Pubdate: Tue, 04 Feb 2014
Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
Copyright: 2014 Kirk Muse
Contact: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/submit_a_letter/
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2708
Author: Kirk Muse

RECORDING SWAT RAIDS COULD REDUCE VIOLENT INCIDENTS

I just finished reading Radley Balko's outstanding book: "Rise of the
Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" and I think
I have a solution to ending our drug war and SWAT raids. Require that
all SWAT raids be video taped before, during and after, with sound.
These tapes must be available to the news media immediately after the raids.

I believe that if all of the raids that involved the wrong address or
the killing of any people or pets or in front of children, the public
will be outraged and demand an end to them.

For those who have not read Balko's outstanding book, I suggest they
read the introduction and then skip to chapter eight. If you can set
the book down after reading chapter eight, then you are either a
psychopath or sociopath and further reading won't help you.

Kirk Muse

Mesa 
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