Most of these SWAT teams were set up without the taxpayers noticing. Some police chief decides that they need a SWAT team and that the next town/city over in the next county has one, so we all know what happens, right?
The police chief starts having penis envy of the next town over, and next thing you know, the taxpayers wake up one day to discover they have a SWAT team. It isn’t as tho this sort of thing goes on the ballot, you know. It’s all done administratively within the PD.
It isn’t as tho this sort of thing goes on the ballot, you know. It’s all done administratively within the PD.
I believe most of it is done with federal funding.
Perhaps someone with experience with this can say, but I know there are federal dollars available for lots of local police gear.
I don’t care if it never got a vote by the taxpayers. Two things need to have the foundations knocked out from under them: taxpayer apathy and this mindless “support law enforcement” mentality by the general public. Maybe when their beloved pets with badges start costing them enough in tax increases where it takes food off of the table, things will change. You sure as hell will never get those animals held individually accountable with those two things I mentioned above still in place.