Posted on 06/23/2013 5:16:50 AM PDT by marktwain
The following article gives some flavor of the events going back in time.
Mr. Redneck......First time I’ve seen that “well drilled” in years. That’s exactly what it means.
good one!
I agree. How many times have they busted in and killed anyone in the house they “percieve as a threat” and their dogs? Unless it is known that someone in the house is in immediate danger, there is no good reason for it.
In it is the real reason for the no-knock raid:
In March of 2006, Quinn filed a complaint in the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas suing DA John Roach, Sr., several individuals in the District Attorney’s Office and the McKinney Police Department (as individuals and in their official capacities). His suit claimed that the county and McKinney denied him his constitutional rights. In his complaint, Quinn wrote, “This case tells a story of deception, immorality, greed, incompetence, and pain that is difficult to believe could actually happen in 21th century America under the watchful eyes of supposedly-well-trained public servants. But it did.”
Five months after Quinn sued the police and DA, the McKinney police smashed his door down, shot him and charged him with 2 counts of assault that could lock him up for life.
There are a few details beyond the excerpt, yes.
Just about says it all right there. Is it any wonder that people are not marrying today?
During the 1930’s in Germany law enforcement members helped push the NAZI’s and Adolf Hitler in to power, those here who think the police will be on the people’s side should understand this term, “Police State”.
“When they outlaw guns, ONLY THE POLICE will have guns.” Stockpirate
When we see a regular “shuffling” of law enforcement officers to work in other jurisdictions (to prevent local retaliation), then we’ll know that the Police State is fully in effect. That practice won’t be legal, but we’ve already seen it exercised in the guise of emergency response “volunteers”.
“When we see a regular “shuffling” of law enforcement officers to work in other jurisdictions (to prevent local retaliation), then we’ll know that the Police State is fully in effect. That practice won’t be legal, but we’ve already seen it exercised in the guise of emergency response “volunteers”.”
Already happening a lot of places. We are a “contract town.” That means that our local PD is actually run by the County Sheriff. The “police chief” is usually a captain in Sheriff’s Office. One of them was a female recruited from the County Jail ( she was a disaster). But our officers too are “rotated” from the town PD back to the SO and the reverse. So much for “community policing,” and you get “officers” who have been policing high-crime areas in other parts of the county coming here to “practice” what they have “learned.”
No, it's you. If you had been paying even the tiniest bit of attention, you would know that there have been quite literally many tens of thousands of SWAT raids (and that figure is probably low) over the last few decades, and that many thousands of those were for the wrong house, wrong perp, wrong reason, or because the LEOs wanted something that the alleged perp had (car, land, money, whatever).
See Radley Balko's book, Overkill, published by the Cato Institute.
It's fun to dress up like a Ninja, bust down somebody's front and back doors, throw in a couple of flash-bangs (which can be deadly), rush in with (real) assault rifles, shoot the dogs, and terrorize the children and old ladies. WHEW! What an adrenaline rush!
And all of this gets done with really cool equipment supplied by the federal government. Plus, if you find any drugs, you get to seize and keep the house, cars, money, and whatever else you covet, and you don't even have to charge anyone with anything. Bypasses all that "beyond a reasonable doubt" bullsh!t.
Okay—looks like I’ve been told—LOL!
Of course most of the points you make are perfectly valid.
Cops run the gamut from the very good to the very bad and everywhere in between. The trend, however, seems to be in the wrong direction, and they close ranks and cover for their own, even when the cop is in the wrong.
Asset forfeiture laws must be eliminated, or at least vastly altered.
Drug laws must be eased, too. The "cure" has become worse than the "disease." When I saw the video of a female cop putting her hand down the front and back of a woman's and her niece's pants to do a "cavity search" at the end of an off ramp of a Texas freeway, all because the male cop that did the initial traffic stop claimed he smelled marijuana, that was the last straw for me regarding the "War on Drugs.".
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