S.W.A.T team in my front yard

[Lisa Denton]

There I was, mindin my own business and not botherin nobody. I was surfing through some pics when my dog went crazy.

Scooter is a fearless guard dog, but he sometimes thinks the mailman and the kittycat next door are crazed psychopathic burglars. He even went nuts one time and there was burglars nextdoor, this was one of them times, he was sayin "Mayday, Mayday, 911, Fireman-save my child, Code Blue!!!"

So I grabbed my pistol and peeked out the bedroom window, sure enough, there was a burglar out there, sneakin around, doin sneaky stuff, not five feet away from me!!!!

I was calculating field of fire and stuff quickly, because while it was dark and this burglar was wearing dark clothing, I could see that he had an automatic rifle (WTF) and was wearing a goofy looking helmet which I thought was very un-professional for a burglar to wear a helmet IMO.

Anyways, I wasn't gonna shoot but being ready to if need be. The house across the street is vacant but a round could go through and into the house behind that. Also this burglar obviously had some mental problems and I didn't want to shoot a nut.

Scooter is still going beserk, and I am about to turn around and call the cops when the burglar turns and looks right at me! And he holds his finger up to his mouth as if telling me to shush my dog.

What nerve! An armed crazy psycho burglar telling me to keep my dog quiet! I almost shot him for that, but when he turned back around I seen letters on the back of his jacket:

P ....... O ...... L ..... I ..... C ..... E

Ooooooooh.

I like that cops show, car chases and stuff, but it comes on Sat nights at 7 and this is a weekday at 8 pm, also it ain't T. V. but my freakin front yard.

Then it went wacko cool!!!!!!!

A huge swat armored truck comes flying around the corner and halfway into the yard across the street and one house down. The burglar/swat-cop in my front yard goes running that way and cops is flying out of the truck and running that way from houses all over, they are all wearing flak-jackets and helmets and carrying assault rifles!!!!!

Fuckin cool!!!

I was running for the livingroom with the bigger window, I heard smashin glass and squeeling tires and screaming. I looked out and there is a cop car blocking the street sideways in front of my house and I could see the flashing lights of another one blocking the street on down. The swat team is runnin arould all over, one runs beside my house, and then comes pulling a guy back out front by his handcuffs. They marched guys out of the house across and down with thier hands in the air and made them lay down and handcuffed them.

I could see the house had busted out windows and shit, I guess I missed the best part but what I saw was great. They made them lay out there a long time while they was searching the house and then put them all in a paddy-wagon and hauled them off to the jailhouse.

God Bless the police!!!

I hope they stun-grenaded them and beat em all up while resisting arrest and shit.

Fuckin drug dealers in my neighborhood.

It was much better than prime time T.V.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Were you wearing your bunny slippers when you snuck outside with your gun?

 

[Lisa Denton]

Were you wearing your bunny slippers when you snuck outside with your gun?

I didn't go outside, it was OFFICIAL POLICE BUSINESS and how did you know I have bunny slippers, did I mention that before?

 

[The_Fool]

Which pistol were you carrying this time?

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Dealing drugs is not the worst thing that can happen in a place.

This is:

Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
by Radley Balko

Radley Balko is a policy analyst specializing in civil liberties issues and is the author of the Cato study, "Back Door to Prohibition: The New War on Social Drinking."

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. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.

This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476

This Week in Botched Police Raids

Radley Balko | May 15, 2007, 12:58pm

Another "isolated incident" in Hendersonville, North Carolina:

Sandra Braswell said the officers threw two smoke grenades into her house at 208 N. Oak St. around 1:30 a.m. Saturday while her 16-year-old grandson and six of his friends were having a party on the back porch.

She said the officers, with guns drawn, told the teenagers to get on the floor. When some of the teenagers tried to run, the officers forced them to the ground and pinned their hands behind their backs.

“They didn't show no warrant,” she said on Monday. “They didn’t have no warrant for this house. They made me lay in the floor, though. I couldn’t say nothing, with my hands up in the air and all these kids in here on the floor. One of the kids laying across form me, cop got a gun pointed to his head.”

Braswell said the officers made her and her 11-year-old granddaughter get on the floor in the living room. When her granddaughter tried to get up to find her 7-year-old sister, Braswell said an officer told her to get back down on the floor.

Braswell said they were forced to lie on the ground for 10 minutes before the officers got a call realizing their mistake.
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120201.html

 

[Lisa Denton]

Which pistol were you carrying this time?

I keep 9mm close and ready for home defense, plus Scooter is always armed to the teeth, so to speak.

 

[cloudy]

I suppose its a holdover from my pothead days, but I still can't stand cops.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Dealing drugs is not the worst thing that can happen in a place.

