JBT image and conditioning

[TarpleyG]

I do not want to start a JBTfest, cop-bashing thread but I am going to pose a question here since the topic was locked over on THR.  In this thread:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=150679

chopinbloc made the following statement.

perhaps this has something to do with the fact that as we acclimatize the public to scenes of heavily armed, psuedo military types smashing in doors, they are less likely to resist. today a coke dealer, tomorrow a child porn distributor, next week it'll be paladin press.

With all that in mind, has anyone else here seen the commercial on TV where a groups of LEOs in all-black are performing a dynamic entry on an upstairs apartmet/motel room?  It's an insurance commercial or something like that and it is supposed to be light humor.  Makes my blood boil everytime I see it--so much so that I cannot even remember what the hell they are trying to sell.

People see this and eventually it becomes the norm, rather than the exception, that black-clad men in helmets with SBRs are knocking down people's doors for stupid, nonsense (most likely) drug offenses.

Comments, speculation?  I am interested in comments from LEOs and everyone else alike.

Greg

[Art Eatman]

I guess where I have a problem with the image is a comparison of numbers.  That is, how many thousands of arrests are made daily or weekly, with little or no drama?

Per the LEOs that are moderators at TFL/THR, the SWAT stuff is generally uncommon, as compared to otherwise.

Sure, we hear about screwed up raids/assaults/whatever, but that's because the screwups are rather unusual--which is the whole deal with "news".  If it bleeds, it leads, no matter who spills the blood.

Gotta remember that there are right at 300 million people in this country, for one thing.  Even a small percentage of that as idiots, nutzoids and just plain BAD folks is a significant number.

To get away from local cops, though, and more toward such FedGroups as the DEA and BATFE, I'm less sanguine--because of the power of federal laws.  However, the public hearings on Ruby Ridge and Waco seemed to have them re-thinking how BATFE does things.  DEA is less into arrests than undercover work, nowadays.  The FBI's focus seems to be more on terrorism than anything else, at the moment.

My observations through the decades about interactions with cops is that people talk their way into trouble, and then whine about it afterwards.

Art