Reason Writers on the Tube: Radley Balko Discusses SWAT Teams With John Stossel

Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko will discuss police militarization and the use of SWAT teams with John Stossel on Fox Business Channel tonight at 8pm ET.

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[Warren]

Dear Reason web guy,
What the fuck is up with putting the last sentence of articles on a second page?

W

[?]

More eyeball hits on ads?

[Jo Denny]

SWAT cops are the biggest ball less cowards of them all!

Lou
http://www.feds-logging.at.tc

[Solanum]

I don't think this involved a SWAT team, but close enough:

Cops Kill Father-to-Be in Botched Marijuana Raid

Pearce herself told the Las Vegas Review-Journal Monday that police forced her to kneel at gunpoint in the bedroom and that she could see Cole in the bathroom from the reflection of a mirror. According to Cole, police ordered Cole to get on the ground, he raised his hands and said "Alright, alright," and a shot rang out.

According to Pearce and family members, Cole had no criminal record, had achieved an Associate of Arts degree, and was working as an insurance adjustor while working on a political science degree at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He was not a drug dealer, Pearce said.

[mr simple]

"It was during the course of a warrant and as you all know, narcotics warrants are all high-risk warrants," Capt. Patrick Neville of Metro's Robbery-Homicide Bureau said Friday night.

As we all know, you are all a bunch of dickless cowards who deserve to be tried for murder.

[Zeb]

And who the fuck decided that words have no meaning and marijuana is a narcotic?

[Astrid]

LVPD Monday identified the police shooter as narcotics detective Bryan Yant, a 10-year veteran of the force. This is the third time Yant has controversially used his police firearm. In 2002, he shot and killed a robbery suspect, claiming the suspect, who was on the ground, aimed a weapon at him. But although the suspect's gun was found 35 feet away, a jury took only half an hour to find the shooting justified.

The following year, he shot and wounded a man armed with a knife and a baseball ball who had been hired to kill a dog that had killed another neighborhood dog. Yants claimed the man attacked him and that he mistook the bat for a shotgun, but the man said he was running away from Yants when Yants fired repeatedly, striking him once in the hip. Because there was no death in that case, no inquest was held, but the department's use of force board exonerated Yants.

Gotta love that new professionalism.

[Juanita]

This is too bad and very sad.

[cynical]

She should train her child to be the perfect cop-killer. It's got Hollywood written all over it.

[R C Dean]

"It was during the course of a warrant and as you all know, narcotics warrants are all high-risk warrants," Capt. Patrick Neville of Metro's Robbery-Homicide Bureau said Friday night.

They certainly seem to be high risk for the citizenry, I'll give him that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is this going to be a repeat tonight???

[Fist of Etiquette]

Live blog is a go!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm not sure I would go around Manhattan sniffing things.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Wow, a lot of pot heads in the audience.

[Fist of Etiquette]

95% of Bill O'Reilly's indignation is righteous indignation.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is Sean Hannity in the Secret Service? That can't be good for Obama.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"The law causes the crime."

And Hannity disagrees with that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ha, "100% certainty that crack addicts will kill..."

Hannity knows his crackheads.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jeffrey Miron: Hannity Hunter

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Stimulus plan for Mexican gangsters."

Except their stimulus works.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Mary is an all-or-nothing libertarian.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Jeffery and Mary are the original odd couple.

[capitlol l]

Balko!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Radley made Stossel take the red pill on SWAT raids.

[capitlol l]

Don't fuck with the mayor.

[capitlol l]

The outrage means no more taping of raids, sadly.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm not going to watch The First 48 with just bozos talking about raids.

[capitlol l]

We need to be entertained, we demand it. Killing kids is entertainment, and if the cops do it...all the better...at least it's legal then

Here we go:

cop v. cop

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chabot suggests there would still be raids even if drugs were legal. I guess they would find other reasons.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ooo, Franklin just suggested LEO like the WoD only because of the overtime.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Chabot would arrest anyone in the audience admitting to try cocaine once it's legal.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Here in PA we have a wine cartel. It's centered in Harrisburg.

[capitlol l]

Oh snap!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You hear me, right, cap?

[capitlol l]

Yeah, try to get a bottle of wine from a vineyard that isn't sold in the state stores...big pain in the ass.

[Fist of Etiquette]

With all the CNBC commercials geared toward the blue-hairs, I never would have guessed they'd actual advertise something called "Sun-Setters".

[capitlol l]

The white cop is a fucking idiot. His assertions and arguments are a study in contradictions and doublethink.

[capitlol l]

Future of our kids...hammer my face now

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, Chabot's positions are all based on drugs being illegal, not necessarily otherwise dangerous.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Guns don't kill people, drugs kill people.

[capitlol l]

I'm a vet, you fucking worm...

[Fist of Etiquette]

GET THAT AUDIENCE LIBERTARIAN HIS OWN REASON BLOGGER JOB!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hooking and booking doesn't happen?

[capitlol l]

Neill Franklin reminds me of someone from the Wire, though I can't place it.

[capitlol l]

You are terrorist, Paul.

[Fist of Etiquette]

John steers the show away from CIA conspiracies back to something resembling reality.

[capitlol l]

a terrorist

[Fist of Etiquette]

CAPITAL L, YOUR BROADCAST IS AHEAD OF MY DISH NETWORK FEED!

[Fist of Etiquette]

You probably knew the Pens were out of the playoffs before I saw the opening puck drop.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Damn, CNBC sure wants me to have insurance.

[capitlol l]

Fox wants you to have a hoverround.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Why the crap do I keep calling this CNBC? Is that where Jack Donaghy's girlfriend works?

[capitlol l]

I was wondering about that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Because I'm high?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Uh-oh, Balko and Mises on the same show. Stossel is loaded for bear.

[capitlol l]

Guns next week, sweet.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Next week, if Stossel doesn't pull out the Archie Bunker clip, I'm done with his show.

[Fist of Etiquette]

AH! CAVUTO!

[capitlol l]

That episode needed more Balko and Franklin, and less of Chabot.

Chabot sounds French, how curious.

Maybe, Stossel's intention was to show the stupidity of the drug warriors mentality by featuring Chabot. If so he succeeded, though I suspect that most Americans would see Chabot as a heroic soldier.