Think about salaries for 1,000 Fed, State and local law enforcement people, weeks or months of planning. 50 houses raided. It must have cost at least a few million.

What did they get?
OK, bullet proof vest is certainly a good link to violent behavior.

Guns: maybe a sign of violence, but not necessarily, given the prevalence of guns in general

$136K. If you bust 50 houses and get $136K, that isnt even $3000 a house. Now, thats not the sort of money I carry around, but 3000 isnt like some major criminal operation.

So, we are looking at maybe a few bigger fish, but probably most of those caught had a few plants. Given that Florida has its fair share of violent crime, and used to be a gateway for more serious drugs, why are they spending a ton of taxpayer money to bust a bunch of pot smokers?

This is either grandstanding by the cops, or outright lying. I favor the latter. This is an exaggeration by people who have every reason to lie about it. And such a lie can only be told by people who are first of all dumb enough to believe it themselves.

We have the wrong people on the police forces across this country. When we get people who are interested in protecting the people rather than complementing their own macho style with aggressive tactics in pursuit of victimless crimes we’ll have a lot less crime and a lot more respect for the people behind the badges.

According to the 2001 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 31.7 percent of all American households have guns. Apparently, drug dealers are only about half as likely as the average american to have a gun in the home.

It only means that they were exercising their rights to do so and we should not assume hostile intent.