The sheriff of Pulaski County, Indiana, said his department’s mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicle is necessary, because “the United States of America has become a war zone.”
Sheriff you are dead wrong, and YOU SIR are the danger to the republic we face today.
YOU - personally.
Resign and retire. Then FEAR law enforcement.
You and any department you lead are a danger to my safety and those I love, not an aid to that.
“It’s more intimidating than a Dodge,” Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer told theIndianapolis Star.Pulaski County is one of eight Indiana law enforcement agencies to acquire the vehicles since 2010 from the Department of Homeland Security, the Star reported. More police departments across the country are turning to these surpluses to protect police officers, while also saving money.“The United States of America has become a war zone,” Sheriff Gayer said. “There’s violence in the workplace, there’s violence in schools, and there’s violence in the streets. You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract. If driving a military vehicle is going to protect officers, then that’s what I’m going to do.”Pulaski County, home to 13,124 people, has obtained several trucks, a snow camouflage parka, a “ballistic blanket” and night vision sniper scopes, the paper reported.“We are a rural law enforcement agency and not readily served by larger agencies … to handle our emergency needs,”
I live in as RURAL an area as there is in this nation and if I saw a sheriff here in THAT thing, there would be hell to pay among the people, and some very very difficult questions the sheriff would have to answer at EVERY SINGLE TOWN MEETING, followed by RECALL
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I couldn't agree more. There is a paranoia among LEO these days that has the deadly potential to become self-fulfilling.
We really aren't all that far removed from inquisitions and witch hunting.
Exactly what we have all been saying here for some time now.
You guys might remember that a few years back, in Los Angeles, a former police officer who was black accused the LAPD of racism, and threatened to murder a whole list of officers. I think he killed two people in a parking structure in Irvine and then went on the run.
In attempting to track him down, the Police Depts and Highway Patrol of five counties mobilized and took over the entire area.
The cops literally opened fire on two old ladies delivering papers in the middle of the night, pumping over a hundred bullets into their truck AND THEY SOMEHOW DID NOT MANAGE TO KILL THEM.
Thank God.
I don't remember there ever being an apology for the absurd reaction of the police to this situation.
The media went right along with the cops, by the way.
No criticism from the media.
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