Homeowners Kicked Out Of House For Child's Drugs

Harrisburg would be a contender too, since you know...

but should Allentown have one?

Harrisburg is ***. There's some buildings there full of government employees, service industry in the immediate area of those buildings to feed the employees during the work day...

...


...and then there's a 7-11 and some cow pastures.

Seriously. Harrisburg sucks.

I'm sure that those 3 should have their own SWATs. Does Penn. have any other major cities besides those three?

Using Texas as an example, the only cities that should need a SWAT team would be: Dallas, Fort Worth (yes, they need a separate SWAT team), Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi*, Laredo, Amarillo*, El Paso, Midland*

*Disclaimer: These cities noted more than likely do not have the crime needed to substantiate the need for a SWAT team. Corpus Christi is a port town, so their need is purely trade related, but Amarillo and Midland has no major importance to justify one outside of local crime. Border towns like Laredo and El Paso would need one because Mexican crime is crazy. Amarillo's biggest threat is Oklahoma.....

FTFY.

Emphasize Laredo with bold, and add Brownsville and El Paso in bold!

Texas is a difficult case for this discussion, at least imo, because of the current Mexican drug war going on (you know; a actual drug war. Not this "war on drugs" we fight here in America rather than approaching drugs in a reasonable, rational manner).

But yeah. Those border cities don't need SWAT. They need....well, they need Mexico to figure its problems out, but a huge part of their problem is American consumers of drugs.

Meh. Off topic now. But yeah. Those border towns definitely need something protecting American citizens.

Brownsville isn't that bad (yet).

Of all of the border cities, I only see El Paso and Laredo as actually needing to sustain a SWAT team. Just from the Mexican Mafia alone.

But prairie dogs? I don't kn.....



.........ok....maybe then......

Allentown, as Jet mentioned (which, I'm actually surprised to look up and find out Allentown has passed Erie as the third-largest city in the state).

Other cities that may feel entitled to their own force could include Reading, Lancaster, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Bethlehem, Altoona, York, and State College*.

That's all of the cities with 40,000+ people. Some of them could probably share forces, or -- a more appropriate response in my opinion -- is have the State Police forces situated in triangulated locations between/among them.

*State College doesn't necessarily need SWAT for the college kids, but they could probably do with a well-trained riot police force, given that Saturdays during football season means 100k+ people in Beaver Stadium, making it supplant Erie and Allentown for third-most people in a given place in the state.

About half of the crimes are drug related though. The other half are (indirectly drug related, but) scare tactics and mass murders to "keep people in line"

But yeah...you walk next to a car full of decapitated heads....that....well........

Yeah, don't want to talk about that.....

Border towns do not just need a SWAT team, they need their own military base....

My original thought was along the lines of miltary vehciles with mounted weapons, yes.

Terrifyingly adorable! Maybe we should send them to Guatemala to hash things out with MS13.

We should probably send some river otters to keep the prairie dogs in check with their tantalizingly playful aqua acrobatics.

I've been to Reading, and yeah: *** all of PA dude, :P

I love my state. Very few places in the world I'd rather live.

I'm just not overly fond of a lot of the people here.

And unless you've been north of I-80, you've not experienced the better parts of the state.

The geographical state itself, I mean. Obviously there's not much as far as people go up that way, but that's part of why I love it so much.

Praire dogs are HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE. you can shoot one, & his buddies come up out of the ground after 5-10 mins to eat their fallen comrade. then you shoot them. it's quite ridiculous.

that's awesome

Hey. It's dead now. Now it's just food.

Pragmatism at its finest.

doesn't get you turned into a red mist......

>.>

I'm not saying they put a lot of thought into the consequences of going back out for the food.

They cannibalize each other?!? Well, now I don't want to risk the river otters.

Otters are terrible!

Adorable, too.

But terrible!

Terrible Otters

Otters are awesome.

Pictures and videos of otters doing cute things are awesome.

They can be pretty evil, though. :x

Edit: Don't be too worried. Ducks are apparently the biggest rapists of the animal kingdom.

I just go ahead and tell myself that's just the ducks I don't like. They're like people. It's only some of them. ._.;

Ducks are terrible according to your link, Ramy. That monkey got what was coming to him.

EDIT: This thread took a surprising turn!

haha! You didn't look! (Unless you're getting a different side bar than me).

This isn't the "I *** love science" link!

Though I've read that too.

Anyhow. I've gotta head out. Dentist appointment. Feel free to bash my state legislature without me.~

Will do!

Interesting follow up article:

Come and Take It

Libertarians fight for people whose property was seized by the police.

If the police could be trusted to follow the rules and keep cool heads, this could apply. In large, they don't. It may take more than a few of these kinds of shootouts before the general public starts to get the message. If people are willing to become martyrs for the cause, so be it, recent generations have become complacent. We haven't had to actually fight for our freedoms in a very long time. Will you be the establishment apologist when they break down your door? I'm not a gun nut by a long shot, but I see nothing wrong with defending your home from ANYONE who enters unlawfully/forcibly with the intent to deprive you of property or freedom.

Oh FFS, it would take very little time to confirm it before a raid. You know, like they are supposed to in the process of getting the warrant. Or hell, making sure that the number on the house actually matches the paperwork, instead of raiding the house next door.

Let alone the entire goddamn concept that by performing raids, instead of simply serving a warrant, they are again escalating conflicts by default.

The point of these raids is supposed to acquire evidence in order to convict people in a court of law, that would otherwise be destroyed. If this can't be done without the risk of killing any of the residents, then in most cases this should simply be performed.

Hell, you could drastically reduce the likelyhood of any kind of conflict simply by monitoring the residence for a relatively short duration, in order to know what the hell you are getting into, and a generally good idea of who is at the premises at any given time.