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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRaw Story: Mass. SWAT teams claim they’re private companies and don’t have to tell you anything
We are really in some murky waters now.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/26/mass-swat-teams-claim-theyre-private-companies-and-dont-have-to-tell-you-anything/
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Some SWAT teams in the state operate as law enforcement councils, or LECs, which are funded by several police departments and overseen by an executive board largely made up of local police chiefs.
Member police departments pay annual membership dues to the LECs, which share technology and oversee crime scene investigators or other specialists.
Some of these LECs have also incorporated 501(c)(3) organizations, which they say exempts them from open records requests.
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The ACLU reported earlier this week that about 240 of the 351 police departments in Massachusetts belong to an LEC, which are set up as corporations but are funded by local and federal taxpayer funds.
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Raw Story: Mass. SWAT teams claim they’re private companies and don’t have to tell you anything (Original Post)
Skidmore
Jun 2014
OP
Kinda like the GMO corporations that claim they don't have tell you what they've done to your food
Crowquette
Jun 2014
#1
So... All of the privileges of being part of the government, but none of the responsibilities?
ck4829
Jun 2014
#2
Only $50 in meth but they take your house worth 200K. It's a good Fascist business model.
TeamPooka
Jun 2014
#9
Kudos to the ACLU. And also to the activists in Sonoma and Napa County Calif.
truedelphi
Jun 2014
#10
Crowquette
(88 posts)1. Kinda like the GMO corporations that claim they don't have tell you what they've done to your food
...or the "scientists" who claim they don't have to tell you who they are or how they reached their "findings."
It stinks. Totally.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)2. So... All of the privileges of being part of the government, but none of the responsibilities?
Boy, that doesn't seem corrupt... at all.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)12. This may backfire on them.
If they are not part of the government, then they could easily lose their "limited immunity" and their privileges for using non-civilian weapons.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)3. End the war on drugs, now.
The ACLU survey found that only 7 percent of SWAT missions involved incidents they were originally designed to handle such as hostage situations or shootings while 62 percent of their mission involved drug searches.
Drug searches where they throw explosive devices into the playpens of babies so they can catch someone selling $50 worth of meth. It's out of control & law enforcement is not your friend.
TeamPooka
(24,292 posts)9. Only $50 in meth but they take your house worth 200K. It's a good Fascist business model.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)4. Time to end the drug war and defund swat teams.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)5. Taxpayer money funds all, their argument is moot.
Attorneys get wealthy from litigating against LEO who create laws on the spot.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)6. Whoever thought of this scheme needs to be banned from government ....
... as does anyone who approved it, or approves of it.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)7. K & R !!!
TeamPooka
(24,292 posts)8. Prohibition is a failed public policy. nt
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)10. Kudos to the ACLU. And also to the activists in Sonoma and Napa County Calif.
Who are demanding changes in the ways that police now operate.
Citizens across the USA are tired of their neighbors and family members being blown away by trigger finger itchy police.
frylock
(34,825 posts)11. can we call it facism yet? please???