Despite this clear referendum on the fact that communities would be better served by smaller, demilitarized police forces, police agencies throughout the country are dramatically increasing in size and scope. Some of the nation’s larger cities boast police forces the size of small armies. (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg actually likes to brag that the NYPD is his personal army.) For example, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has reached a total of 10,000 officers. It takes its place alongside other cities boasting increasingly large police forces, including New York (36,000 officers) and Chicago (13,400 officers). When considered in terms of cops per square mile, Los Angeles assigns a whopping 469 officers per square mile, followed by New York with 303 officers per square mile, and Chicago with 227 cops per square mile.

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/are_police_in_america_now_a_military_occupying_force

Friggin site is getting too big for its britches!

Lagging more and more all the time

I miss that pic of you wearing the puffy and frilly pirate shirt

I read some other article, recently, that said that police departments are militarized because there are federal funds for it, and the police departments can't afford NOT to take the money.

Police departments take money from the "homeland security" grants to hire and outfit whole SWAT teams. Then, with those SWAT teams, they're just itching to use them, so use them for every instance anything wrong could possibly happen, even though most of the situations would do just fine to have a uniformed officer come knock on the door and to question the first adult to come to the door.

Seriously, this is a topic that crosses political lines. We all need to write and phone our representatives to demilitarize our police departments.

Even Health and Human Services wear badges and the Office of the Inspector General I've noticed. What that about?

And cops are still skeert ta go in and clean the ghetto rats out so humans can live in peace.

I was a member of SCA for a few years. That pic was taken during a break from the enactments of the day and placed on the website for a while.

I have been a pirate and a rouge, a knight and a peasant.

Health now prevents me from continuing my passion for medieval re-enactment, sometimes wearing heavy chainmail and swinging a sword all day, but I still attend and love it!

You should hook up with Jeannie. She has all of that kind of stuff.
Whips, chains, handcuffs and fishnet hose with spiked heels. She could whip you into a submissive state in a hurry.

Gotta love the Jeannie

Yea, until she chops off your head!...

Police State Too Much? Send in a Marine!

During testimony at the Concord City Council public hearing regarding the acquisition of an armed Bearcat Assault Vehicle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Equc9A1pqQk&feature=youtu.be

Published on Aug 15, 2013

This is how the Free State rolls. This is just the kind of active support for limited government, liberty and personal responsibility that's increasingly part of daily life in NH. Thank you FSP. What took you so long to get here...?


During testimony at the Concord City Council public hearing regarding the acquisition of a ManBearPig-- er, I mean BearCat, the "Homeland Security" grant-subsidized (so, your money, regardless) armored attack truck (the manufacturer's description, although the cops prefer "rescue vehicle," which isn't exactly prominent in the marketing materials for some reason) by local law enforcement's Special Operations Unit, in Concord, NH, 8/12/2013, there was this little gem from retired Marine Colonel Pete Martino.

Complete hearing at http://bikerbillnh.blogspot.com/2013/08/two-hundred-activists-and-committee.html

"Peter Martino is a citizen of the State of New Hampshire. Mr. Martino is a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve who has been mobilized three times. During his military career, he commanded an infantry platoon, company, and battalion. He was also the senior U.S. adviser to an Iraqi Army brigade. Mr. Martino has had a successful civilian career providing training, consulting, and program management services to private companies and to state and federal agency contractors. Mr. Martino presently holds a top secret security clearance."

I don't see them as a military. Police are out numbered and out gunned. Throughout the decades there have been small skirmishes with citizens and police at all levels, but what police have not witnessed are citizens rioting and that is coming I believe. As government grows and claims more rights for itself and violates the rights of their bosses and continues to run the economy into the ground so a few corporate elites can make billions per qtr the people will take to the streets just like whats happening in Cairo right now. My only hope is that the U.S. military tells the president to **** off and sides with us to defend our freedom and our constitution should any president try to use them against us.