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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
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Posted on 01/27/2013 7:24:49 PM PST by chessplayer

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To: chessplayer
Even so, excessive force and disregard for the Bill of Rights have become epidemic in today’s world.

Paradoxically, the idea that police would protect the rights of the accused and thus avoid having cases thrown out was justification of said professionalization.

It is seldom that we recognize the subtle ways in which the protections the courts (via a communist ACLU) have yielded to the criminal class have induced the tyranny we see, all of said advocacy funded by the extremely wealthy American analogue to British royalty.

21 posted on 01/27/2013 9:47:20 PM PST by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: ThomasThomas

I believe the lines are already drawn. Those on our side are here amongst us, and in counties across the nation. Many sheriffs are in our ranks.


22 posted on 01/27/2013 10:01:20 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: CodeToad

Word.


23 posted on 01/27/2013 10:01:36 PM PST by Vigilantcitizen (Dave Mustaine for president.)
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To: ThomasThomas
Do we want them to be our allies or our foe?

We still have time to make a difference.

We don't have a say in that, it's a decision they all must make individually. Do they remain in the state of us vs. them, or will they recognize the real dangers this country faces, ie. NOT those of us that want to protect ourselves and loved ones, and that want to be left alone.

24 posted on 01/27/2013 10:11:07 PM PST by wastedyears (Obama and Democrats to Republicans: "LOL!")
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To: sarasmom
The county sheriff is the single most powerful political law enforcement entity in his shrievalty - even above federal marshals.

Historically, the sheriffs have the power to "deputize" private citizens in fighting crime and keeping law and order.

I think a powerful case could be made that the best return on investment in these times for our political efforts might be that expended in electing constitutional sheriffs. They are the leaders on the front line. If push comes to shove, this means...

25 posted on 01/27/2013 10:11:07 PM PST by Lexinom
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26 posted on 01/27/2013 10:16:39 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Theoria
That link didn't work.

It is available as a download here.

27 posted on 01/27/2013 10:20:01 PM PST by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: chessplayer
I've been trying to tell people this for years. When cops switched from six-shot .38 revolvers to 15-round 9mm Glocks I knew what was coming. Does anyone really think the ''War on Drugs'' is really about stopping the sale and use of drugs? It's about maintaining power. It's about empowering police to be para-militaries , nullifying the Constitution and filling up prisons.
28 posted on 01/27/2013 10:43:47 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa

We always hearing politicians saying we need more police. Really? I’m of the opinion that the police are part of the reason for the escalation of violence in the communities. It’s thought that the militarization of police took off beginning in the 80s. I wonder if violent crimes have also increased proportionately in the same time?


29 posted on 01/28/2013 12:55:23 AM PST by virgil
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To: Melas
The FBI has also posted on their website that people who quote the Constitution are rabid right-wing, and they have placed US on their Right-Wing list of people to watch, who may be subversive. Now, as to how many FBI agents, beside the head of the FBI, who do believe in and would support this crap is the question I am asking.
30 posted on 01/28/2013 12:59:08 AM PST by itssme
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To: Lexinom
So true. I am so proud as I read the Chicago Police Officer blogs and read the comments of officers who are against control, who do uphold the Constitution, who will not violate the oath they took to uphold and protect the Constitutin, our Liberty and Freedoms and Rights, nor would they violate the 2nd Amendment by taking away the guns of law-abiding citizens. They all hate rahm emanuel and obozo and what they have done to Chicago and this country. The old time Irish, vote Democrat cop has had his eyes opened and now understands that the party once known as the Democratic Party is now the Socialist Democratic Party of the USA. The cops hands are tied and they can't do their jobs properly in Chicago...rahm has his boot on their necks, the courts refuse to prosecute or pose a sentence that is meaningful, and the Police Supt. McCarthy refuses to allow the officers to do their jobs and arrest the thugs, because they supply obozo with the votes, and he supplies them with a green light to thug and ruin cities by their feral, violent, immoral behavior. The cops of Chicago are fed up with the left, and other than those who are socialist, will come out and support the citizens, and NOT the Socialist Democratic Pary in Washington.
31 posted on 01/28/2013 1:15:02 AM PST by itssme
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To: Ken522
“Have you ever been pulled over by one of these punks? Not the FBI - but local police punks that feel the need to totally dominate us serfs. It’s unbelievable!”

Yes I have and they are definitely punks. Are you from NJ? NJ is full of these assholes. The facinating thing about cops in NJ is the cops in Newark, Jersey City and the urban areas are tough but tend to be professional. It’s the punks in the suburbs who run around with attitude problems.

