Police SWAT Teams acting badly.

"Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit."

The militarization of the police is getting out of hand.  And it brings up the old adage, once you have it, you have to justify it.  SWAT teams are being used to serve warrants for simple misdemeanors instead of the high risk entry's for real violent criminals.

The police now that they have spent all the money on weapons, equipment and training, must justify that expense by using the teams for anything and everything.  It also strokes the egos of the officers involved, that they get to dress up like a ninja and carry a full auto firearms, kick in doors and hold the power of life and death in their hands.

What happened to the idea of law enforcement being "Peace" officers?  Their job was to maintain the peace and hold scofflaws accountable for their actions.

When I was a kid growing up in St. Louis, there were only 4 SWAT teams in the entire state.

Missouri State Highway Patrol

St. Louis City Police

St. Louis County Police

Kansas City Police

Those were it.

Now in St. Louis County there are 15 different municipalities that I am aware of that have their own SWAT teams.

Why?

Just so their officers can live vicariously?

We need to go back to "Peace" Officers.

Guns - Reality Check

Thanks to PISSED the Feral Irishman

Oh the lies being told about the Hurricane Sandy aftermath and Staten Island

"The baseball field behind Egbert Middle School is pitch black as our journalist team, led by Liam (who prefers his last name not be used), a Staten Island resident who swam flood waters to rescue neighbors as the nearby ocean swallowed his community, walk down an unlit street strewn with the detritus of Hurricane Sandy’s watery rage. Liam wants to show us what the neighborhood has been abuzz over: the site of what was a makeshift morgue, in the hopes that we might challenge what many here in Midland Beach see as an official orchestrated attempt to downplay Sandy’s death toll.

Midland Beach, a tight-knit working class neighborhood on the Island, has largely been washed away. What remains are uninhabitable homes and harsh utility floodlights that pierce the inky darkness to discourage looters, as unmarked police cars patrol the shells of former neighborhoods.

It is the closest to Hell any of us have ever been.

“It was in here,” he says as he beckons us to enter.

Taking just a few steps yields the stench of death. Like this smell, the truth of what happened here isn’t easily dismissed.

As with any story that spreads through a tight-knit community, especially in a disaster, there are inconsistencies and friends-of-friends third and fourth-hand accounts to rely on. Some say the flood victims, which rumor has it are to be found within the school, broke into the premises to seek shelter from the rising waters or the cold, only to meet with tragedy. Others claim that the bodies were found elsewhere and the school was used because the nearby Staten Island University Hospital’s morgue, with a capacity of no more than 50, could not handle the intake.
Rumors are natural, but this isn’t sensational gossip."

Click the Above to RTWT, and maybe some people can understand why I am so adamant about the KTD Project.

People died and the .GOV is hiding the facts.  People who if they had information might not have died.  People are homeless and without shelter, who might not be without shelter, if only they had the information they could use to prevent it.

State Department in Chaos

"I spoke with a well-placed journalist last night whose sources describe the situation at the State Department in one word: “Chaos.” The workingassumption is that several American embassies may have been penetrated,or are vulnerable to attack, because so many of them rely on local residents for staff needs at the embassy, and as such may be in a position to breach security if they have been recruited by Al Qaida. Moreover, the full story of the attack on the Benghazi consulate is muchworse than we have been told Independent newspaper report." 

How much worse is it going to be allowed to get? Before the State Department actually does the job it is supposed to do?  How many more American Citizens and Foreign Service Officer are going to die before the State Department and the President realize that you cannot expect Radicalists to act with courtesy?  And how much longer until the State Department lackeys who have slacked off, allowing people to die and classified information to be compromised are held accountable?