@earthling1

A few months ago a family was threatened to be killed because their 4 year old daughter took a barbie doll out of the dollar store. The cops threatened to shoot the mother while she was holding her baby. Kill someone over a doll? Yep that happens in America... or might have if people weren't filming it. Gotta protect the people who sell things right?

Yep.

Colorado police who blew up family’s house with CHEMICAL BOMBS just to catch a shoplifter owe them NOTHING, court rules

A Colorado family whose house was destroyed in a 19-hour standoff between police and an armed shoplifter is not entitled to any compensation from the department that rendered them homeless, an appeals court has ruled.

Police who deployed explosives and armored vehicles to flush out a man –who’d stolen two belts and a shirt from a Greenwood Village Walmart– from the house of Leo and Alfonsia Lech, are not required to compensate the couple for destroying their home, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday.

A shoplifter with no relation to the Lechs, Jonathan Seacat, randomly selected their house as his hideout as he fled from police on June 3, 2015. When police first entered the home, he shot through the floor at them, inspiring them to bring in the heavy artillery. Over the course of the next 19 hours, police rammed the house repeatedly with an armored Bearcat vehicle and used explosives - including 72 chemical bombs and gas grenades - to gain access to the suspect.

But, because their home was destroyed in the course of a police raid, the judges ruled, the Lechs were not entitled to compensation under the “takings clause” – the constitutional requirement that the government pay property owners for land it confiscates, usually under eminent domain. After all, the property was destroyed in the course of “law enforcement” – the police acted “to preserve the safety of the public” when they all but demolished the Lechs’ home to arrest a shoplifter, according to the court.

Are we a banana republic yet? Or one of the shithole countries that Trump blames for their own problems? Ayup. We are.

on the battlefield, we can use' em up in domestic police actions.
And what police dept. wouldn't feel safe with a couple of tactical nukes in their arsenal?
Howlitzers are great for SWAT operations.
And phosphorus would keep them pesky protesters from coming back night after night, and you could pick them out of the emergency rooms easy peasy.

@gulfgal98

While I have no proof of my supposition, there is no logical reason for the militarization of local police forces.

And of course the militarized police forces are not being created to keep us safe. Of course not. They are being created to keep the PTB safe for when we serfs have finally decided that the maniacs in charge of us have been leading to our country's destruction and asset stripping. Since Obama decided to bail out the banks and let the rest of sink or swim, wealth inequality has been steadily rising year after year and it is worse than what it was like just before the engineered great depression. They can't use the military to police us, but they can have the coppers go to Israel to be trained by their military to teach them how to see us not as fellow citizens, but as insurgents that will need to be rounded up. Never forget that the Great Saint Obama revoked Habeous Corpus from our hallowed constitution. Some military members that have come back and spoken out about what they did over the pond in the sand boxes have been arrested and sent to psychiatric hospitals and held against the will.. I have written about this before and if anyone wants links I will provide them later.

And now for more sh*ts and giggles Trump is not only persecuting Assange, he is now persecuting an American journalist for his exposing the behind the scenes coup on Venezuela and how Guiado is getting millions of our tax paid money to disrupt the country. And take vacations and do other things that are illegal.... ruff times my friends.

Violent crime has significantly declined over the last twenty five years, as reported by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). So why do we need a "surge" against crime when it has already been steadily declining by significant numbers?

Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 51% between 1993 and 2018. Using the BJS data, the rate fell 71% during that span.

In addition, crimes against property have also fallen by a similar amount during that same time period. Property crime is far more prevalent than violent crime.

U.S. property crime rate today is far below its peak level. FBI data shows that the rate fell by 54% between 1993 and 2018, while BJS reports a decline of 69% during that span.

So why is the President calling for a "surge" against crime? I believe there are two reasons for this. The first is public perception about crime which I attribute to the failure of our media to keep the public adequately informed. Instead the media likes to focus on the sensationalism in their stories and sensationalized crime reporting is one way media companies can gin up increased viewership and clicks.

In a survey in late 2016, for instance, 57% of registered voters said crime in the U.S. had gotten worse since 2008, even though FBI and BJS data shows that violent and property crime rates declined by double-digit percentages during that span.

The second reason may be far more sinister. With the increasing militarization of our police forces and the shutting down of constitutional rights, having a well trained domestic military force at hand is a very good way to keep the peasants from rising up. While I have no proof of my supposition, there is no logical reason for the militarization of local police forces.