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« Atlas At Last | Main | J-School » July 17, 2006Paramilitary Police Raids
Balko has been at the forefront of several high profile police fouls and established himself as a leader in highlighting the problem. His research has uncovered three dozen examples of completely innocent people killed in mistaken raids, and twenty cases of nonviolent offenders who've been killed. He concludes that these raids "bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty only of misdemeanors, they 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." Posted by Joshua Claybourn at July 17, 2006 10:47 PM CommentsSimilarly, there has been tremendous abuse of civil seizure laws. Police and law enforcement operations ought to be proportional to the threat. I remember some time back the federal government seizing fraternity houses in Virginia over the discovery of small amounts of pot. The property seized bore no relationship to the worth of the contraband. I think these two areas show where conservatives and libertarians often part company, although I think true conservatives ought to be alarmed by the abuse. Posted by: Joel Betow at July 18, 2006 01:03 AM | permalink The most pressing problem faced by conservatives today (and Americans generally) is how they answer old Juvenal: Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Posted by: Chuck at July 18, 2006 09:38 AM | permalink What I found particularly disturbing about the Clinton administration was their tendency to use federal SWAT forces to handle what should be treated as social services cases, i.e. Elian Gonzales and Waco. There is a parallel to the way they sent the military into places to deal with civil strife on a purely humanitarian basis, even though US interests were in no way threatened. i.e. the Balkans and Somalia. It's as if his primary purpose was not so much the safety of the US, but in using force to try and fix social problems. Classic dangerous liberalism. Posted by: John M. at July 18, 2006 12:53 PM | permalink Post a comment |
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