Our police tax dollars at work

With respect to the boss, its hard not to read this story, and feel a contempt for certain aspects of American law enforcement.

Briefly, a Prince George's County SWAT team conducted a no knock raid on a suburban Maryland home, detaining and handcuffing the family for several hours; and shooting their two dogs. Of course, the home the SWAT team broke into belonged to the mayor...The SWAT team was looking for, wait for it...drugs, a most perfidious and dangerous drug at that, marijuana.

The worst part about this case is the way the deparment and the union clossed ranks around the perps, I mean, SWAT team.

I understand that when entering a crime seen the police need to lock down the area and ensure every one's safty, the suspects as well as their own (heck, if someone busted into my home, even if they were police, I'd be tempted to go looking for the family firearms) but why shoot the dogs? Was a marijuana bust really worth all this?

I live in a nice NJ suburb of NYC. Here the police are worse than useless, they're a nuisance. They direct traffic outside the pharma plant, they hassle teenagers, and they write tickets.

This is not an anti-police screed. You're reading an admirer of Mayor Giuliani's break a window-bust a head school of police work. But there is something profoundly wrong when job holding, suburbanite tax payers have worry about para military police invading their home.

Will's book about the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Battle of 73 Easting, is called A Line Through the Desert. It may be purchased at Amazon