Click pic to interact with the interactive map
For those who think we post too many bad cop stories, I have the greatest respect for the good cops who do a hard, necessary job. But there are just too many violent, sadistic, crooked, and in many of these cases, incompetents among their ranks and the good ones should want to get rid of them. One would think every one of you do, too.
An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
“If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern.”
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids,” by Radley Balko.
When viewing the map, click on a balloon to read what happened on that raid.
I’m blind to your feeble attempts to change the discussion. This is a discussion about cops, and nothing you can say will drive the discussion from it. Your actions only underscore the reality that you don’t want to talk about cops.
What do you want to know about them. I was one. I worked hard and I am tired of fools like you lumping the bad with the good. 200,000 people lost their lives due to medical mistakes last year alone. Look it up if you can. I don’t post here much, in fact not at all, but this is one subject I know Much about. Keep talking
Ah, the shoe drops. You might have a point Perry if the doctors killed their patients by cutting their throats with a scalpel. I can forgive an honest mistake but that isn’t what we are talking about here. We are talking about systematic and institutionalized brutality against citizens.
Negligence is Negligence. It is like looking at a black wall and calling it white. That’s the point..It is a epidemic in this county..Anyway..you see the point is If ..I draw a gun and shoot somebody holding a gun, then later found it to be a replica gun. It was a mistake. If a doctor gave what he thought to be a proper dose of a medicine, then later found it to be wrong. wrong is wrong. I do have a point, not might. Everyone makes mistakes, that was my original point. To say only law enforcement is the only profession who make errors is irresponsible..
#18 Improbus said, on May 25th, 2010 at 6:43 am
“Run for office Benjamin and I would vote for you. We need politicians that will bring these people to heel.”
Have you read post #17? It makes sense, so I couldn’t be a politician.
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Sounds logical. That does not sound to hard to grasp. (Local ncpd) EOW- 6-13-91
I ♥ Botched Paramilitary Police Raid Maps.
#24,
Sean Bell didn’t have a gun, did he? I don’t think Amadou Diallo had one either. So shut the F*CK up with your straw-man arguments and address the real facts brought up in the CATO paper. But I guess you didn’t bother to read it, huh?
#28 Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo were shot by uniformed cops, not SWAT, so they have nothing to do with this story.
What you should be complaining about is 7 year old Aiyana Jones who SWAT team members shot her while she was asleep. No excuse for that, especially since the police went in shooting.
I believe Sean Bell was trying to run down police while driving a SUV.
My version of Firefox, with a couple of security plug ins, seemed to think the web site was the home of Satan and his demon hoards. I had to kill the the browser, kill my connection to the net, launch Firefox then turn off the link to that site while Firefox was spinning its wheels trying to log on, turn my net connection back on then come back on line.
Thanks a lot.
The vast majority of these raids are a direct result of “The War On Drugs”.
I think they took that “war” thing a little to literally.
LEGALIZE
It’s the only solution.
29,
Benjamin, you are absolutely right. See what happens when you actually talk about the subject, Perry?
I have a problem with the philosophy behind the paramilitary attitude, I am not trying to draw a line and say “beyond here, no SWAT”. We need to examine how we are using police and their role in our society. The paramilitary ATTITUDE is what I have problems with, the equipment is a symptom, not the disease. Bad management is the real problem. The politicians are wrong here more than the individual cops.
You see, Perry, if we had started to actually discuss the topic instead of arguing about why we should be talking about it, you would have discovered that I do not blame cops per se, I blame managers, who in the case of the raid where the child Benjamin refers to was killed put improperly-trained cops in situations with wildly incorrect force postures with press embedded. That is a real problem and it needs to be discussed.
In the examples I gave, I live in NYC, where those situations demonstrate the need for better situational training.
We should be talking about better funding and training for cops, and changing the management mindset on how they should be deployed in a community.
But if every time the topic comes up, if cops and their supporters block discussion for fear it will turn into cop bashing, then the atmosphere actually becomes more condusive to the bashing they fear as there is no way for the discussion to become healthy debate.