Tuesday, May 08, 2007

We're Evidently All Suspected of Terrorist Acts, Now

Radley Balko does an excellent job of pointing out the abuses of police forces around the country.  One of Balko’s recent posts, titled Your “What Country Are We Living In?” Photo of the Day, and make sure you take a look at the photo at Balko’s site, is very similar to a recent story out of Pittsburgh, PA titled Police are using armored vehicles.

Supposedly these armored vehicles are being purchased by police departments in case of terrorist situations arising in cities around the country, at least that’s what the police departments tell the Department of Homeland Security when they apply for their handout of your tax dollars to purchase their armored vehicles.  But in actuality these armored vehichles are more likely to be used as an intimidation factor for common thugs, as the Pittsburgh police recently utilized their armored toy.  But the vehicles do come in handy for more mundane things, too.

But police are also putting the equipment to more routine use, such as the delivering to warrants to suspects believed to be armed.

Look for your city’s armored vehicle in the next 4th of July parade.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/08 at 01:13 PM
(0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink
Page 1 of 1 pages