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FailureToCommunicate

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21. I'm not trying to say MA cops are bad, or as bad as SWAT teams nationwide, which this ACLU report

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #9)

Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:20 PM

Jun 2014

looks into. It is disturbing, however nice(er) they may seem, that SWAT teams in MA refused to answer the ACLU for the reasons they stated.

You are correct to say that MA police units received praise for their handling of most of the manhunt. However, not everyone would say the police or especially SWAT teams were particularly "relaxed" or especially "polite" (That is my brother's apartment building in the picture above)

It was an extaordinary event requiring a big amount of cooperation by the otherwise quiet neighborhoods they searched. We're all glad it turned out pretty well...

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Mass. SWAT teams claim they’re private companies and don’t have to tell you anything [View all] unhappycamper Jun 2014 OP

Wtf? PuraVidaDreamin Jun 2014 #1

And what kind of activity might they not want to divulge...? FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #2

Cops in Mass are incredibly well behaved MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #3

Not exactly the point. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #6

I was addressing the photos of awful things MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #7

Cops may be,yes, but there are still many folks concerned with incidents like the Watertown FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #8

I lived about a mile from the Watertown incident when it happened MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #9

Seems they've decided a change of priorities was in order. n/t cprise Jun 2014 #12

I'm not trying to say MA cops are bad, or as bad as SWAT teams nationwide, which this ACLU report FailureToCommunicate Jun 2014 #21

I agree that it's disturbing. MannyGoldstein Jun 2014 #22

only 7% of SWAT missions are actual SWAT missions, 62% are drug searches bananas Jun 2014 #23

Radley Balko mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2014 #4

So they are mercenaries no better than Blackwater..... blackspade Jun 2014 #5

hence the need handmade34 Jun 2014 #10

Fuck off and die from a baby throwing the grenade Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #11

That could happen in Mass. if the "Georgia cop mentality" creeps in. nt valerief Jun 2014 #14

Speaking of Georgia cops 90-percent Jun 2014 #20

Basically, they just admitted that they're fascists MynameisBlarney Jun 2014 #13

If they are private companies, strip them of all their taxpayer funded benefits... Purrfessor Jun 2014 #15

Still unacceptable. I do not want the right to deprive me of my rights and take me under arrest Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #19

shit. it's one thing to pull this with the tourism council mopinko Jun 2014 #16

So then they shouldn't be allowed to arrest anyone.. truebrit71 Jun 2014 #17

tag leftyohiolib Jun 2014 #18

So ... tax-payer-funded armies against US? FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #24

Kick! (nt) NYC_SKP Jul 2014 #25

I bet they'll want to be public when the liability lawsuits roll in! Pholus Jul 2014 #26