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<blockquote data-quote="Raoul Duke" data-source="post: 2139659" data-attributes="member: 27529"><p><a href="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/ken_braun_a_gun_control_law_th.html" target="_blank">http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/ken_braun_a_gun_control_law_th.html</a></p><p></p><p><em>By one estimate, cited by the Cato Institute, American citizens have their homes and private property invaded 40,000 times per year by their governments use of para-military police raids. There are obviously cases where SWAT teams are sent after clearly dangerous and violent criminals that need to spend many years in a cage.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>When theres 109 military assaults on Americans each day, mistakes happen. An elderly couple in Brooklyn recently suffered through 50 visits from police when a computer glitch in the NYPDs database repeatedly dispatched cops to their home looking for various evildoers.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>How often are mistakes made?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Thats a hard thing to find out: Police dont often keep a public record and dont want to. Because raids often happen in neighborhoods where poor, powerless citizens like Torres live, even the bad cases can stay out of the public eye. If the wrong door gets kicked in, but nobody is roughed up and they don't know who to complain to anyway, then who but the victim and the cops will ever know?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>During the last session of the Michigan Legislature, conservative State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, tried to change this with House Bill 4857. It would have required a twice-yearly report from every SWAT team in Michigan. They would need to list the location of each raid, the legal reason for it, the details of what happened, whether shots were fired, what was seized and who was arrested. A similar law in Maryland revealed that 4.5 homes per day were being raided.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>McMillin introduced the bill following the death of a 7-year old Detroit girl who was killed during a Detroit police SWAT raid on her home. The only weapon fired was from the gun of one of the officers, who claimed (falsely) that the girls aunt reached for his weapon. Yet his only shot struck the little girl in the neck.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The bill received only two co-sponsors, both Detroit Democrats. It never got out of committee, allegedly due to strong resistance from law enforcement.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raoul Duke, post: 2139659, member: 27529"] [URL="http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/ken_braun_a_gun_control_law_th.html"]http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/03/ken_braun_a_gun_control_law_th.html[/URL] [I]By one estimate, cited by the Cato Institute, American citizens have their homes and private property invaded 40,000 times per year by their governments use of para-military police raids. There are obviously cases where SWAT teams are sent after clearly dangerous and violent criminals that need to spend many years in a cage. When theres 109 military assaults on Americans each day, mistakes happen. An elderly couple in Brooklyn recently suffered through 50 visits from police when a computer glitch in the NYPDs database repeatedly dispatched cops to their home looking for various evildoers. How often are mistakes made? Thats a hard thing to find out: Police dont often keep a public record and dont want to. Because raids often happen in neighborhoods where poor, powerless citizens like Torres live, even the bad cases can stay out of the public eye. If the wrong door gets kicked in, but nobody is roughed up and they don't know who to complain to anyway, then who but the victim and the cops will ever know? During the last session of the Michigan Legislature, conservative State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, tried to change this with House Bill 4857. It would have required a twice-yearly report from every SWAT team in Michigan. They would need to list the location of each raid, the legal reason for it, the details of what happened, whether shots were fired, what was seized and who was arrested. A similar law in Maryland revealed that 4.5 homes per day were being raided. McMillin introduced the bill following the death of a 7-year old Detroit girl who was killed during a Detroit police SWAT raid on her home. The only weapon fired was from the gun of one of the officers, who claimed (falsely) that the girls aunt reached for his weapon. Yet his only shot struck the little girl in the neck. The bill received only two co-sponsors, both Detroit Democrats. It never got out of committee, allegedly due to strong resistance from law enforcement.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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