brightlight4 says: More Arms for non lethal crowd control at source I had a clip of the LRAD in action but YouTube now returns the "Removed by user" comment. Ya, I believe that. Sure. I am SOOOO glad I don't live there and hope these tactics are never used where I live!! Remember when the Police looked like this before Darth Vader came to town? http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/cccf87ba14_runaway_09202008.jpg You mean when they were human and the power hadn't gone to their heads? And they really really helped people instead of suppressing them? That would be when they were peace officers rather than law enforcement officers. The big change which distanced the police from the citizenry, was when the Cop on the Walking Beat became the Cop in the Driver's Seat - the severance of communication, smiles, friendliness and trust. Just as Academia has a publish or perish policy, so, too, does Law Enforcement have a productivity to "keep your job" policy: Arrest and Traffic Ticket Quotas and Forfeitures and Seizures, for example, to supplement budgetary shortfalls. The people have been depersonalized and metonymically transmogrified into law enforcement jargonesed "TARGETS," more accurately described as Fines and Bails Resource Units. Our mutual paranoia has engendered an Avoidance Reaction on the part of the people; ... |
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