{"id":43293,"date":"2014-06-28T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/the-private-business-of-swat-teams.html"},"modified":"2014-06-28T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:08:41","slug":"the-private-business-of-swat-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/the-private-business-of-swat-teams.html","title":{"rendered":"The Private Business of SWAT Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"
I'll betcha if one of them was shot on a raid that it would still be treated as a "special circumstances: police officer" killing. <\/p>\n

In my opinion, when you start intentionally hiding your activities from the public, you start calling into question the extent to which you are "public servants." <\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another reason to reign in SWAT teams. They seem to think they don't work for the government.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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SWAT teams claim to be private mercenaries, immune to open records laws<\/a><\/p>\n

The ACLU reports [PDF] that when it made Freedom of Information requests for Massachusetts SWAT team records, the SWATs claimed that because they were organized as “law enforcement councils” (jointly owned by many police …\n <\/p>\n

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I'll betcha if one of them was shot on a raid that it would still be treated as a "special circumstances: police officer" killing. In my opinion, when you start intentionally hiding your activities from the public, you start calling into question the extent to which you are "public servants." Reshared post from +Les Jenkins … Continue reading “The Private Business of SWAT Teams”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/militarizing-the-police-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":43293,"position":0},"title":"Militarizing the Police (part 2)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jun-14 5:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting video story that's connected to my post from yesterday, with the twist of talking about \"swatting\" -- prank calling a SWAT team to a house with a report of a grisly murder.While that part's a side light, it dilutes (or doesn't connect up) two key items:1. 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