must be a set of long hair aging hippies
“innocent victims of drug traffickers”
LOL - They are victims of an out of control militarized police force. This crap has expanded throughout the country and these attacks and victimization of the people police are supposed to supposedly “protect and serve” are happening daily nationwide. We only hear about this one because of the mayor. We hear a bit about the ones where the wrong house was victimized, and the offenders on MY freakin payroll get MEDALS for it.
Stop the militarization of our police forces!
Yep, and when the mayor is finally done with him and the others responsible, he’ll regret it even more I’ll wager.
It seems to me that these so called police units have gotten more than out of control.
Why in the name of all that is sacred to America do we need overly armed men in black ski masks breaking into citizens homes with shoot first orders.
These units are openly violating the constitution.
Ever since the RICO laws were enacted many law enforcement officials see these laws as ways to equip their departments with car's and equipment they can not afford.
It is time to repeal the RICO laws and the sooner the better.
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No more No Knock Raids on citizens homes. No more dark suited ninja's either. No more unmarked car routine traffic stops is another. Except for actual undercover work all law enforcement officers while on duty making contact with the public should be in a uniform with badge in plain sight. Is that asking too much?
I support law enforcement in general but many police chiefs are getting way out of hand and crossing the line between actual police work and are focusing on controlling citizens lives. They need to be stopped trying to make themselves out as being our benevolent overlords.
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Thread hijaxing. 0_o
Cpl. Stephen Pacheco, a county police spokesman, said the agency has begun a review of the incident that is common in cases where force is used by police, “to make sure everything was done correctly.”
Just amazing, isn’t it? They’re still operating from the standpoint that what they did was correct. Their own review is merely to backup that claim.
A lot of people claim the war on drugs is a collosal failure. I disagree. If the purpose was actually to put more power and control over the populace into the hands of government, it was a smashing success.
It’s win-win for the police. They get power and control over the very lives of anyone they target, and get to play Rambo at the same time.
I don't see how anything was done correctly.
The Sheriff’s office did this. PG Police are off the hook this time ~ a rare event Fur Shur.
can you say OOPS!?
At least there was a warrant presumably signed by a judge. If that is the case and it was done properly there can be no charges filed against the officers, But I wouldn’t expect much for their careers.
Had it been one of the little people whose home was broken into and whose dogs were killed, the only place we would read about it would be FR. But it happens a lot and once is too often.