Posted on 09/28/2006 5:26:29 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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A guy I used to shoot with was the entry man on a tactical team, and he carried an H&K MP5 submachine gun. Others on the team carried shotguns and CAR-15s. I'm not sure about the CAR-15s (they could have been semi-auto only), but I know for a fact that the MP5 was capable of both 3 shot burst and full auto.
They regularly "served warrants" in the "no-knock" style.
Mark
That's a very bad start. They are not. By nature, that's biological mind you, they are intractably vicious attackers, that mount their attacks with very little, or no provocation.
"That being said, it is SOP for the cops to kill the dog not because of the threat or potential thereof to the police. The reason they kill the dog is to get maximum shock affect on the family whose home they are invading. "
I don't believe that's generally true whatsoever.
"No knock raids are an abomination to our Constitutional freedoms."
That's besides the point. It's true though.
Busted in the door, killed the dog, traumatized the kids, for something equal to a parking ticket...
Whatever would AMI do for stories?
Ah, how very statist of you.
Hildy, Pit Bulls are no more aggressive than their owners allow them to be. It is the same with any dog of any breed. The trouble is that pit bulls are breed to be physically imposing creatures, and when they are trained to be aggressive they do so with all of that physical ability behind them. You can train a chijuajua to be equally aggressive, yet they will be much less dangerous for obvious reasons.
Lurker, try to be nice won't you. I mean we are all adults here aren't we? If you're not, I appologize, continue being childish.
The reason you don't believe in that sort of "fairy tale" is because you don't hear about those dogs in the news. For instance, you'd think that you're taking your life in your hands every time you get into a car, since all you hear about on the news are traffic accidents.
I know of 2 pit bulls (real ones, American Staffordshire Terriers) who are wonderful pets (well one still is, the other was killed by a car. In both cases, they're well trained, and have terrific dispositions. Maybe part of it is that they were purchased through reputable breeders. The surviving dog would probably show a burgler around the house, pointing out the valuables, all for a scratch behind the ears. BTW, that house has the one dog and three cats. The dog plays with 2 of the cats, and is terrified of the third cat.
Mark
So if you have 600 dollars worth of drugs, then the police can raid your home?
And how do the cops determine how much you have?
Observe this. How fast over the speed limit should the police issue tickets? Should they issue a ticket at 1 mph over the limit or 10 miles over the limit. after all who knows how fast they may go if they arent stopped.
Priorities need to be established.
These police broke down the door, at 6 am---they always strike early in the morning before their culprit is fully aroused.--They may have shouted Police at the top of their lungs and hit the door. They handcuffed juveniles and killed a dog and made a lot of people angry. they immediately turned this whole block against the police.
$200 bucks for a door another $200 for the dog,$1.50 for the bullet, salaries for the cops $2,000 several patrol cars taken from other duties, and bad publicity all for 60 bucks. Whoever planned this raid should be sent to the boonies working radar for the next year.
Yes, that would be nice. Probably not gonna happen, tho.
What if you just don't deal drugs out of your house? That is against the law, correct?
Yep, let's blame the cops for doing their jobs not the criminal. Did I accidentally log onto DU?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Duly observed. So you are saying that a certain amount of illegal drugs should just be overlooked, right?
I would ask you how the police should know, beforehand, what amount of drugs are present?
"Think" is the key word there.
If the dog attacked the police, then it was doing it's job. Dogs are supposed to attack intruders kicking in your door.
Hey! You stole my question from post 90 ;)
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