This is:

Maybe they will get out of jail and move to your neighborhood. There are two schools down the street. Children have to walk by there. Crazy nuts screaming in the middle of the night about gonna get thier guns and come back to get even. Junkies fighting in their front yard on weekends, wierdo's suddenly all up and down the street, houses being broken into.

These cops risked life and limb to protect me and my neighbors and the neighborhood children.

God Bless Them.

 

[AvoidingRealWork]

It was much better than prime time T.V.

Thank you for that, Lisa! The three of us here are laughing our heads off.

And I'm glad you're safe. God bless the police indeed.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I didn't go outside, it was OFFICIAL POLICE BUSINESS and how did you know I have bunny slippers, did I mention that before?



"So I grabbed my pistol and peeked out the bedroom window, sure enough, there was a burglar out there, sneakin around, doin sneaky stuff, not five feet away from me!!!!"

I read that as "sneaked" instead of peaked, my mistake.

Well, I remember something about a clown and bunny slippers but I might have been a little confused, I think I was blindfolded for a while.

I betcha that cop was a woman underneath that helmet. *nods* I betcha. Hot woman cop under body armor and a helmet. Uh huh.

 

[Lisa Denton]

I read that as "sneaked" instead of peaked, my mistake.

Well, I remember something about a clown and bunny slippers but I might have been a little confused, I think I was blindfolded for a while.

I betcha that cop was a woman underneath that helmet. *nods* I betcha. Hot woman cop under body armor and a helmet. Uh huh.

He, he.

I wanna read that story when you finish it, wait a minute .... this isn't a story but real life in the AH, eeeek!!!

Suggested story title:

"Sex, drugs, and automatic weapons set to rock and roll" A lesbian love story.

 

[The_Fool]

He, he.

I wanna read that story when you finish it, wait a minute .... this isn't a story but real life in the AH, eeeek!!!

Suggested story title:

"Sex, drugs, and automatic weapons set to rock and roll" A lesbian love story.

Reminds me of an old Lauren Hynde AV.

 

[Liar]

Sounds like the coppers need bigger text on their jackets.

 

[DesertPirate]

Reminds me of an old Lauren Hynde AV.

LMAO

 

[MagicaPractica]

He, he.

I wanna read that story when you finish it, wait a minute .... this isn't a story but real life in the AH, eeeek!!!

Suggested story title:

"Sex, drugs, and automatic weapons set to rock and roll" A lesbian love story.

Hmmmm... there are several slots left in the AH Fantasies series. But I'm afraid it's not quite my cup of tea so I'll have to pass.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Sounds like the coppers need bigger text on their jackets.

I woulda been able to see it if he wasn't standing beside my bedroom window, and I was confused why he was standing beside my bedroom window but lookin the other way.

I forgave him when the cops started marching out the drug-dealers with thier hands in the air.

 

[TE999]

He, he.

Suggested story title:

"Sex, drugs, and automatic weapons set to rock and roll" A lesbian love story.

Hey! That's the plot to a story I wrote but ain't posted yet.

There's mind readin' goin' on!

Get out of my head or I'll shoot!

 

[cantdog]

It is wicked annoying when a household of drug dealers moves in next door.

But the people who had the house before they got it had a rottweiler. They never chained it up outside, they sent it out the second story window onto the front porch roof. The animal paced around up there challenging everyone it could see to deadly combat.

I find the drug dealers noisy and I get tired of everyone stepping out onto the sidewalk to pace up and down and argue into their cell phones at high volume. Cars and houses in the block have been broken into. Taxis and dark cars with subwoofers pull up all hours of the night, and people pay visits for five minutes. But at least the rottweiler is gone, yannow?

Our police really do not seem to have figured out what is going on. But I'm cool with that, because I sometimes receive mail with their address clearly printed on it, delivered to my address, and I confidently expect similar accuracy from the cops.

These are the same cop guys who spreadeagled a friend of mine, screaming deep in the chest, handcuffed him, clubbed him (in that order) and hauled him off to county lockup. They charged him with simple assault, because, discovery revealed, he had "raised his stick in a threatening manner." They tried to offer Sam plea bargains, but his lawyer, same lawyer I use, just rubbed his hands together grinning.

"Oh, no. We won't be pleading guilty to anything," he told the ass't DA. "We're going to trial. We look forward to trial!"

They dropped the charges. Sam's blind. The threatening stick was white with a red tip.

They hated to drop the charges, though. Three months later, Laurie, 16, handed Sam her lit cigarette in a park by the stream.

"Hold this," she said. "I gotta tie this fuckin shoe."

"Yo."

