Since when are commando raids of schools acceptable?

Post #124,707 by Silverlock 11/8/03 1:48:23 AM Reply	Since when are commando raids of schools acceptable? [link\|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/national/main582492.shtml\|Link] For pot? The volume and the amount of marijuana coming into the school is unacceptable Seems like principal George McCrackin may be just a tad wacko. And what idiot on the police force authorized this? ----------------------------------------- It is much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than it is to give them a helping hand. Mike Royko
Post #124,713 by Andrew Grygus 11/8/03 4:47:40 AM Reply	Since Bush/Ashcroft took office [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #124,715 by deSitter 11/8/03 5:58:45 AM Reply	Saw the video I'm too jaded to bitch any more. Kids sprawled on the floor, pigs with guns drawn. -drl
Post #124,727 by gdaustin 11/8/03 9:49:15 AM Reply	I guess what ticks me off... Is that this is a raid for "show", so the principal and his friends can show how "really powerful" they are. I can hear him saying now, "Boy, we put the fear of God into those kids!" And all of his "good kids" will now turn on him, the ones who were trying help. If he isn't fired on Monday, he'll be dead by the end of the school year. The kids that go to this school hear gunfire every night. The school IS the absolute safest place they can be. Many of the kids here are even probably decent people, except they live in a bad neighborhood and they have to appease the alpha-male criminals to survive. If they are on drugs, it's because their "reality" is so bleak that the future in jail or juvie is an improvement. What the police need to do (like they do in our district), is go to school, pretend to be students, participate in activities, find the alpha-male criminals who "orchestrate" most of the violence in the ghetto, and arrest and jail them, forever. Glen Austin
Post #124,932 by jb4 11/10/03 12:23:07 PM Reply	Re: I guess what ticks me off... What the police need to do (like they do in our district), is go to school, pretend to be students, participate in activities, find the alpha-male criminals who "orchestrate" most of the violence in the ghetto, and arrest and jail them, forever. Several problems with this approach: 1) Takes too much time. You have to infiltrate, develop evidence, take notes, basically "do your homework". And while McCrackup might be perfectly willing to force his students to do that, we couldn't have one's admonitions apply to one's self, now could we? 2) Not showy enough. Like you said, this was an op for show, not for results. 3) Does not exude enough dominion over the ~~inmates~~students. (Or perhaps enough testosterone....) 4) Is likely to actually solve the root cause of the problem. [image\|/forums/images/warning.png\|0\|This is sarcasm...] jb4 "There are two ways for you to have lower Prescription-drug costs. One is you could hire Rush Limbaugh's housekeeper ... or you can elect me President." John Kerry
Post #124,743 by bepatient 11/8/03 12:29:57 PM Reply	They're not And hopefully the airing of that outrage will create enough fervor to let that smug bastard principle know that its not. If there was open drug sales in the corridors, as claimed, then why the hell was NOTHING found. Not in lockers. Not on students. Nothing. His job should be forfeit. The Superintendant he cleared it through should be removed and the police chief that decided this was a "proper" response should be removed. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #124,885 by Ashton 11/10/03 2:54:23 AM Reply	..kinda like WMDs ?

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