Michael Brown shooting: Police, protesters clash in 4th night of unrestLaw & Order | 206824 hits | Aug 14 7:37 am | Posted by: DrCaleb  Police used tear gas and smoke bombs to repel crowds throwing Molotov cocktails during another violent night on the streets of a St. Louis suburb in the wake of the shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown.Commentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588
This is part of the problem, the blurring of lines between policing and soldiering. Police do not need camouflage uniforms, automatic weapons and armoured vehicles in order to do their job.
The federal government has not only doled out free or cheap surplus military gear so state and local forces can fight drug crimes, it has also handed out grants to help them buy heavy weaponry.
"It was just part of the escalation of the drug war and trying to beef up forces there," said Lynch. "We saw it even before 9/11, and then 9/11 and the wars exacerbated the trend."
Fears of terrorism fuelled even more interest in bulking up local police officers, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan provided surplus machinery and equipment that the federal government was keen to sell or clear out of their warehouses.
Some local police chiefs have argued that the heavy equipment was necessary as they faced criminals with increasingly advanced weaponry.
But community members and police forces themselves have both suffered fallout from the militarization of police.
Kraska counted more than 275 botched SWAT raids on private homes., while Radley Balko, author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, said he found more than 50 cases of innocent people who died. ACLU says minorities get disproportionately targeted.
Those mishaps not only fray relations with a community, but can prove costly for small police forces as they face lawsuits or are forced to disband their SWAT teams after coming under increased scrutiny.
As one small example, in early August, the Albuquerque Police Department decided to get rid of its 20,000-kilogram Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle – the bomb-resistant mode of transport used in Iraq and Afghanistan against insurgents.
I agree, and it's up to us, Joe public, to put a stop to it.
Uh, how? Voting?
Yes, not buying into the paranoia and racial hatred we see displayed on CKA every day. "Gotta have armored vehicles so the cops can protect us from them." When them are your fellow citizens, you may want to look at why them are pissed off in the first place.
If voting is the solution, we're screwed. If voting is all we have, a hundred years from now we'll just have a "reformed" version of this same BS.
What else you got?
Oh, and we have protests. A way for a minority to show that things need to change. Can in fact influence voting.
Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588
Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.
Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588
Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.
How are you going to prevent or solve murders or overall crime with armored vehicles and automatic weapons exactly? It's your type of thinking that leads to this mess. I guess the cops should lock down St. Louis the way our troops might do in a village in Astan. That'll fix it. Jeezus Christ.
Another good article on how the militarization of Police may be contributing to the protests:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/michael-br ... -1.2735588
Considering St.Louis ranks at #40 of the world's 50 most dangerous cities to live in, the militarization of the police in that city shouldn't come as a surprise.
I mean c'mon man, the city has a murder rate that's higher than San Salvador ffs and an overall crime rate to match.
How are you going to prevent or solve murders with armored vehicles and automatic weapons exactly? It's your type of thinking that leads to this mess. I guess the cops should lock down St. Louis the way our troops might do in a village in Astan. That'll fix it.
It's my type of thinking that leads to this mess? Uh sorry sport, I just merely pointed out the connection, didn't say I agreed with it.
But yeah, it's all the cops' fault that part of St.Louis is essentially a third world hell hole and has been for years.