She stoops and repairs the loose lacing, then takes the cig back from Sam.

Before he can say "you're welcome," the cop emerges from the bushes behind the bench Sam was sitting on. He tells Sam to freeze!

He handcuffed him, charging him with providing tobacco products to a minor. He said Sam wasn't going to wiggle out of this one! "We have the whole thing on video!" he crowed.

They'd followed the blind guy around for three fuckin months, man, with a video cam. Three fuckin months, but they finally got him.

Cops suck farts from dead chickens. JMO.

 

[TxRad]

Get out of my head or I'll shoot!

The bullet would bounce off, your head that is.

Our swat team is four cub scouts with BB guns led by the crossing guard from the jr high school.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Hey! That's the plot to a story I wrote but ain't posted yet.

There's mind readin' goin' on!

Get out of my head or I'll shoot!

Sounds like you need to write that last chapter with the mind-reading midget disco dancers.

 

[TE999]

The bullet would bounce off, your head that is.

Our swat team is four cub scouts with BB guns led by the crossing guard from the jr high school.

I'll just taser myself then! That should stop this EPP (Extrasensory Plot Piracy).

Sounds like our town's 'Protect and Serve' stalwarts.

Since when does it take 4 cops (and their cars) to give a speeding ticket to an 89 yo woman in a Buick?

 

[cantdog]

You got lucky, then, TxRad.

In recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public.

SWAT teams were once rare and used only for very dangerous situations, often involving hostages held by armed criminals. Today SWAT teams are deployed for routine police duties. In the US today, 75-80% of SWAT deployments are for warrant service.

Today 17,000 local police forces are equipped with such military equipment as Blackhawk helicopters, machine guns, grenade launchers, battering rams, explosives, chemical sprays, body armor, night vision, rappelling gear and armored vehicles. Some have tanks. In 1999, the New York Times reported that a retired police chief in New Haven, Connecticut, told the newspaper, "I was offered tanks, bazookas, anything I wanted."

In 1997, for example, police departments received 1.2 million pieces of military equipment.

With local police forces now armed beyond the standard of US heavy infantry, police forces have been retrained "to vaporize, not Mirandize," to use a phrase from Reagan administration defense official Lawrence Korb. This leaves the public at the mercy of brutal actions based on bad police information from paid informers.

 

[TxRad]

I'll just taser myself then! That should stop this EPP (Extrasensory Plot Piracy).

Sounds like our town's 'Protect and Serve' stalwarts.

Since when does it take 4 cops (and their cars) to give a speeding ticket to an 89 yo woman in a Buick?

Those high speed 15 mph chases are a bitch and get the adrenalin flowing like mad. Hers, not theirs.

 

[Lisa Denton]

Cops suck farts from dead chickens. JMO.

Come on Cant, all of them?

Who looks for the lost kids all night and runs towards the gunfire instead of away from it?

I've met plenty of the asshole cops with the big badge and bigger gun, the small mind and smaller penis, but there are some who care.

These guys were'nt sellin a lil pot, which all of us have smoked even those who didn't inhale.

I've seen girls going into that house to "work" for thier fix. None weighing more than 100 lbs and with that thousand yard stare. They used to be somebodies daughters. The people standing around outside had the neighbors keeping thier kids inside. I dunno if they were selling heroin or meth, or if they had a meth lab going in there, but it was bad, and getting worse.

I was scared.

The police came, they weren't afraid.

 

[TxRad]

You got lucky, then, TxRad.

Ya know, I normally leave stuff like this alone but between this post of yours and the one from Roxy I got to say my peace.

You guys bitch about the swat teams and pull up someones else's writing on it that basically says the police are using swat against innocent defenseless people. What friggin cave so you live in. Most drug dealer extremely well armed and the crack houses are fortified. Two that I know of have steel doors with bars over that and cross braced latches on the inside.

A drug dealer was carried out between two cops when one of the houses was busted. It took three more to carry all the weapons out. They had to use a battering ram on a bulldozer to knock in the front door. Regular cops aren't6 trained or eguiped to deal with such.

Yeah, accidents happen and addresses get crossed up. People get hurt. But how much damage is that poor drug dealer that the warrant is for doing. Get some common sense for Pete's sake. This ain't the seventies, it's not even the eighties or nineties. People shot cops and at cops now for the fun of it. There are gangs running the streets with AK's and assault rifles in broad daylight.

Fuck they confiscated an anti tank gun in Dallas not to long ago, from a street gang. We already have our own terrorist and have had so don't even go there.

Next time you see a crack house, drop a dime on it. Do us all a favor.

I'll get off my soap box now and wait for the irate rebuttals.