{"id":28483,"date":"2012-01-26T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28483"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:08:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:08:56","slug":"police-face-special-risks-from-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28483","title":{"rendered":"Police face “special risks” from Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, this is getting out of control. The Australian publication, the Sydney Morning Herald reports that “Troubled veterans pose special risk for US police<\/a>” (apparently it was reprinted from the LA Times, but I can’t find that one);<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice, which is developing the program, said there was an ”urgent need” to defuse crises in which police faced tactical disadvantages against mentally ill suspects who were trained in modern warfare.<\/p>\n

”We just can’t use the blazing-guns approach any more when dealing with disturbed individuals who are highly trained in all kinds of tactical operations, including guerrilla warfare,” said Dennis Cusick, the executive director of the Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute.<\/p>\n

”That goes beyond the experience of SWAT teams.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Does anyone else think that sounds just f^cking stupid? Aside from the fact that police haven’t had to face anyone who is “highly trained in all kinds of tactical operations, including guerrilla warfare”, what are they doing going up against people who aren’t highly trained with blazing guns, if they’re looking for alternatives for veterans? But what is the impetus for this sudden bout of hand wringing and panty-wetting?<\/p>\n

There is no data that specifically tracks police confrontations with suspects now or formerly associated with the military. But an army report issued this year found that violent offences in the service were up 1 per cent while non-violent offences increased 11 per cent between 2010 and last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, goodness, violent offenses rose a whole percent!? One year?! So how many more is that? One? Two?<\/p>\n

However, during that time crime in much of the US declined. ”What we’re seeing is that the volume [of violent incidents involving military personnel off base] has ratcheted up to a level we have never seen before,” Mr Cusick said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A one percent increase in one year is “ratcheted up to a level we have never seen before”? Oh, for f^ck’s sake. And to prove their point, they recount ONE story of ONE combat veteran who wounded two cops in a standoff in Fayetteville, NC near Fort Bragg. That’s all you got? It seems that if violence has ratcheted up, they’d have more stories than that. or maybe some journalism school-inspired research from calling the State AGs and coming up with some numbers instead of an hysteria-inspired hyperbolic hit-piece on veterans completely vacant of real facts.<\/p>\n

But, hey, the Justice Department has inspired the hysteria, so there must be something to it, right?<\/p>\n

So I went to the Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute’s website and apparently they are in receipt of a federal grant from the DoJ to develop a training program entitled De-escalation Tactics for Veterans in Crisis<\/a>. So there’s the motivation for the impending crisis – federal handouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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