http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/swat-team-shoots-107-year-old-man/
Ya' know, the thing about cops is:
A.) Usually they're jerks.
B.) They have a pack mentality ala pit bulls attacking a chihuahua
C.) Very often, as Arlo Guthrie mentioned in song years ago, they have a bunch of cool cop equipment layin' around that they hate to see gathering dust.
So you take a group of pitbulls with sh#$y attitudes and arm them with lots of cool cop gear and get, to what should not surprise anyone, 107 year olds being shot to death by the police.
In the early '70s, police departments across the country began thinking that they needed specialized groups to handle extremely dangerous situations like hostage takings and terrorist strikes and thus SWAT teams were born.
Smash cut to today where SWAT teams are called out nearly 40,000 times a year, most of the time to deal with the serving of drug warrants.
Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.
http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america
Although I completely agree with your assessment of cops, you are insulting the pit-bull breed in making your point. In case you don't know pit-bulls were once the nanny for children.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.examiner.com/article/19-photos-of-pit-bulls-portrayed-as-nanny-dogs