Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Drug War (continued)

4.5 SWAT Raids per Day, and that's just for Maryland.

"94 percent of the state's SWAT deployments were used to serve search or arrest warrants, leaving just 6 percent in response to the kinds of barricades, bank robberies, hostage takings, and emergency situations for which SWAT teams were originally intended."

Doesn't that bother any one? Why should I assume if some one enters my house with a gun, that he/she is a cop? And from what I've seen, the military has more "bureaucracy" to go through when raiding a house then SWAT teams some times do. I admit this is one area where historically I've been more on the conservative side of the alley (versus the libertarian side), on crime enforcement specifically. But, I'm tilting back towards the libertarian side over time, at least on certain things.