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BarryLee · June 27, 2014, 01:06 PM

I wonder how many SWAT type raids have gone good. How many law enforcement and suspect’s lives were saved because superior force was used?

While I’m not some blind defender of law enforcement and agree that cases like the child in Habersham County Georgia or Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta are very serious. However, the problem isn’t the tactic, but the misapplication of those tactics. In Georgia Democrat Vincent Fort and Republican Jeff Mullis have been working on legislation to clarify how and when these tactics can be used. The legislation passed the Senate, but stalled in the House last year.

Let’s push for appropriate regulation, oversight and accountability, but allow law enforcement the necessary tools to do their job.

June 27, 2014, 01:06 PM	#16
BarryLee Senior Member Join Date: July 29, 2010 Location: The ATL (OTP) Posts: 3,946	I wonder how many SWAT type raids have gone good. How many law enforcement and suspect’s lives were saved because superior force was used? While I’m not some blind defender of law enforcement and agree that cases like the child in Habersham County Georgia or Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta are very serious. However, the problem isn’t the tactic, but the misapplication of those tactics. In Georgia Democrat Vincent Fort and Republican Jeff Mullis have been working on legislation to clarify how and when these tactics can be used. The legislation passed the Senate, but stalled in the House last year. Let’s push for appropriate regulation, oversight and accountability, but allow law enforcement the necessary tools to do their job. __________________ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman