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Originally Posted by Jel
Had the same thing 2 years ago with a knock on my door where they were after some guy who may have made it into my back garden. Copper wasn't a jacked up idiot barking shit around which helped, I'd heard the sirens in my turning and saw through the window the activity and it was all cool - saw him heading towards my door and knew he'd be asking for access to my garden, and had no problem with that whatsoever.
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Yeah, back in '06 or so they were looking for someone that got away and I opened my front door and a huge cloud from smoking weed rolled out into their faces. They knew what was up. They didn't care, they had something more important going on. Would have been two very easy arrests though to "make numbers" like everybody claims.
In Boston they were looking for a suspected domestic terrorist. Much more important than anything going on in your house, unless the guy was in your house.
People act like the police are some big, bad animal when many are just like us. The "militarization" that you see is for protection. They got billions in federal grants after 9/11 and wanted to beef up and look like military boys... that's more of a procurement issue than anything. They don't roll down the street each day like that; they use it to protect themselves when there is a perceived threat.
If anyone bothered to read Top Secret America, the project by the Washington Post in 2010, you would have learned that most of these billions were wasted on toys they bring out for parades. State fusion centers have nothing to do and spend their time trolling for illegal craigslist ads. That's what happens when you give people tens of billions to spend without oversight.