“Officers often feel they are prey and that there’s nothing much they can do about it. We need to alter that mind-set.”Yeah, taking the paranoia and the us vs. them "Only Ones" worldview out of their community relations would be an improvement.
According to Smith, about 85% of the counts in federal indictments brought against terrorists in the U.S. relate to precursor activities, such as manufacturing silencers, failing to pay tax on explosive devices, converting semi-auto to fully automatic weapons, and illegal immigration.Now hold on just a dang minute--aside from that last part, I'm wondering who the people who ought to feel like prey are...
And research by policy wonks notwithstanding, I keep coming back to "uneducated" Muhammad and Malvo keeping an entire region of LEO's at all levels in blind, Moose-headed befuddlement for weeks. In the end, it was their own arrogance that allowed a citizen to call in their whereabouts.
[Via Carl S]