On the ninjafying of the police
Popular Mechanics has a piece (with scary photos) on NYPD’s terrorism unit. Key quote:
“The response we usually get is, ‘Holy s—!'” Nieves says. “That’s the reaction we want. We are in the business of scaring people–we just want to scare the right people.”
Well, you’re not going to scare me as long as members of your crew put their Aimpoint Comp red dot sights on backwards (which they’ve been known to do):
July 12th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Oops…hehe.
Oh well according to the Reality Based 5th Column there are no such things as threats so the man with the big arms won’t be needing his big scary weapon.
Just dropped in to let you know that I blogrolled you. Terrific site every single time I come here I leave with a smile.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:04 am
We aim to please 😉
July 12th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Hey… that’s the guy with his aimpoint on backwards… heh.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:40 am
I still get a kick out of a news story I once saw about the “heavily-armed” NYPD anti-terrorism units that were carrying…Mini-14s.
I guess to a hoplophobic member of the MainStreamMedia, even a BB gun would qualify as a “heavy armament”.
July 12th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
The picture above is about the only time I’ve seen “assault weapons on the streets”. Oh, but we can’t “militarize the border”.