"Since the day his officers gunned down two pet Labrador dogs and handcuffed two innocent people for hours in a drug raid in 2008 at the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Prince George's County Sheriff Michael Jackson has clung to what seems like a preposterous notion that his men did nothing wrong." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803872.html
"...the fact that more than half of the county’s SWAT deployments were for misdemeanors and nonserious felonies. That means more than 100 times last year Prince George’s County brought state-sanctioned violence to confront people suspected of nonviolent crimes. And that's just one county in Maryland." - http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/01/45-swat-raids-per-day
"David Pyles hadn't committed any crime, nor was he suspected of having committed one. The police never obtained a warrant for either search or arrest. They never consulted with a judge or mental health professional before sending out the military-style tactical teams to take Pyle in." http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/16/pre-crime-policing/
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"Since the day his officers gunned down two pet Labrador dogs and handcuffed two innocent people for hours in a drug raid in 2008 at the home of the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Prince George's County Sheriff Michael Jackson has clung to what seems like a preposterous notion that his men did nothing wrong." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111803872.html
ReplyDelete"...the fact that more than half of the county’s SWAT deployments were for misdemeanors and nonserious felonies. That means more than 100 times last year Prince George’s County brought state-sanctioned violence to confront people suspected of nonviolent crimes. And that's just one county in Maryland." - http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/01/45-swat-raids-per-day
"David Pyles hadn't committed any crime, nor was he suspected of having committed one. The police never obtained a warrant for either search or arrest. They never consulted with a judge or mental health professional before sending out the military-style tactical teams to take Pyle in."
http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/16/pre-crime-policing/
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100309/NEWS/3090315
Study: Law Officers Struggle To Readjust After War - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124532170
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