Cops go into peoples homes and shoot them dead without a warrant. Now the cops want people to invite them in. Yeah good luck with that PIGS.
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Look, this a gang intervention thing. They are not trying to take grandma’s house.
Maybe then you can explain to us why the Department of Homeland Security arrests people when they find drugs in their baggage? After all, they’re just there to ensure airport security…
Intentions are all well and good, but authority has a tendency to over exert itself.
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Oh to be a copywriter for The Onion these days. Real news just keeps giving. Someone should initiate a mad-lib style bank head generator for this story:
Cops cancel “let us search your house for guns” program
Initiate “let us frisk your body for contraband” concept
Create “Warren, Les, Serge, & Ceasar” officer action figures
I have a number of alternatives that are worse, have even worse PR, and are inherently doomed to failure and are more than similarly based in what really happens in the U.S. … but they are off topic. 
Tina Belcher “uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.” You might wanna examine your assumptions there because you’re venturing boldly into overt prejudicial territory there. And I’m being extremely nice there. 7.5 days a week there your response warrants something else entirely.
Sequel to the above Tina Belcher “Uhhhhhhhhhhh.” Seriously?! What country are you living in that police wanting to avoid seizing grandma’s house seems remotely plausible? I—and a great may other people I’m sure—would like to live in that country.
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Someone should remind grandma, snitches get stitches.
Nice try, coppers. Maybe now start a program offering to scrub your computer for any illegal porn.
“It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.” - Sgt. Wilson, Tactical Porn Review Squad.*
*Three weeks after our interview, Sgt. Wilson was placed on medical leave for severe carpel tunnel syndrome.
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Come to Europe, there’s quite good US expat community here.
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Tip. End. LOL.
I’m also opting out of the “Search Your Bookcases for Suspicious Materials”, and the “While We’re Here, What’s On Your Hard Drive?” programs.
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“If it’s evidence they hope to find, why not have a program where citizens can search the police station. That may result in much better results”
I’m sure they’d find plenty of evidence of all sorts of wrongdoing, but equally sure they’d have exactly 0% chance of securing a meaningful conviction for anything…
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…pulled it off nicely, thank you officer for normalizing their behavior. Your justifications will really save the neighborhood you sound so deeply concerned about.
Please, do carry on with the thin blue circle of wagons.
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There was a darkly hilarious recent episode of This American Life which detailed several undercover gun buyback programs in the U.S. The net result of these programs were: severely increased crime rates, increased presence of guns in the vicinity of school areas, and the eventual arrest and incarceration of a few mentally challenged neighborhood residents the police had entrapped by recruiting them to work (at below minimum wage) at the storefront for buying illegal weapons.
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Look at that cop’s picture and tell me he hasn’t just had a couple of hits.
How does a kid turn a toy gun into an actual weapon? Has that ever actually happened?
Yeah, well, maybe we could just , you know, STOP CRIMINALIZING MEDICAL PROBLEMS?
So, fuck any cop who thinks catching drug-users (or dealers) is the way to help society.
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Do all Wisconsin grandparents want to help secure felony weapons charges against their own grandchildren, or just the ones in Beloit?
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That matches the little I’ve read about the origins and social function of gangs. Can you recommend any texts that go into more detail?
I’ve got no affection for this particular program, but man, this is a really dumb argument you’re making. DHS and a local Wisconsin police department have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
I’ve got no affection for this particular program, but man, this is a really dumb argument you’re making. DHS and a local Wisconsin police department have nothing whatsoever to do with each other.
I guess abstract thought isn’t everyone’s forte. Just to make it super clear, the point is that when you give power to an institution, the people in that institution tend to abuse it in unexpected ways. The DHS arresting people at airport security for petty drug offenses that have nothing to do with the safety of an airplane is one example of that. Another off the top of my head is the Department of Fish and Game arresting pot growers when they set up stings for abalone poachers during low tides in Northern California and they find pot in their cars. There’s countless other examples of that sort of thing, and in case its still not clear to you, I have a feeling this program would become another example of a well meaning program that resulted in absurd abuses of power if it went into effect.
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Sounds like something the British would have done.
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