The ongoing militarization of the local police forces for the coming police state
Every major police force in the U.S. is now being militarized. Part of the reason is the drug gangs and the terrorist threat but that also gave police forces the excuse and the money they needed to create their own army. In third world nations warlords have that type of power. Here it is drug gangs and police gangs and the attitude of both is it is us against them. When the “them” becomes the citizens you already have a local police state. That is now true in some areas of the U.S. but not in most rural areas. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that if the trend continues a police state is in our future.
With one word from the federal government based on some perceived threat all these heavily armed local police forces will become nationalized and there arises the official big police state. Right now all the big police forces are in training for their future police state role that everyone but the sheeple knows is inevitable.
Much can be determined about your own police force by how they treat the citizens. If they treat you as if you are guilty until proven innocent, If you get thrown on the ground instead of questioned. if they just break down your doors when they could have knocked (with some exceptions), if a gun is pointed at you and you are unarmed, if they have road check points looking for anything they can find, if they pull you over for a minor infraction and then ask to search your vehicle, If they want to search your vehicle and the only option you are given to refuse is a vehicle impoundment, if they travel in packs like a gang, if they look like storm troopers when on routine patrol, etc. Then there is a good chance that you are already living in a police state.
American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State
Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15’s, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk.
Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: “We live on being prepared for ‘what if’.”
Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults
SWAT teams were designed to deal with very violent individuals who represent a clear and present threat to the public. However, they are now being used to execute warrants on non-violent offenders and even those who have no prior criminal history at all. Turning our neighborhood cops into shock troops will do nothing but erode public confidence in the police and endanger the lives of innocent Americans.
Recently, Boston´s new police commissioner William Fitchet announced that the department´s Street Crimes Unit will begin wearing military-style black uniforms, to instill a sense of “fear.” At last week´s city council meeting, police Sgt. John Delaney told council members that the black uniforms would send the message that officers were serious.
Did someone declare martial law?
Date posted: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 3:28 pm | Under category: American patriot topics, Big Brother/Nanny State, Danger to the US, Drugs and addiction, constitutional issues, control freaks, crime, gangs
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Im sorry, but there at no point has never been a non-police state. You are simply observing a recent expansion of targets and methods of the police state that has always been through all cultures through all history. SInce when has there ever been a society that did not have undesirables that the authorities wished to clense from the land? In fact, this country (America) has only gotten better in this respect. Just think of the old establishments of slavery and religion where one could get strung up for what today is simply ignored. The drug war and all that it entails, is a function of peoples resistance to legalizing them. Cant do that, those dirty black refer smoking men and opium smoking asians will seduce the innocent white women into their devil worshiping.
Technically you may be correct but I think people are well aware that we are talking about government tyranny in the common usage of the term “police state”.
This country has got so good at getting undesirables off the street that we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. I am not saying the incarcerations are not necessary but the drug wars have created the militarization of our police with a us against them mentality toward all citizens. A eat dirt until your proven innocent mentality.
Your big on the Constitution you know are forefathers would roll in their grave at any such thought as a national police force. But now with one word from the President all police forces will be nationalized. For the greater good of course.