The striking thing about the footage is, again, the utter mundanity of the raid. A family was just violently raided over an immeasurable amount of pot. A man was arrested over that pot. The money he needed for his business was taken from him. Yet there\u2019s no shame or embarrassment from the officers. There\u2019s no panic that the whole thing was captured on video. That\u2019s when it hits you. They don\u2019t think they\u2019ve made a mistake. This is what they do. The lead officers later tells the camera, matter-of-factly, that the raid turned up \u201ca personal use amount of marijuana.\u201d Perhaps realizing that he was also on camera back at the police station promising a much larger stash of drugs, he adds, \u201cIt happens. Drug warrants are, you know, 50-50.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wants to feel depressed about modern law-enforcement? Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n
Yes, I know \u2013 most cops are good people, doing a dirty job on behalf of a population that hires them to do the dirty work they don’t want to. I get that.<\/p>\n
And I grew up in a time and place where supporting the police is pretty much what good people did, and to do.<\/p>\n
But this really is pretty awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I’ve watched the ongoing militarization of American policing, I’ve become fairly convinced that law enforcement is the “standing army” that our founding fathers were worried about. A new documentary, Do Not Resist, doesn’t make that exact point \u2013 but it’s a short jump to it. The New York Times reviews the movie. One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60504,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60503\/revisions\/60504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}