why a 82 y.o. grandma have to stream to pay for fucking cancer?
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Because orphans need to be ground and you gotta pay to stop that.
#Freedom
Reminder that SWAT was created in response to the black panthers. It's a Jim Crow tool for dealing with uppity blacks that know their rights.
Just here to point out that it's not normal for a military response to some rando calling in a hit on someone's house.
A normal response is a check by a single police car with two officers. One to knock on the door and ask questions. The other to remain with the vehicle to call in any issues.
This is a police state.
They probably reported to the operator an excess of melanin at the residence.
It really depends on what the call in was.
If someone says there's an active threat and their life is in danger, sending 1 car would would be gross negligence and a danger to the officers.
Now, this call, seems excessive. I dont know what would warrant that response even if it was an active threat.
Another side benefit to The Drug War, the gift that keeps on giving.
Hundreds of thousands of people are sitting in jails and prisons right now for using. Over three hundred thousand on any given day.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/pie2026_drugs.html
This holdover from the Nixon era gets a little worse every year. Why do we have TWENTY cars available for any random prank caller?
Are we safe yet?
Your title leaves out the part about her being swatted. Who knows what the scammer told the police.
The news story linked said that the scammer told the police she was shot and killed.
They needed 3 hours to determine the state of grandma.
Very good use of the US taxpayers' money.
/s if not obvious
This keeps the military spending going. You sell last years models to the cops and you can use taxpayer money to buy new toys while people starve
Takes a special kind of asshole to swat a little old lady for trying to host a wholesome gaming stream for a good cause.
You don't know what she did in Minecraft.
(/s)
I heard she made a mob farm of babies
The fact that swating still happens just proves how much of a joke policing is in general. The fact that you can get a bunch of gun-wielding adrenaline junkies to show up somewhere, frothing at the mouth for violence, in the most spurious of ways is a damning indictment for the whole institution.
I still believe that "defund the police", is the correct choice. The whole damn thing has to go.
If you don't have someone authorized by the state to enforce laws, you're still going to get people enforcing "laws", it's just going to be vigilantes, people with grudges, etc. Just look how frequently you see incidents of road rage. Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.
Take all those incidents of people calling the cops on black men having a picnic or taking their dogs for a walk. If there were no cops, do you think these white "Karens" would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they'd get together and lynch them?
I think the US needs to scale its policing way back. It needs mental health specialists to respond to certain kinds of calls. The person who responds to a report of a stolen bike probably shouldn't have a gun. But, at some point you are going to need people who will use physical force to enforce the law. Those people should be heavily supervised by a truly independent body. But, they still need to exist in some form.
Yeah, this is what a lot of people fail to take into account when it comes to the purpose of policing in society. There's obviously a lot of inherent problems with the way the police are structured in many countries as a whole, but to believe that we can just make do without something like them altogether is pretty shortsighted to say the least. I think that prevents a lot of otherwise sympathetic people from taking the backlash against police institutions seriously.
Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.
No, cops exist to protect capital.
This is just one example too, they've issued multiple similar rulings. Also, uh, see: Uvalde.
If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?
...you think cops keep black people safe? Are you being remotely serious here?
Yet they won't do a damn thing if someone is actually assaulting you.
Probably shoot you and the aggressor since keeping themselves safe is the priority in their training.
Kudos to granny for being so positive about it and acknowledging that the cops have to follow up on the calls they receive, but if some anonymous tipster can bring down a SWAT team on some grandma's house without any kind of check being triggered, that might indicate that there are some problems about how these issues are being handled. Other people may get out of this with much worse than a funny story to tell when two dozen cops decide to visit their house at night.
They need to respond, but they need to end the whole "Killology" mindset that American cops are trained into.
People have already died from swatting. Faster and cheaper than hiring an assassin.
Once I read they threw a flashbang through the window and it landed in a baby bed with a baby inside, and went off.
Things we don't want to know...
From the point of contact, or including time to find a good one? A good assassin can be very quick.
I'll give ya cheaper though. Good work costs good money.
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And these police organisations keep spouting “but we need more funds, to protect the community”
No, you fucking dont, you’re wasting your resources by attempting to uphold your strict quotas rather than actually serve and protect the community.
TLDW; Also, fuck YouTube ads. Can I read about this somewhere?
Get revanced. Works on stock devices, no root needed.
Or an a ad-blocker.
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