The Pentagon has donated hundreds of MRAP vehicles to police departments nationwide.
Posted on 06/28/2014 10:13:01 AM PDT by Perseverando
The Pentagon has donated hundreds of MRAP vehicles to police departments nationwide.
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Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly odd that at the exact moment when violent crime hit a 50-year low, the nation’s police departments began to gear up as if the country were expecting invasion — and, on occasion, to behave as if one were underway. The ACLU reported recently that SWAT teams in the United States conduct around 45,000 raids each year, only 7 percent of which have anything whatsoever to do with the hostage situations with which those teams were assembled to contend. Paramilitary operations, the ACLU concluded, are “happening in about 124 homes every day — or more likely every night” — and four in five of those are performed in order that authorities might “search homes, usually for drugs.” Such raids routinely involve “armored personnel carriers,” “military equipment like battering rams,” and “flashbang grenades.”
Were the military being used in such a manner, we would be rightly outraged. Why not here? Certainly this is not a legal matter. The principle of posse comitatus draws a valuable distinction between the national armed forces and parochial law enforcement, and one that all free people should greatly cherish. Still, it seems plain that the potential threat posed by a domestic standing army is not entirely blunted just because its units are controlled locally. To add the prefix “para” to a problem is not to make it go away, nor do legal distinctions change the nature of power. Over the past two decades, the federal government has happily sent weapons of war to local law enforcement, with nary a squeak from anyone involved with either political party. Are we comfortable with this?
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Montgomery county texas sheriffs office. Looks more like soldiers in Iraq.
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Watching the second Hunger Games movie while reading this, and it’s playing the part where the “peacekeepers” are brutalizing District 12.
I can honestly see the peacekeepers replaced by SWAT teams and doing the same thing
Moose have antlers?
Well.... they are very horny...
When I was growing up, there were a few old timers with earrings. They were old swabbies who had sailed the 7 seas, and wore that earring as a symbol of their travels. Part of the blued, screwed, and tattooed process I gathered.
Now if I see a man with an earring I immediately think druggie or fruit.
And Fedzilla is thinking they are their resources being staged near potential insurgents. Are country citizens being trained how to operate this equipment in a pinch? Not likely.
I’m thinking that if they need an MWRAP then I need an AT4, just for the sake of parity.
Just more targets of opportunity for when shooting war starts
Or neat toys for our side when TSHTF
Even with all this SWAT masturbatory implements it won’t he enough for local Barneys to hold off a well heeled response by patriot citizenry
Nor will all Barney’s take the side of tyranny push come to shove
WMD in the hands of govt forces....now that is a bigger threat in a shoorubf war
>b>Extremely well said!....bravo</b>
Somehow, I imagine the dog shootings, the elderly citizen shootings, etc would have received a much stronger responsenthe first time in the 1770s.
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BTTT
Thank you!
“Officer safety comes first”
Very informative. This absolutely represents a fundamental change in policing and a root cause of growing public disgust with law enforcement. Their mission is protect and serve the public, not their own axx.
The cost of law enforcement is taking an ever increasing huge portion of the community budgets for their generous compensation, benefits, pensions, early retirements, and immunity from prosecution.. It won’t be long before the public demands major cuts in policing if this trend continues. They want services that serve them, such as parks, infrastructure, and abuse.
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