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Yeah this is complete horseshit. I live in a city where there are only 30,000 residents when both colleges are in session. So about 20,000 permanent residents. Anyway, on our old base here we have Homeland Security choppers, DEA offices, and the local police are now armed with M-16s. They also have dirt bikes, jet skis, 4-wheelers and many more dispensible pieces of equipment.
lol, there are some good points, but he's also full of shit on others, regular cops driving around aren't dressed or armed like that, he kept showing special situations devoid of their context. They do have armories with heavy shit, and carry MP5's and sometimes M16's in the trunks, but have you seen what regular citizens(and criminals) have at home? I'm still more equipped than these fucks. I love how we accept scare tactics from people like this.
Quote from: Laconic on September 18, 2007, 02:51:27 PMYeah this is complete horseshit. I live in a city where there are only 30,000 residents when both colleges are in session. So about 20,000 permanent residents. Anyway, on our old base here we have Homeland Security choppers, DEA offices, and the local police are now armed with M-16s. They also have dirt bikes, jet skis, 4-wheelers and many more dispensible pieces of equipment.I dont get it. You say its complete bullshit but you basically describe the same thing thats in the video. Or maybe I'm just not understanding you.
Actually smoke break this is an emerging trend, for instance SWAT are now being called into domestic disturbances and to carry out all manners of raids on those that have ignored warrants. What this means is that the images of the darph phader type suits are becoming more and more commonplace. This is an incremental trend but it is certainly not a minority of cops who now look like this, far from it. By the way as far as SWAT are concerned, they were never intended to be used for domestic disturbances and other low level forms of crime and yet that is exactly what their role has expanded into. Needless to say the repercussions of using these types of troops on ordinary civilian matters is both dangerous, unnecessary and more importantly downright disturbing.