Jacksonville (FL) Implements Orwellian Police State, Going to 18,000 Homes Looking for Drugs and Guns

And how did they select the 18,000 homes to violate the sanctity of?

Ill put a twenty on it that says you wont see the helmet warriors over off Soutel, or Phoenix ave..

The only problem is when the thieving junky next door fingers you as major heroin distributor and they observe your ebay habits, show up with swat team a shoot every dog in the house.

[link to abcnews.go.com]

A 61-year-old man was shot to death by

police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug

raid on the wrong house.

Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door.

Raids go wrong. Often.

The residents are black.

The homes are in a "zone". A zone that stands out because people get shot and drugs are dealt there. Simple.

The homes are in a "zone". A zone that stands out because people get shot and drugs are dealt there. Simple.

Oh, so those are now "constitution free zones" too?

Like I said, the residents are black.

He could do that any day, and other than the word of a junky they would have no reason to suspect that. And yea, sometimes they do raid the wrong houses, even more reason for me to positively identify him before hand.

They're just knocking on doors, presumably to show they give a damn and score some info.

Most "confidential informants" are junkies, a situation which can put the lives of law enforcement in danger, as well as civilians:

[link to www.policechiefmagazine.org]

Confidential informants are crucial to many law enforcement investigations and are especially essential in the field of narcotics investigations. Informants can provide specific information that is simply not available from other sources. However, the informants are often criminals themselves; if not properly managed, they can render a law enforcement investigation useless, destroy an agency’s credibility, and even endanger officers’ lives. To use confidential informants successfully, agencies must develop formal and sound informant control procedures.

The War on Drugs makes for strange bedfellows.

Well, as long as it's for the kids safety. That dang ole constitution has harmed more kids than numbers can express.


It's for the kids.

Repetition works.







This shit is to take away more rights from all, and you clowns are falling for it.

The new A.I. big brother system in Chicago already tracked most all crime to a little over a thousand criminals. Do they pick them up? No, of course not.

This week, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office announced that they would be installing new security cameras around the city and knocking on more than 18,000 doors, without warrants, as a part of an initiative called “operation ceasefire”.

Sheriff John Rutherford, Mayor Alvin Brown and Councilwoman Denise Lee made the announcement this Tuesday at a press conference outside of the local Sheriff’s office. The sheriff admitted that many aspects of the program, including the security cameras, would be paid for with money that was taken from victims of the drug war.

“We’re going to use the drug money we pull out of this neighborhood to protect this neighborhood,” Rutherford said.

In addition to the aspects of the project which are being funded through asset forfeiture, the department is also asking for tax funding of over 3 million dollars for new officers. The stated goal of this program is to decrease violent crime, most of which is related to the drug trade. However, the violence of the drug war is a direct result of prohibition, and the best way to stop that violence is to end prohibition.

Read more at [link to thefreethoughtproject.com]

Obviously, use the guy you got for possesion to work your way up. Doesnt mean they immediately go blow someones door off the hinges off that alone. They do surveillance etc.

This week, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office announced that they would be installing new security cameras around the city and knocking on more than 18,000 doors, without warrants, as a part of an initiative called “operation ceasefire”.

Sheriff John Rutherford, Mayor Alvin Brown and Councilwoman Denise Lee made the announcement this Tuesday at a press conference outside of the local Sheriff’s office. The sheriff admitted that many aspects of the program, including the security cameras, would be paid for with money that was taken from victims of the drug war.

“We’re going to use the drug money we pull out of this neighborhood to protect this neighborhood,” Rutherford said.

In addition to the aspects of the project which are being funded through asset forfeiture, the department is also asking for tax funding of over 3 million dollars for new officers. The stated goal of this program is to decrease violent crime, most of which is related to the drug trade. However, the violence of the drug war is a direct result of prohibition, and the best way to stop that violence is to end prohibition.

Read more at [link to thefreethoughtproject.com]

You say 'you', as if you don't shower in that shit daily and are magically shielded from it.



Pretentious fuck.

The ability to gather relevant information via surveillance may leave a little to be desired in some departments: [link to www.ajc.com]
UPDATE: The mother of a 19-month-old boy critically injured when a police device was tossed into his bed in Habersham County said Friday there is no way officers should not have known there were children in the house.

“They say there were no toys,” Alecia Phonesavanh told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today. “There is plenty of stuff. Their shoes were laying all over.”

Or this innocent mayor:

[link to www.salon.com]

At the bottom of the stairs, they bound my hands, pulled me across the living room, and forced me to kneel on the floor in front of my broken door. I thought it was a home invasion. I was fearful that I was about to be executed.” I later asked Calvo what might have happened if he’d had a gun in his home for self-defense. His answer: “I’d be dead.” In another interview, he would add, “The worst thing I could have done was defend my home.”

Wellstone.

Most of the residents in these neighborhoods are for this program. They sick and tired of the shooting that goes on every night and during the daylight also. a lot of parents
don't even let their children go out in the worst hoods.
They are really pissed.This shit goes on every day and night.
Their houses get bullet holes in them for no reason. It's a crap shoot living in these hoods. I'm just thankful I don't
live near any of this shit, or i'd be pissed to, and want it stopped.

FL has the highest percentage of its' citizens incarcerated of
all 50 states (the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world), go figure...

How much 'ya wanna' bet they're not going into the hood for this...