Domestic Army......three blocks of police cars

2seaoat wrote:I am really happy that they have cornered the suspect, but I am shocked by some of the photos and video I am watching. I am seeing one street three blocks long filled with police cars......there have to be a couple of hundred cars........military vehicles.......buses filled with officers.........and all this is a response to one suspect,and possible more.

We have invested a tremendous amount of resources in law enforcement over the last 30 years with 500% increases in resources, but in the end people were killed by a couple of young men......and entire city of millions are in lock down, and every terrorist is seeing a method to attack us in the future........and sadly those thousands of law enforcement really could not stop the carnage, and doubtfully will stop the next pressure cooker bomb.....and thankfully we once again had a crime solved by security video which is where in my opinion we should be investing dollars. A single 19 year old is shutting down an entire major city in the US, and all the kings men cannot put humpty dumpty back together.........it is very frustrating to see our budget choices, and a store security video and the public seem to have solved this crime......also.....why the delay in release of this video.

2seaoat wrote:I am really happy that they have cornered the suspect, but I am shocked by some of the photos and video I am watching. I am seeing one street three blocks long filled with police cars......there have to be a couple of hundred cars........military vehicles.......buses filled with officers.........and all this is a response to one suspect,and possible more.

We have invested a tremendous amount of resources in law enforcement over the last 30 years with 500% increases in resources, but in the end people were killed by a couple of young men......and entire city of millions are in lock down, and every terrorist is seeing a method to attack us in the future........and sadly those thousands of law enforcement really could not stop the carnage, and doubtfully will stop the next pressure cooker bomb.....and thankfully we once again had a crime solved by security video which is where in my opinion we should be investing dollars. A single 19 year old is shutting down an entire major city in the US, and all the kings men cannot put humpty dumpty back together.........it is very frustrating to see our budget choices, and a store security video and the public seem to have solved this crime......also.....why the delay in release of this video.

2seaoat wrote:What bothers me is THIS is not the discussion. Something is really different than prior times. The proposition that spending trillions more over the last two decades to beef up our criminal justice system, and a common store video and the public solved this......yet exactly what is the purpose of three blocks of cars.....and thousands of officers standing around......we really need to have some soul searching and budget talks about how insanely large our criminal justice system has become.

It was the news media who found the uncle.......law enforcement should have been talking to him a day ago......but the absurdity of this response in Boston forcing every citizen to be confined to their home with one known suspect......we have some very serious issues to deal with, and jerk knee reaction that to discuss this is anti LEO, must stop........we need to realize this country has a standing army....the very thing our founding fathers pledged would never happen in this country.

2seaoat wrote:we need to realize this country has a standing army....the very thing our founding fathers pledged would never happen in this country.

2seaoat wrote:Just let law enforcement do their jobs...


Once again it has been the public who has solved this with a private party video. An entire city shut down by one perp.........and the entire population held in check by a standing army........sorry, is the terrorist bomb the problem, or is it the evolution of the American Criminal Justice System to where we can shut a city down......ironically the same city the British did the same thing a couple of hundred years ago and why we fought a revolution. It is the ease of how this entire city has been shut down which is bothering me. The power to put an entire population into house arrest. If there were 100 armed individuals, and known threats to the Metropolitan area.......I think I would understand this order, but to turn a free people into folks who are under house arrest over one suspect........Houston......we have a problem.

OK so what 17 shut down an entire nation....what's the point?...You are so wrong the police have to not only get their pos they also have to protect the public...better to error on the side of safety....because if not then the bitching woulld be how could the police not control the area...

2seaoat wrote:ironically the same city the British did the same thing a couple of hundred years ago and why we fought a revolution. It is the ease of how this entire city has been shut down which is bothering me.

2seaoat wrote:They are talking about locking down the Boston metropolitan area for the weekend........is there no one else who sees the problem here. Are we not giving huge incentives to have folks repeat this model? An entire city crippled by one individual. A population who can be manipulated by a government who only has to elevate an issue of violence, to a political or terrorist response.

The terrorist have just won in my opinion. They had not won up until today. They have won, and they see a clear path to repeat this if the American people remain sheeplike. Where is the protest to be under house arrest five miles away from the search area? A crazed husband who has weapons and bombs takes his wife hostage........should be shut down Houston.....Chicago......Birmingham.......? I simply do not understand this metropolitan wide house arrest.......it is mind boggling that they are now talking about extending this through the weekend.........the terrorist have simply lit the fuse to watch us destroy ourselves.....the exact formula Bin Ladin taught.

2seaoat wrote:They are talking about locking down the Boston metropolitan area for the weekend........is there no one else who sees the problem here. Are we not giving huge incentives to have folks repeat this model? An entire city crippled by one individual. A population who can be manipulated by a government who only has to elevate an issue of violence, to a political or terrorist response.

The terrorist have just won in my opinion. They had not won up until today. They have won, and they see a clear path to repeat this if the American people remain sheeplike. Where is the protest to be under house arrest five miles away from the search area? A crazed husband who has weapons and bombs takes his wife hostage........should be shut down Houston.....Chicago......Birmingham.......? I simply do not understand this metropolitan wide house arrest.......it is mind boggling that they are now talking about extending this through the weekend.........the terrorist have simply lit the fuse to watch us destroy ourselves.....the exact formula Bin Ladin taught.

2seaoat wrote:Just let law enforcement do their jobs...


Once again it has been the public who has solved this with a private party video. An entire city shut down by one perp.........and the entire population held in check by a standing army........sorry, is the terrorist bomb the problem, or is it the evolution of the American Criminal Justice System to where we can shut a city down......ironically the same city the British did the same thing a couple of hundred years ago and why we fought a revolution. It is the ease of how this entire city has been shut down which is bothering me. The power to put an entire population into house arrest. If there were 100 armed individuals, and known threats to the Metropolitan area.......I think I would understand this order, but to turn a free people into folks who are under house arrest over one suspect........Houston......we have a problem.