Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
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Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
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#2A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement)
SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change in the nature of SWAT. Now the teams are being used increasingly as shock police forces, bringing an escalated level of violence to a situation in order to overwhelm any possibility of danger to the officers or general public.
Seeing guys like the FDA, DOE, or EPA with their own SWAT teams is a bit unsettling, to say the least. One wonders where this will all stop.
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#3A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
Does that tie in to the recent stories about the Feds buying so much ammo? So many indicators lately that are disturbing.
*edited to add link
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billio...
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#4A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
Do you have a source for this?
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#5A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
Does that tie in to the recent stories about the Feds buying so much ammo? So many indicators lately that are disturbing. *edited to add link http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billio...
Do you have a source for this?
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#6A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
"SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations"
Your news is about 30 years out of date. Since the late 80s, there has been a massive increase in the use of paramilitary police teams to serve basic search-and-arrest warrants. SWAT was used against hackers in the 90s, it is routinely used to prosecute drug cases (perhaps most famously), and of course against protesters. What has changed in the last decade is that paramilitary teams can be seen simply standing by in public places; whenever I visit my family in NYC, I see paramilitary teams. Once I even saw a heavily armed SWAT team in Greenwich Village, apparently guarding a bank (or maybe the newspaper stand near it).
You are right that it is disturbing, but this has been happening for a long time. The past decade's increase is part of a trend that has been occurring since I was in diapers. Sadly, most people believe that we need SWAT and that it is entirely acceptable to use paramilitary teams in this manner. There is also a shocking lack of transparency in many places, where the police need not disclose how often paramilitary teams are deployed nor why they choose to use such teams.
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#7A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
Do you have a source for this?
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#8A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
Do you have a source for this?
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2012...
http://cironline.org/reports/local-police-stockpile-high-tec...
http://www.aclu.org/militarization
http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/growing-militarisation-pol...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sunday-review/have-america...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/09/12/police-milit...
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/how-the-...
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/police-militarization-an-in...
The video in the first link is probably the most interesting.
Edit: Also shouldn't forget http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
#9A bit off-topic, but related: there's also a huge increase in the number of federal agencies who are outfitting their own SWAT teams. (This type of service, if really needed, could be delivered by the FBI or local law enforcement) SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations -- to reduce violence. But in the last decade or so [correction: three decades], we've seen a change i…
"SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations" Your news is about 30 years out of date. Since the late 80s, there has been a massive increase in the use of paramilitary police teams to serve basic search-and-arrest warrants. SWAT was used against hackers in the 90s, it is routinely used to prosecute drug cases (perhaps most famously), and of course against protesters. What ha…
Incidents like this one don't help, where bank robbers wore full suits of body armor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
... probably because they expected SWAT. It's a bit of an arms race, literally, between the cops and the robbers.
Re: Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
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"SWAT teams traditionally have been there to diffuse potentially violent confrontations" Your news is about 30 years out of date. Since the late 80s, there has been a massive increase in the use of paramilitary police teams to serve basic search-and-arrest warrants. SWAT was used against hackers in the 90s, it is routinely used to prosecute drug cases (perhaps most famously), and of course against protesters. What ha…
Incidents like this one don't help, where bank robbers wore full suits of body armor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout ... probably because they expected SWAT. It's a bit of an arms race, literally, between the cops and the robbers.
That is also an exceedingly rare crime. It would have been acceptable to let the robbers get away, and then catch them later (if at all). Our cities are not war zones (thankfully).
To put it another way, this is no different from saying that the police should be armed with anti-aircraft missiles, because of the 9/11 attacks.