http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/05/22/nicolas-aquino-story
Maybe these sorts of stories are just being covered more now but it seems
to me that police have been taking an increasingly brutal line toward
anyone that questions their actions. It's been like this for a long time,
of course, for
Nope, the tone since 9/11 has militarized, and they are treating ALL
infractions as terrorist actions by trained opponents.
Their training, budgets,
And the more that these kinds of incidents happen, the more they develop
the us vs them mentality.
It needs to stop, and it needs to be reversed.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Judah McAuley wrote:
Maybe these sorts of stories are just being covered more now but it seems
to me that police have been taking an increasingly brutal line toward
anyone that questions their actions. It's been like this for a long time,
of course, for
I do agree with this as well.
The reporting of news has changed. The de-localization and the instant
updates, and the better taxonomies, allow stories from elsewhere to fill
your local news feeds.
But I also do believe the police are getting worse.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Cameron
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson wrote:
But I also do believe the police are getting worse.
I think they have the potential to be worse due to expanded powers. Perhaps
it's that the 10% of bad apples is shrinking but even in smaller numbers
individuals now have the
Statistics show that it's way worse. Crimes by police are up, abuses, and
that's with all these new powers they've seemed to acquire.
Armored vehicles all over, weapons of war, used by masked men.
I was assaulted for recording masked men who set off explosives in my
neighborhood one morning.
Yes, this. +100. Well said.
It's like when that first cockroach shows up. Then the second one. Then you
see several of them at once. And you think my God, I suddenly have a
cockroach problem.
No, you've had a problem for awhileand like any problem, you have to
expose it before you can
Quite I'm still trying to see the justification for a small town to
get an MRAP.
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Nope, the tone since 9/11 has militarized, and they are treating ALL
infractions as terrorist actions by trained opponents.
Their
Apparently I am:
http://fox59.com/2014/05/12/armed-for-war-local-police-tote-pentagon-surplus/#axzz31isc0kux
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote:
Quite I'm still trying to see the justification for a small town to
get an MRAP.
On Thu, May 22, 2014
I've been suspecting that the glare of social media is also fueling more
brazen behavior on the part of police forces because of the way it
reinforces an us vs them mindset. There has always been a tendency to
bunker in and support your fellow law enforcement folks because it is a job
where you
I see this same issue in the VA trainwreck story.
The bureaucrats and the defense insiders are circling their wagons, not
wanting to lay any blame for the crimes being committed inside their orgs.
Unfortunately, the people that SHOULD be inside that wall, and given
protection by their fellow
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