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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
The Cato Institute ^
| July 16, 2006
| Radley Balko
Posted on 07/18/2006 2:00:20 PM PDT by rbalko
Paper on America's love affair with the SWAT team and "dynamic entry" raids.
See scary accompanying map of botched no-knocks and other SWAT-style raids.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: addiction; banglist; cats; donutwatch; drugskilledbelushi; drugwar; govwatch; jackbbootedthugs; leo; leroyknowshisrights; noknock; paramilitary; raids; selldopeanddie; stormtroopers; swat; wodlist
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:00:22 PM PDT
by
rbalko
To: rbalko
2
posted on
07/18/2006 2:05:28 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: rbalko
The guy with the mullet and his band of ex-cons makes for good TV. LOL
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:06:16 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: rbalko
Most arrests are now assaults... Face on the pavement, knee in the back...
Andy Taylor don't live here no more.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:06:29 PM PDT
by
Lexington Green
(Peace Through Victory)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; wku man; SLB; ...
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:07:45 PM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: rbalko
It's a bit ridiculous when the cops take down a building like SEAL Team Six on a tip that there's a bag of pot inside. Also, these "no-knock" raids are going to result in a lot of cops dying. If somebody kicks my door in without first announcing they're a cop, I'm going to start shooting.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:11:05 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: rbalko
Just obey your masters and it's unlikely you'll be killed and/or have everything trashed. If you end up in one of the unlikely situations, know that you were abused, or killed for a good cause.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:13:07 PM PDT
by
spunkets
To: lesser_satan
The rise in these raids is probably the DIRECT result of allowing local PDs to used "siezed" assets as a funding source.
To: rbalko
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:14:54 PM PDT
by
Shimmer128
(I see dumb people, they're everywhere. They don't even know they're dumb.)
To: rbalko
*goes back to digging tunnel in master closet* ;-)
To: spunkets
If you end up in one of the unlikely situations, know that you were abused, or killed for a good cause.Of course, it's for the children.
11
posted on
07/18/2006 2:24:39 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: rbalko
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:30:04 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Delicacy, precision, force)
To: lesser_satan
If somebody kicks my door in without first announcing they're a cop, I'm going to start shooting.
As I have posted before, there are four trends that are beginning to collide:
a) the "Castle Doctrine", which allows homeowners to shoot people who bust into their homes without fear of later prosecution
b) the increase of no-knock dynamic entry SWAT served warrants, where the SWAT team enters un-announced
c) by treating such entries as "every day events", mistakes are increasing, resulting in SWAT teams invading the wrong house; and
d) the increase in the press coverage of criminal gangs that perform home invasions claiming to be police
Without the castle doctrine, homeowners hesitate and get shot by SWAT, or get shot by home invaders.
With the castle doctrine, homeowners shoot a home invader or two before they decide to leave, and/or shoot a SWATtie before they get shot themselves and/or get prosecuted for shooting at police (" ... of course we announced that we were police ...").
Until a SWAT team leader goes to Jail for "criminally negligent homicide" for invading the wrong house and shooting an innocent homeowner (i.e., he should have known that lethal force might result in an innocent death unless he triple checked the address), nothing will change.
To: ElkGroveDan
SWAT HAND SIGNALS
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:31:01 PM PDT
by
DCBryan1
( HeadOFF Apply directly to the neck! HeadOFF Apply directly to the neck !(Avail. only from Muslims))
To: Lexington Green
Unfortunately you are right..
15
posted on
07/18/2006 2:37:08 PM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: rbalko
This thread has been open for 40 minutes, yet the apologists for the thugs in black have yet to respond. The usual suspects must be asleep.
To: sgtbono2002
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:54:19 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
To: DCBryan1
missing only one picture were they are all huddled together ,so they can have the courage to go in the house.
most of the cops around here are scared of thier own shadows.
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:55:48 PM PDT
by
righthand man
(WE'RE SOUTHERN AND PROUD OF IT)
To: rbalko
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:58:55 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(You can't qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it-Sherman)
To: rbalko
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posted on
07/18/2006 2:58:57 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(You can't qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it-Sherman)
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