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Real0ne -> RE: Newsweek: America’s Secret Police? Intelligence Experts Warn (5/23/2007 8:28:22 AM)
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Oh but there is more! Police Are Using Armored Vehicles By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI Associated Press Writer May 8, 2007, 1:52 PM EDT PITTSBURGH -- After six people were shot in the city's Homewood neighborhood in less than 24 hours, Pittsburgh police rolled in with a 20-ton armored truck with a blast-resistant body, armored rotating roof hatch and gunports. No guns or drugs were seized and no arrests made during the sweep in the $250,000 armored vehicle, paid for with Homeland Security money. But the show of force sent a message. http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-police-armored-trucks,0,6807106.story Imagine that? i feel SO PROTECTED NOW! With scores of police agencies large and small, from Lexington, Ky., to Austin, Texas, buying armored vehicles at Homeland Security expense, some criminal justice experts warn that their use in fighting everyday crime could do more harm than good and represents a post-9/11, militaristic turn away from the more cooperative community-policing approach promoted in the 1990s.
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