The frequency with which these types of stories are appearing is disturbing. If you read Radley Balko’s Overkill, you are left with no other alternative than to believe that the use of paramilitary raids by local law enforcement is not only on the rise, but is reaching epidemic proportions.
This story illustrates the chaos and pain that was caused for Kayla Irwin when cops raided her apartment, which turned out to be the wrong address. Over a month later, she still has not been compensated for the damage to her property. Almost everything she owned was ruined by their canisters of CS tear gas that were lobbed through her windows. Covering her apartment with shattered glass and a film of noxious dust.
Can a free society that claims to respect not only the rule of law but the individual’s right to be secure from illegimate searches and seizures really continue to tolerate these kinds of tactics?
Our story archive no doubt represents only a very small percentage of incidents like these that go on every day in this country. I would wager that most never get reported in the news. And of the ones that do, few make it onto my radar. But I will continue to collect the ones that cross my path, to serve as evidence that the cost of maintaining police goes way beyond the tax dollars that are wasted. The cost to individual liberties is much higher, and much more devastating.
Please offer solutions for we the occasional reader of your story archive on substitution for police. Do you agree with us that if every citizen owned firearms, was proficient in their use, and the 4th Branch of government made such known every issue of their publications, both the need for police and their use as outlined above would suffer the same fate as the nazis of Germany in WWII? But it wouldn’t be that quick nor that complete, would it, with the involvement of local rogues in charge of public policy?We see this radical evil increase by police as another one of the Signs of the Time of the End.