Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on January 24th, 2007 10:33 am by HL
Here is a special report from that conservative think tank The Cato Institute. The author must have been the victim of a botched Police raid.
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
The Cato Institute
Excerpt
Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.
These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers.
H.L.s Take
One of the big benefits of 9/11 for the police is that for some reason they think they can do whatever they want to whoever they want and they will always get away with it (of course they are right, just about every time a cop is put on trial for murder, or using excessive force, they walk away clean no matter how bad the evidence against them. They act as if they think they are rooting out terrorism and “evil doers” when all they are doing is busting people for normal every day domestic crime. Of course they screw up and hit the wrong house, and kill the wrong people more often then not. Most cops are not exactly geniuses. Thats why they had to take a job where they get shot at.
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