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Rightwingconspirator8/25/2012 10:14:53 am PDT

re: #736 What Would Spalding Gray Do?

Every police force in the country seems to think it needs military-grade weapons, vehicles, and SWAT tactics to serve traffic warrants, but doesn’t train officers on how (and/or when) to use the shit without taking out half the people they’re supposedly protecting. There are no shades of grey between a civilian police officer and a soldier; there is a huge thick black line, but the police seem to want all the military toys with very little of the requisite training, and none of the accountability for when playtime goes bad.

President Bil Clinton thinned that black line with his “100,000 police officers” program. It was used to elevate the capabilities of PD’s not just add police. The military spec ops guys started cross training with PD’s. The country was gearing up for terror attacks and drug raids, needed or not. I remember articles at the time decrying the militarization of police capacities. Then we had the North Hollywood bank heist. Then 911. Then the Patriot act and Homeland security.


That (IMHO) is more how we got here than local PD”s motivating any of this. Agree? Disagree?