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So long as the thugs continue their reign of terror amongst the black and/or poor casualties won’t matter to those with the power to effect change. Sad fact.”

I live in Berwyn Heights, and I would like to point out that the mayor and his wife are white.

If there are no cameras, or cameras but no tape, then all police testimony becomes hearsay, and all physical evidence struck, since the police cannot prove that their actions are legal.

It’s time to remove the “good faith” exemption, because police have demonstrated that good faith doesn’t exist.

Wonder how it would work on reporting crimes in progress at the much less than random home phones of POLICE themselves???

In a large metropolitan jurisdiction, the SWAT team wouldn’t necessarily know that they were raiding a police officer’s home.

And, both sides being well-armed, a spectacular shoot-out could potentially ensue between the policeman who assumed he was being subjected to a violent home invasion, and the SWAT team assuming the armed perpetrator inside the home is the psycho described in the Prank Call.

Nearly perfect justice?

Could become a new national pastime.

And, regarding video-taping every SWAT team action: The police just don’t like that kind of evidence that there was NO Knock-and-Announce.

Or, that the household pets were actually NOT “engaging”.

Besides eschewing video evidence of SWAT raids, NY and D.C. police and other jurisdictions are already exploring ways to obtain CELL PHONE JAMMERS. Obviously, to jam those pesky cell phone CAMERAS from transmitting evidence of police misconduct or culpability, but under the Homeland Security pretext of disrupting a terrorist incident.

Unfortunately, nothing’s going to change. Every one of these things is an “isolated event” somewhere, and the dominant view of the average citizen is that most people caught up in these raids “must have done something to deserve it.”

If you’re a dog owner, and you can get through that story without tearing up, you’re tougher than I am. If you care about civil liberties, and you can get through that story without becoming nauseated and throwing your hands up in exasperation and submission, you’re better than I am.

After reading these stories every day for years, I’m not sure there’s anything worthwhile left we can do.

Thank you for that little joy-bomb.

I bet you enjoy telling kids that there is no Santa Claus. (So the kids don’t develop any unhealthy optimism, of course.)

;P

The only downside to the article was when Mayor Calvo was hoping a cop would come by and ticket the (unknown to him) undercover cops parked next to the hydrant. “That’s three violations right there,” he recalled thinking. “That’s, like, $200 in tickets if you add them all up. I hope an officer comes by here. We need to ticket that car.”

As his views have dramatically changed about how the drug war is being waged (he was somewhat of a drug war hawk when he was younger), hopefully he exams the general violence being executed by govts everywhere against citizens under the guise of ‘law enforcement’. It’d be nice to see someone advocate for reasonable and proportional penalties. If that driver had been a confused senior citizen on a fixed income, those fines for that minor offense would’ve amounted to several days worth of income.

Damn, good point.

In my neverending quest to eradicate optimism wherever I find it, I have to encourage you to revert back to realism, Aresen. Nothing short of a revolution will change things. The police will simply redouble their efforts against those unprotected by the State and institute safeguards to ensure that they don’t mistakenly target the State-protected.

A shout-out to Boyd for pith.

But it is Mike T who wins the strategy award for the thread. That is the revolution that would make the State sit up and take notice. Mercy on everyone at that point.

#15 Bob

ALL raids should be fully documented, video and audio. With the all important ‘Entry Cam’ trained on the front door from one of the vehicles.

That would require cameras that cannot be tampered with by the cops, which means the cameras would have to belong to the property owners and the pictures would have to be immediately transmitted off-site (preferably by some means that couldn’t be defeated by the cops). Easier said that done. When cops start finding themselves screwing up on tape often enough, you can be sure they will institute counter measures. Cops don’t voluntarily allow the existence of evidence that points the finger at them.

As we all know, vehicle cams can conveniently not work, even if there are nine of them.

If that’s actually what the guy said, then that’s a horrific indictment of the Prince George’s Narcotics group.

ALL raids should be fully documented, video and audio. With the all important ‘Entry Cam’ trained on the front door from one of the vehicles.

Hence…Fuck.The.Police.

power is all in the editing

These terrorizing search and destroy tactics aren’t going to change because there just haven’t been enough children injured or killed.

Yet.

Correction: there haven’t been enough wives and children of police and prosecutors injured or killed. Don’t think for a second that your average narc gives two shits about “some civilian’s” kids. No decent human being actually makes a career out of being a narc. They’d sacrifice your kids to keep a reefer or crack pipe out of someone’s hands faster than a Moloch worshipper in a daycare center.