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Fair point, but the current one certainly has a different view on drug use than the last. Gun violence would go down significantly if we stopped treating drug use as law enforcement issue.
Write your congressman. They pass the drug war laws.
I can't believe the number of people excusing these attacks. Have you not been paying attention for the last 35 years or so that this crap has been escalating? The OP's post is about an incident in KS, but don't delude yourselves into thinking that it's an "isolated" one.
State S.W.A.T. and federal raids have been steadily increasing, and these judicial warrants, which allow surprise entry, are frequently issued based on one anonymous complaint and, yes, they're almost ALL drug-related. Even church-lady apartment dwellers haven't been spared.
And although I understand the element of surprise that's needed in legitimate cases, you'd better put on your happy hats, because I'm going to tell you that it's overkill in even those cases. Innocent spouses/family members have been killed, injured, and had their property (realty and personalty) destroyed, without compensation.
Whether directed at known criminals, or innocent "collateral damage," these are government-sanctioned, flawed paramilitary police attacks on civilians. And it needs to stop.
This is true. Here is an example in Maryland;
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Since the law passed in 2009, the data have consistently shown that on average there are about 4.5 SWAT raids each day in Maryland.
• Prince George’s County alone averaged well over one SWAT raid each day in 2012 (510 in total).
• In 2012, nearly 90 percent of the SWAT raids in Maryland were to serve search warrants.
• About two of every three SWAT raids used forced entry.
• Half the SWAT deployments in 2012 were for “Part II” crimes, the nonviolent class of crimes. The vast majority of those raids were to serve search warrants on people suspected of drug offenses.
• In 22 raids in 2012, or a little over one percent of the total, a law enforcement officer fired his gun.
• About 15 percent of the raids in 2012 resulted in no seized contraband of any kind. About a third of the raids resulted in no arrests. The Maryland law doesn’t track what charges resulted in the raids that did produce arrests, but past reviews of SWAT raids by local newspapers suggest that only a small percentage of raids result in felony charges.
I did a lot of work there at one time. Many of the pro athletes from KC lived there.
Leawood has a lot of architectural styles, meaning you could be in one neighborhood that looks like Pennsylvania and drive a few miles another direction in the city in another neighborhood that looks like California. Very strange and bizarre architecture clashes throughout the area.
Johnson county is so affluent that they tried busing in people from other counties to work in the restaurants because no one who lives there will let their kids work for those wages.
Police are unaccountable precisely because right-wingers support them without question as long as they're murdering those evil blacks that 'conservatives' fear so much.
But when white people get shot we all pretend that it's shocking- and follow up by forgetting the whole thing within a week or so
Certainly not "full of" million dollar homes, but it is a wealthy enclave with a median household income above $140K. Too bad Leawood is located in Kansas as real estate appreciation would be far better nearly anywhere else.
You're last sentence is truly bizarre. Just how long have you been away from the area again?
This truly makes me question pretty much all your claims about the KC area because wow, you're wayyyy out there on this one.
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