Search results for: “SWAT Team”

This is fanciful. I wonder if it can be translated to reality? Attack On A SWAT Team I also liked –> Trends in domestic intelligence I saw the links on a report on the government’s desire for a backdoor for all encrypted communications. That backdoor would be easy to get around. There is lots of…

Good question. That and more in a piece titled “Why Have Police In America Turned Into Such Ruthless Thugs?” It’s a very worrisome question I have struggled to understand, because when I was a kid, cops were cops, and many people saw them as friends of the law-abiding. No more: Once upon a time, the…

As if more evidence were needed that the public school system is dysfunctional beyond belief, I read that two school boys were suspended for pretending pencils were guns: Media outlets report the 7-year-old boys were suspended for two days for a violation of the Suffolk school system’s zero-tolerance policy on weapons. They were playing with…

California SWAT teams are collecting guns from any home that houses a person with mental issues. And who did the SWAT teams originally practice on for decades? Dopers. You can’t say I didn’t warn you. Well it looks pretty reasonable for now. If you or some one in your house has had a mental problem…

Supposedly today is a day when bloggers of the correct persuasion are supposed to write only about the intimidation of other bloggers by a certain Brett Kimberlin. So here is my contribution: SWAT Teams. They are not just for dopers anymore. Patrick Frey, one of the bloggers attacked by the appearance of a SWAT team…

Here’s a tactic I hadn’t heard about before but which doesn’t surprise me. SWATting is a particularly dangerous hoax in which a caller, generally a computer hacker, calls a police department to report a shooting at the home of his enemy. The caller will place this call to the police department’s business line, using Skype…

I am amused at my my Right Wing Brethren decrying the militarization of the police. And yet the Right in America fully supports Drug Prohibition. The main use of these militarized police. It makes ya wonder. I’m trying to figure out if I should laugh or cry.

I’m back from Radley Balko’s tour-de-force presentation about brutal SWAT Team raids (yes, they are inherently brutal), and the systematized militarization of police in America. This was a large crowd of twenty-somethingish law students, and Balko began with this horrific video showing the police shooting a dog whose only crime was being owned by a…

While I probably should have been shocked by this news report from the front lines in the War on Foods and Drugs, nothing shocks me anymore.  Nor should it surprise anyone that pushers are recruiting young children to sell their unhealthy products on streetcorners, without permits: VILLA RICA, GA — It sounds like a bad…

I keep reading that pit bulls are the “number one dog of choice for drug dealers.” While the line sounds as if it had been scripted for Hollywood or MSM consumption, what really shocked me was to see it echoed by the Humane Society of the United States. When inflammatory code language like that is…

I’m going to present a number of excerpts from the following article. You should read the whole thing. Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home This is a description of the SWAT raid. In April 2012, a Kansas SWAT team raided the home…

Until a few days ago (when my computer was having some downtime and I was blogging erratically), I had never heard of Brett Kimberlin. (Just what he and the powers that be at Wikipedia want.) I have now read more about him than I care to read, and not only do I have a creepy…

In a recent Human Events piece — “The Softer Side of SWAT,” Brett Winterble complains about a plan to admit more females onto SWAT teams on the theory that male SWAT members “under-emphasize negotiating skills, patience, empathy and flexibility while over-emphasizing physical prowess and tactical acumen.” …isn’t the whole point of a SWAT team to…

There is too much of this kind of stuff going on: A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house. “He took out his shotgun and he said…

I don’t know how many readers remember the history of SWAT Teams, but I can remember when they started. “SWAT” is an acronym for “Special Weapons And Tactics.” They are to police as Special Forces are to regular army, and they were formed in response to the various urban insurrections and guerrilla movements of the…

Don’t mind the intro. The video is mostly Tucker Carlson asking questions. ( About 5 1/2 minutes ) Update: 26 October 2017 1503z A few more oddities are showing up. Yesterday it was reported that Paddock’s Laptop Hard Drive Missing. Today we learn Search For “SWAT Team Tactics” Found On Las Vegas Shooter’s Computer. Curious.

Apparently. According to HRC, there exists a “sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters”: “I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families [and] all who serve with them,” Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, wrote in a message on Twitter. Her likely Republican opponent, Donald J.…

That’s how a drag queen characterized the mayhem in Orlando’s Pulse club. One bullet fired by a customer could have saved dozens of lives, yet despite Florida’s relatively liberal gun laws, no one in the place was armed. This would not have happened in Israel. Here in the United States (and to an even greater…

Police violence. Nowadays, nearly everybody is talking about it. Over the years, I’ve kvetched about SWAT team raids, the War on Drugs, Homeland Security, militarization of law enforcement, etc., etc. more times than I care to imagine. In the latest national meme, liberals are doing everything they can to conflate police violence with racism. Nice…

While it might surprise some readers, I do not have a problem with SWAT Teams per se. In fact, what happened in Paris yesterday is a perfect example of what a good, properly trained and equipped SWAT Team can do in an appropriate situation. Those sorts of terrorist actions are precisely what SWAT Teams were…