“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
The American police state has become America’s new crime boss.
Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues to haunt us.
It has become the gift that America can’t seem to return.
We are now suffering the blowback from the triple threats of the Crime Bill: police militarization, a warrior mindset that has police viewing the rest of the citizenry as enemy combatants, and law enforcement training that teaches cops to shoot first and ask questions later.
Too often, that “triple threat” also manifests itself in deadly traffic stops, the use of excessive force against unarmed individuals, and welfare checks turned fatal.
A Gift America Can’t Return: The Police State Is America’s New Crime Boss

I worked with a guy several years ago who signed up the be a County Sheriff Deputy. He told me that he was sitting in a class room with other wannabees, when a Training Sgt. walked in, closed the door behind him, walked over to his podium and said… I’m paraphrasing: Get this in your head. Everyone on the other side of that door, and not wearing this uniform and badge, are low-life’s. He said that was his last day.
Peace Officers… I mean Law Enforcement Officers, are not your friends.









