Shaq and SWAT raid wrong house...

[Skywarp]

As an average American Citizen I think it's scary. As a kid I remember seeing cops who looked like police officers. Nice uniform(khaki or blue), a badge , a gun, a baton, a mag pouch, cuffs, and spit shined dress style boots.

Cops dont look like that anymore. My city (92K people) wears black (or really really really dark blue) military style uniforms with subdued badges and name tags, a gun (or six, the way the cops talk in the shop i work at), four mag pouches, extra mags for an AR variant, an extendable baton, cuffs and combat boots.


Im 24

I'm now more worried about guys in black uniforms kicking down my door with AR's mounted with a red laser, a green laser, 2 surefires, and a bayonet because I downloaded one too many MP3s while I was younger, than I am about a crackhead busting in.



Paying for the damages to the physical property destroyed in the raid should be the tip of the iceberg. Kids are gonna need therapy, im sure they loved the muzzle break/ screaming masked ninja wake up call. Look at Elian gonzales....thank god for socialism paying for his shrink bills. After that I would have issues believing the cops are here to protect me, again more therapy, pain and suffering, ohh yeah a lawyers wet dream. I already pay taxes on one Delta force, I dont need a local chapter in every city.

 

[No_Brakes23]

I also don't like the fact that it's getting harder to tell the difference between local police and our military.

As a Marine, I resent that comparison.

 

[Tim Burke]

Non of them went bankrupt until after there was an investigation and the facts were brought out in court. None of them were presumed guilty. yet in every one of the hundreds of threads on this subject in the few years this forum has been in operation there has been a presumption of guilt.

The types of medical malpractice cases cited as examples are the types that can be dealt with under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur.
If you go into the hospital for a face lift and they amputate your foot, it's pretty clear that there was a screw-up. There isn't a presumption of guilt, per se, but according to the doctrine one can conclude that based on the facts of the case there was obvious negligence. If the orderly brings the wrong patient to the OR, the surgeon is still liable for performing the operation on the wrong patient.
It seems to me that most of the mistaken raids that we hear about could be subject to the same doctrine. That isn't necessarily a rush to judgment, since the Sheriff admits that they raided the wrong address.

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

I already pay taxes on one Delta force, I dont need a local chapter in every city.

Nice! Would you mind if I used that as my signature line?

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

I already pay taxes on one Delta force, I dont need a local chapter in every city.

Nice! Mind if I use that as my signature line?

 

[Skywarp]

Go for it!