The Growing Police State

…discover that she’s tougher than they realized.Baltimore is hemorrhaging money from suits against cops.  Naturally, the bureaucrats don’t think of hiring better cops, they think of screwing the victims out of money.  Smart.

Another week, another astounding revelation of the police kleptocracy we live under (NSFW language, but do watch it):

Good News:“Amid a national furor over police militarization, the San Jose Police Department has decided to get rid of a 15-ton armored vehicle it received earlier this year from a federal military surplus program.”More Good news:San Diego School District returns utterly ridiculous giant armored vehicle.Bad News:While generously foregoing the vitally needed grenade launchers, the LA…

American shakedown: Police won’t charge you, but they’ll grab your moneyU.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public’s cash as they can

…the LAPD cops forgot that the growth of the surveillance state is not an unalloyed benefit to the police it is supposed to empower.One presumes they will get the customary Severe Vacation with Pay for beating the living daylights out of a defenseless woman. But now and then justice is done when they get caught…

…has lowered the use of force by 60%.  It’s pretty simple: the cops are required to wear video cameras while on duty.One unexpected side effect of the surveillance state is that the police are being watched too.So when some cop decides to show a guy in a wheelchair who is boss:or bash in a woman’s…

here.The problem, of course, is not primarily with the cops but with the policymakers who give the orders and are assiduously working to transform the police from peacekeepers in a free society to instruments for treating a subject population like threats, enemy combatants, and cattle. The weaponization and militarization of the cops tells you what…