Mike_Yates
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Is giving police advanced military combat training and arming them with military weapons, armor, and vehicles absolutely necessary?
What would possibly happen where they would actually need to use weapons and vehicles which were meant to be used in combat/war?
Other than during armed standoffs, hostage situations, robberies in progress, apprehending dangerous fugitives, armed criminals, gang members and members of organized crime, escaped prison convicts etc... is it really necessary to use this kind of force to serve arrest warrants for simple, nonviolent misdemeanor offenses?
Horrendous cases of police brutality and excessive force have skyrocketed after the Department of Homeland Security began it's extensive programs to militarize and train police for combat. Pregnant women being tazed and 80 y/o grandmothers being violently body-slammed are just a few examples of this kind of ridiculous overreach. Police are also being trained by DHS/the federal government that the public is not something that they protect, but rather an enemy which needs to be suppressed and dealt with.
Hundreds of botched SWAT team raids have resulted in injuries and deaths after the wrong house was raided and the tenant(s) there thought that someone was breaking in and went for gun.
Defense contractors have made tens of billions of dollars by selling hardcore military weapons and armor to police departments. So perhaps this is more about profit/greed than it is about fighting and stopping crime. Also, peaceful and nonviolent protestors have been viciously assaulted and hospitalized by paramilitary police in an apparent act of political intimidation and repression by what is quickly becoming a totalitarian state.
Is giving police advanced military combat training and arming them with military weapons, armor, and vehicles absolutely necessary?
What would possibly happen where they would actually need to use weapons and vehicles which were meant to be used in combat/war?
Other than during armed standoffs, hostage situations, robberies in progress, apprehending dangerous fugitives, armed criminals, gang members and members of organized crime, escaped prison convicts etc... is it really necessary to use this kind of force to serve arrest warrants for simple, nonviolent misdemeanor offenses?
Horrendous cases of police brutality and excessive force have skyrocketed after the Department of Homeland Security began it's extensive programs to militarize and train police for combat. Pregnant women being tazed and 80 y/o grandmothers being violently body-slammed are just a few examples of this kind of ridiculous overreach. Police are also being trained by DHS/the federal government that the public is not something that they protect, but rather an enemy which needs to be suppressed and dealt with.
Hundreds of botched SWAT team raids have resulted in injuries and deaths after the wrong house was raided and the tenant(s) there thought that someone was breaking in and went for gun.
Defense contractors have made tens of billions of dollars by selling hardcore military weapons and armor to police departments. So perhaps this is more about profit/greed than it is about fighting and stopping crime. Also, peaceful and nonviolent protestors have been viciously assaulted and hospitalized by paramilitary police in an apparent act of political intimidation and repression by what is quickly becoming a totalitarian state.
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