When every Barney Fife Mayberry BFD sherrifs or police department is in competition for homeland security money you can bet every asset that they think they can force you to forfeit the badge wearing just doing my job bunch will come up with a reason they all need automatic weapons and an Intercontinental Ballistic Winniebago Crisis Command Center that would put any rock star tour bus to shame at an astronomical cost . After all when seconds count they will be there in minutes .
Yes I know generally response times are good but the militarization of local police and sheriffs departments are over the top and a real swat needs to be slapped upon the budget appropriations and requests . Besides like in most scenes where the swat equipment should be used the police are ordered to stand down and watch . Fergeuson , Baltimore , rock throwing fire starting animals looting , shoot those pieces of shit or stay the fuck home . A good start would probably be with the government official giving the order for that blue line to stand and be targets oh and fuck Al Sharpton too !
MN Steel
October 9, 2017 6:37 pm
This is fine…
Mike Murray
October 9, 2017 9:05 pm
Originally developed in 1966 by LAPD’s chief Daryl Gates, “SWAT” was supposed to stand for the “Special Weapons Attack Team”. Even in 1966 that wouldn’t fly, so it was changed to today’s version, “Special Weapons and Tactics”. An excellent account of SWAT history can be found here:
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
TampaRed
October 9, 2017 10:08 pm
I was at my mom’s earlier this evening and scanned her paper.
Plant City is a small town of just a few thousand about 20/25 miles east of Tampa.
Very little serious crime and anything major can easily be handled by the Hillsborough County(Tampa) Sheriff’s Dept,or even the Tampa PD if serious enough and the sheriff can’t do it.
So what did the paper say?
The town is buying an armored vehicle.
Huh?
Ditchner'
October 9, 2017 10:14 pm
Hey, Admin. What’s up with your RSS feed? Here’s how it looks on Netvibes for the past month using https://www.theburningplatform.com/feed/ as shown on the right column of your site.
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Jc
October 10, 2017 5:46 am
The first photo is the St Ann Mo PD. I grew up there in the 1970s and 80s. Back then it was a middle class white suburb next to the airport. Most people worked the assembly line at the nearby Ford plant. I didn’t even know we had a SWAT Team. I guess being just across I-70 from Ferguson we needed it. It’s so bad now my sis-in-law who’s a principal of a school there told me they had to install washers and dryers because the kids show up absolutely filthy. I never plan to return.
Two, if by sea. Three if from within, thee.
October 10, 2017 1:57 pm
Arent we all so much safer for it? pfft
MrLiberty
October 10, 2017 2:07 pm
Governments steal, lie, and kill people with impunity….that is what they do.
Diogenes
October 10, 2017 3:04 pm
Yeah these guys are so tough we they are busting a guy wearing a wifebeater T-shirt sitting on his couch with some drugs, But let somone start shooting back and they run for the hills.
When every Barney Fife Mayberry BFD sherrifs or police department is in competition for homeland security money you can bet every asset that they think they can force you to forfeit the badge wearing just doing my job bunch will come up with a reason they all need automatic weapons and an Intercontinental Ballistic Winniebago Crisis Command Center that would put any rock star tour bus to shame at an astronomical cost . After all when seconds count they will be there in minutes .
Yes I know generally response times are good but the militarization of local police and sheriffs departments are over the top and a real swat needs to be slapped upon the budget appropriations and requests . Besides like in most scenes where the swat equipment should be used the police are ordered to stand down and watch . Fergeuson , Baltimore , rock throwing fire starting animals looting , shoot those pieces of shit or stay the fuck home . A good start would probably be with the government official giving the order for that blue line to stand and be targets oh and fuck Al Sharpton too !
This is fine…
Originally developed in 1966 by LAPD’s chief Daryl Gates, “SWAT” was supposed to stand for the “Special Weapons Attack Team”. Even in 1966 that wouldn’t fly, so it was changed to today’s version, “Special Weapons and Tactics”. An excellent account of SWAT history can be found here:
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
I was at my mom’s earlier this evening and scanned her paper.
Plant City is a small town of just a few thousand about 20/25 miles east of Tampa.
Very little serious crime and anything major can easily be handled by the Hillsborough County(Tampa) Sheriff’s Dept,or even the Tampa PD if serious enough and the sheriff can’t do it.
So what did the paper say?
The town is buying an armored vehicle.
Huh?
Hey, Admin. What’s up with your RSS feed? Here’s how it looks on Netvibes for the past month using https://www.theburningplatform.com/feed/ as shown on the right column of your site.
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The first photo is the St Ann Mo PD. I grew up there in the 1970s and 80s. Back then it was a middle class white suburb next to the airport. Most people worked the assembly line at the nearby Ford plant. I didn’t even know we had a SWAT Team. I guess being just across I-70 from Ferguson we needed it. It’s so bad now my sis-in-law who’s a principal of a school there told me they had to install washers and dryers because the kids show up absolutely filthy. I never plan to return.
Arent we all so much safer for it? pfft
Governments steal, lie, and kill people with impunity….that is what they do.
Yeah these guys are so tough we they are busting a guy wearing a wifebeater T-shirt sitting on his couch with some drugs, But let somone start shooting back and they run for the hills.