Mike_Yates
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Is it appropriate to use a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team to serve arrest warrants for non-violent misdemeanor offenses? Some of these violent, militarized police raids have resulted in people being shot after mistaking the officers involved for armed intruders and brandishing a weapon. Sometimes SWAT teams have raided the wrong house resulting in people and pets being shot, sometimes in front of young children.
There are hundreds of these such raids that occur on a daily basis. Most of which are to serve arrest warrants for simple misdemeanor offenses, such as marijuana possession.
The excessive and unnecessary use of SWAT raids has led me to believe that there may be dark and sinister ulterior political motives behind them. Civilian law enforcement is being federalized and militarized at a frightening pace. Some small town police departments in very low-crime areas are better equipped with military weapons and equipment than the US heavy infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of them even have tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Courtesy of the federal government, police throughout the country are also being trained in military combat regiments, and are being told and conditioned that the public is not something that they protect, but rather an enemy that needs to be suppressed and dealt with. Your average peace officer has gone from looking like a noble public servant, to a combat-hardened soldier headed off to war in Baghdad.
Do they absolutely have to apprehend criminals with the unnecessary use of violence (often for petty crimes) at their home or residence? Why not when they are entering or leaving their workplace? Or when they are walking out to get their mail? Or any environment where incident is much less likely to occur?
The appropriate use of militarized law enforcement include the following.
*A hostage situation
*Apprehending violent gang members
*Apprehending suspected murderers
*Apprehending escaped prison convicts and dangerous fugitives
*During a robbery or armed standoff
*Apprehending someone who is armed
There are hundreds of these such raids that occur on a daily basis. Most of which are to serve arrest warrants for simple misdemeanor offenses, such as marijuana possession.
The excessive and unnecessary use of SWAT raids has led me to believe that there may be dark and sinister ulterior political motives behind them. Civilian law enforcement is being federalized and militarized at a frightening pace. Some small town police departments in very low-crime areas are better equipped with military weapons and equipment than the US heavy infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of them even have tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.
Courtesy of the federal government, police throughout the country are also being trained in military combat regiments, and are being told and conditioned that the public is not something that they protect, but rather an enemy that needs to be suppressed and dealt with. Your average peace officer has gone from looking like a noble public servant, to a combat-hardened soldier headed off to war in Baghdad.
Do they absolutely have to apprehend criminals with the unnecessary use of violence (often for petty crimes) at their home or residence? Why not when they are entering or leaving their workplace? Or when they are walking out to get their mail? Or any environment where incident is much less likely to occur?
The appropriate use of militarized law enforcement include the following.
*A hostage situation
*Apprehending violent gang members
*Apprehending suspected murderers
*Apprehending escaped prison convicts and dangerous fugitives
*During a robbery or armed standoff
*Apprehending someone who is armed
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