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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America

 
malu
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07/20/2006 11:47 AM
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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
I know that a lot is happening around the world right now, but we americans need to remember to stay focused on the homeland as well, one of those watch this hand while the other steals from your pockets.



Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.

These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.

This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform.

Link with full report and maps of all the raids:

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07/20/2006 12:10 PM
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Re: Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America
good post, Malu
I know a few instances where innocent people have been killed during 'no-knock' raids.
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