So glad I moved out of that shithole state. If I didn’t have family living there I would never go back for anything.

32 posted on 01/28/2013 2:29:11 AM PST by saneright
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To: saneright

“The facinating thing about cops in NJ is the cops in Newark, Jersey City and the urban areas are tough but tend to be professional. It’s the punks in the suburbs who run around with attitude problems.”

So true. Here in NJ we thinned their ranks with a property tax cap that cost thousands of cops their jobs, leaving middle-aged police forces (the last hired were the first laid off); those urban cops were hardest hit because they often worked in cities that were dependent on state/federal aid for their pay. The cities haven’t been safe in decades anyway, so I don’t think there will be much impact; because of the whole “racial profiling” nonsense, cops had let the worst thugs have their way anyway.

Right before we started shedding cops they published a figure for the number of cops earning over $100K in NJ; they lost most public support at that point.


33 posted on 01/28/2013 2:35:42 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: sarasmom

“They (for the most part) have already picked a “side”.
If they can’t keep USA law abiding citizens sufficiently cowed into submission, their next paycheck is in doubt. It won’t be the DOD that attempts to forcibly disarm the populace. It will be local “union” police forces.”

No doubt; t hey will do as they are ordered. Here in NJ we laid off thousands of them over the last few years; they weren’t effective anyway (they really weren’t allowed to do their jobs), and they cost a ton of money, so I have no complaints as they were let go. A lot of them are looking for opportunites in growing states rather than the dying northeast, because those days are over when they would just keep expanding while crushing the taxpayers. There simply aren’t enough companies and individuals to tax anymore; they bled them dry and chased them out, and what is left (the permanent urban underclass and illegal aliens) don’t pay taxes.


34 posted on 01/28/2013 2:49:39 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2
I've lived in the Northeast for the last six months for the first time in my life. I'm headed back to Texas in a few weeks.

It does seem dirty and dead here, with graffiti everywhere, sky-high prices and a sort of resigned moroseness. People seem cheerful about Obama's re-election, which I understand only in the context of sycophantic commitment to an ideal despite the falling and crumbling reality that surrounds it.

But there's little that's "sunny" or "optimistic" about the region.

35 posted on 01/28/2013 3:08:32 AM PST by Lexinom
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To: Melas

“it’s completely constitutional”

Never completely. Partly, maybe. There are only a spare few federal crimes listed in the Constitution. One of them, piracy, wouldn’t have anything to do with the FBI. Some handful of Washington’s powers could be seen as necessitating a force like it. But traditionally, and when I say that I mean according to how the Constitution is written rather than how our central government de facto operates, police powers are reserved for state and local authorities. JFK’s murder was a matter for Dallas police, which means as late as ‘63 there was no federal law against killing the freakin’ president.


36 posted on 01/28/2013 3:15:34 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: Lexinom
I've lived in the Northeast for the last six months for the first time in my life.

You have my deepest sympathies. The northeast is an immoral sewer...Red Hampshire just 'doubled down on depravity' by electing two of the most vile women imaginable to Congress and another as Governor. They join Senator Jeanne Shaheen as a true female 'axis of evil'.

37 posted on 01/28/2013 3:17:47 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Lexinom

I’ve lived here my whole life, and it certainly is deteriorating. I see nobody cheerful about Obama’s re-election (I noted before the election the absence of Obama stickers even in the ghettoes, whereas they were everywhere in 2008); even blacks I work with who voted for him did it as much as out hatred for whites as anything else. They are always lamenting how much worse things are; maybe they just believe it isn’t his fault. They reminisce about the cruises they used to take, they new cars they used to own, etc. (they were just making it into the middle class when things fell apart); they got a taste of a better life and now it is gone.

There is nothing sunny or optimistic here, and I feel there won’t be for years. We are bleeding our youngest talent, and importing illegals to simply keep schools open and housing afloat. Tell them in TX what to look out for (just kidding, apparently they already know).


38 posted on 01/28/2013 4:01:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Nationally, crime is down. Much less bad than the 70s or 90s I think.


39 posted on 01/28/2013 4:07:19 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: chessplayer

We need to end the image of police officers as Law Enforcement and return to the original intent: Peace Officers. The purpose of the police is to maintain the peace. Law enforcement can be done by a monkey.

They’re civilians and no better or smarter than any other civilians. We’re all in this together and the “professionalism” needs to be service oriented.

In Chicago our police motto is “to serve and protect”. Our fire motto is “we’re there when you need us”. The irony should be obvious.


40 posted on 01/28/2013 4:25:55 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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