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SWAT Teams Make Cops Look More Like Special Forces than Peace Officers | Cato Institute: "Where Special Weapons and Tactics raids occurred only a few hundred times a year nationwide in the 1970s, they’d risen to over 50,000 annually by the mid-2000s, the bulk served “to enforce laws against consensual crimes.”"
"D-list action star Steven Seagal has a cameo in Chapter 9, a “ride-along” guest when an Arizona SWAT team smashed into a private home with a tank and shot the owner’s dog (he was suspected of violating animal cruelty laws). In a wrong-door child-pornography raid in Virginia in 2006, the terrified homeowner looked up to see NBA star (and law-enforcement buff) Shaquille O’Neal among the semiautomatic-toting officers. (How often is it, exactly, that a suspected Internet creep greets the police with a hail of bullets and a cry of “You’ll never take me alive, coppers!!”?)
Another section tells the story of the Martins, a Brooklyn couple who suffered some 50 wrong-door raids from 2002 to 2010, ostensibly because someone at NYPD programmed their address into the computer system as a placeholder."
Monday, August 05, 2013
FBI let informants commit more than 5,000 crimes in a single year, documents show | Fox News
FBI let informants commit more than 5,000 crimes in a single year, documents show | Fox News: "agents signed off on 5,658 crimes that year, but did not reveal specifics."
Aetna exits Maryland Obamacare exchange | WashingtonExaminer.com
Aetna exits Maryland Obamacare exchange | WashingtonExaminer.com: "pulling out of Maryland’s health insurance exchange after regulators demanded that it slash premiums the company had proposed by 29 percent"
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