Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Police Militarization meets Hacker Culture: Swatting" video.

  1. Taylor Hense You are statistically, factually more likely to die at the hands of police currently in the US than at the hands of any criminal. 2012 was the highest year on record for civilian deaths at the hands of police, while also being the safest year for police since record keeping began in the late 1800s, so they can't justify such force by saying they're in more danger. 'Police officer' isn't even near the top 10 of most dangerous professions. Think about this: with there being 50 THOUSAND+ SWAT raids a year in this country, that's one raid every 10.5 minutes all year long. In the time it takes you to shower, there is a high statistical likelihood someone just as innocent as you having their door C4'd off the hinges and their Labrador shot while they're in the shower during a swat raid, which could have been caused by something so simple as reading a single number on a page wrong. Take the recent example where they had the wrong house and flashbanged a baby in it's crib and literally blew it's face off. All for drug possession? Dafuq ever happened to knocking and serving a warrant? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/swat-team-grenade-toddler_n_5418871.html
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  2. "people its not is bad as you think it is all they do is arrest you for a few hour then let you go when the relize nothings going on is it really that bad" I used to have a Saudi Arabian roommate, and one day I asked him "can you really get in trouble for asking a girl out on the street?" and he says "No, no! That's blown out of proportion by the western media. You get caught asking a girl out you just get picked up by the police in a van, they handcuff you, put a bag over your head, and you only spend like a week in jail. You don't even have to see a judge, so no, you don't really get in trouble". So yes, there ARE people conditioned to think that being restrained for any period of time without being charged with anything is perfectly ok. They're called SLAVES and I'd hoped they'd been eradicated from the US...
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  3. spoony smalls Usually it's the SF reject coming through the door in fake fatigues but real submachineguns.... Ponder this, when did they switch from being 'Peace officers' to 'Law enforcement'? It's a pretty im-fucking-portant change in meaning.
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  4. "What if a group of people held a school up with guns and bombs and mines" Seeing as NO swat team in the US is capable of dealing with such high-order threats, they would follow established protocol by standing down the local yokel swat team and bring in the FBI/ATF pros...
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