Sunday, February 1, 2015

The militarization of police intensifies in New York City. Welcome to the "Strategic Response Group."

An NYPD Unit Armed to Face Terrorists–and Protesters.
The benefit to such a squad is its ability to respond to an attack like the ones in Mumbai or Nairobi, where heavily armed gunmen seize a building with many hostages. The cost is the danger that the militarized unit will be turned on U.S. citizens.
Alas, that worst-case scenario seems to be Bratton's plan. The unit, dubbed a Strategic Response Group, is "designed for dealing with events like our recent protests, or incidents like Mumbai or what just happened in Paris,” Bratton declared, giving no sign of recognizing that one of those things is unlike the others.
The NYPD has a history of violently suppressing protests.
See also: NYPD to launch a beefed-up counterterrorism squad

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Strange how this comes on the heels of them closing all travel in the area for a snowstorm that never developed. That, I believe, was an exercise in how to martial law the city of NY. Stopping anyone from protesting is a direct assault on the First Amendment and stopping them with machine-gun toting cops is the most unconscionable thing I can dream of. On the upside, most people living in NYC (most, not all) are disgusting statists, and now they will find out just what statism has in store for them

Anonymous said...

Creative, they have used the issue of police militarization to their advantage. No longer dressing their operatives in "Terrorist Squad", "SWAT" or JTTF insignia, they now have the "Strategic Response Group" otherwise known has the home squad. An invitation to create yet another "special group" of "only Ones". They've just made oppressing the people more PC.