Thursday, May 6, 2010

Selective enforcement teams,...

...SWAT teams, or whatever combination of letters a police department uses to designate their special response teams, were initially organized to respond to hostage situations, but you can’t have those guys sitting on their asses waiting and training. So, police departments started using them for high risk search warrants which came to mean drug raids which lead to shot dogs, insignificant amounts of marijuana seized, and parents charged with child endangerment because, well, the police didn’t have anything else to charge them with but a misdemeanor schedule VI charge. In this situation the only people that endangered the child were the police when they kicked in the door and shot the dogs. I dare you to watch this video and not get pissed off. Police videotape search warrant service so those targeted can’t make unsubstantiated claims against them. Here's hope, that in this case, the practice causes them no end of trouble.

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