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Srill not even a quantum of solace.
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barracuda wrote:8000 home invasions every day? Wow. That's 2,920,000 per year.
One in five homes? Wow. That's 22,000,000 home invasions.
Sounds like an epidemic. Better be prepared to defend yourself.
But wait...elfismiles wrote:Thursday, April 29, 2010
Behind the Arizona law and illegal immigration
... 200 home invasion assaults in a single year...
http://cuumbaya.blogspot.com/2010/04/be ... legal.html
The number of households in Arizona is almost two million. With only two hundred home invasions in a year? That's one in ten thousand.
No wonder everyone wants to live there.
(Those statistics have some 'splaining to do, 'cause I'm confused.)
4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day
Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
Over the last six months of 2009, SWAT teams were deployed 804 times in the state of Maryland, or about 4.5 times per day. In Prince George's County alone, with its 850,000 residents, a SWAT team was deployed about once per day. According to a Baltimore Sun analysis, 94 percent of the state's SWAT deployments were used to serve search or arrest warrants, leaving just 6 percent in response to the kinds of barricades, bank robberies, hostage takings, and emergency situations for which SWAT teams were originally intended.
Worse even than those dreary numbers is the fact that more than half of the county’s SWAT deployments were for misdemeanors and nonserious felonies. That means more than 100 times last year Prince George’s County brought state-sanctioned violence to confront people suspected of nonviolent crimes.
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Myrtle Beach lawyer arrested in Five Points last year after the arresting officers refused to testify, fearing they might incriminate themselves. ...Prosecutors told the judge the three officers involved in McCoy's arrest refused to testify because they did not want to incriminate themselves and would simply plead the fifth. http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12517487
Cory Maye, sometimes spelled Corey Maye (born September 9, 1980), is a prisoner in the U.S. state of Mississippi. He was convicted of murder in the 2001 death of Prentiss, Mississippi police officer Ron W. Jones during a drug raid on the other half of Maye's duplex. Maye has said he thought that the intruders were burglars and did not realize they were police. He pleaded not guilty at his trial, citing self-defense. Nevertheless, Maye was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death. On September 21, 2006, the death sentence was overturned by Judge Michael Eubanks, and Maye was sentenced to life in prison.
His case attracted little attention until late 2005, when Reason magazine senior editor and police misconduct researcher Radley Balko brought it to light on his blog "The Agitator." [1] Maye's supporters say his conviction and sentence raise issues about the right to self-defense, police conduct in the War on Drugs, and racial and social inequities in Mississippi. They have also raised questions about whether he has received competent legal representation.
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