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This excessive use of force and murder of innocent civilians without real justice erodes public confidence in law enforcement.
LEOs need to be denied military gear and tactics unless confronting threats for which there is no other recourse.
No knock and other such invasive warrants need to be severely curtailed with a demonstrated need and accountability for consequences. Risk assessments should be part of the warrant package submitted to judges.
"SWATting" needs to be made a felony.
Finally, officers wrongfully killing civilians need to be charged and sent before a grand jury for possible charges and trial. Instead of at worst, being allowed to move on to another department, individual officers need to be accountable for their actions as anyone else would be.
If these murders are allowed to continue unpunished, police will experience an ever increasing public mistrust and hostility from their citizens.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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