When your favorite tool is a hammer...

Argghhh!
 ...everything starts looking like a nail.  Everything. The American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its year-long study of police militarization. The study looked at 800 deployments of SWAT teams among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012. Among the notable findings: 62 percent of the SWAT raids surveyed were to conduct searches for drugs. Just under 80 percent were to serve a search warrant, meaning eight in 10 SWAT raids were not initiated to apprehend a school shooter, hostage taker, or escaped felon (the common justification for these tactics), but to investigate someone still only...

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Posted Jun 25 2014, 08:42 AM by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..
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