How we, the voters, have allowed Local, State and Federal Governments to conduct itself in its 'tough on crime,' and the change in 'Police Procedures' since, pretty much start with Ruby Ridge and Waco in the early '90s. By 2019, just over 25 years later, we not only had seven (7) times as many people in jails, despite violent crime going down, but ... we now use 'no knock raids' and 'military tactics' as 'standard law enforcement procedure' for non-violent offenses, and they are consist of the majority of cases.
Let me repeat that again ... over 25 years of violence going down, we massively increased use of military tactics in law enforcement to the point the majority of uses are now against non-violent suspects. We need to stop doing this to citizens, and putting law enforcement in harms way over non-violent offenses. In many cases, these start as 'turn in your neighbor' cases, which was very much the case of Ruby Ridge, and one of the very first examples of why we should never.
Again, we need to stop going after our fellow Americans, and putting police in harms way doing it, when they shouldn't in the first place. This is self-defeating police state, which is not about the police, but their procedures and use.
Let me repeat that again ... over 25 years of violence going down, we massively increased use of military tactics in law enforcement to the point the majority of uses are now against non-violent suspects. We need to stop doing this to citizens, and putting law enforcement in harms way over non-violent offenses. In many cases, these start as 'turn in your neighbor' cases, which was very much the case of Ruby Ridge, and one of the very first examples of why we should never.
Again, we need to stop going after our fellow Americans, and putting police in harms way doing it, when they shouldn't in the first place. This is self-defeating police state, which is not about the police, but their procedures and use.
Ruby Ridge Remembered: Militarized Central State Versus Individual Life and Liberty | Anthony Gregory
August 21 marks 30 years since FBI action in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, against Randy Weaver and his family. To commemorate the occasion, we offer “Lessons from Ruby Ridge,” by former Independent Institute research fellow Anthony Gregory, published in 2012 on the 20th anniversary: Twenty years ago...
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