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High school drug raid

BobK

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How incompetent can you get?

Come in with drug dogs and guns drawn, scare the hell out of the students, and still can't find any drugs in a high school?

I'll bet some lawsuits come out of this.

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The volume and the amount of marijuana coming into the school is unacceptable
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The bastards.

"I was just upset knowing they had guns put to their head and a K9 was barking at them and about to bite somebody. It was awful," parent Latonia Simmons told WCSC.
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I know this is America, but couldn't the reporter- or at the very least, the reporter's sub-editor- spell 'canine'?
 
Note this quote ...........

.............. from the article

"The paper quoted Lt. Dave Aarons of the Goose Creek Police Department as saying that the suspected drug dealers appeared to be knowledgeable about where the school surveillance cameras were. He said he watched school surveillance tapes from four days that showed students congregating under cameras, periodically walking into a bathroom with different students and coming out moments later.

They know where the cameras are. If they stand directly under them, the camera's don't look directly down,'' Aarons told the paper."

Did LT Aarons observe them even though they were out of his field of view?

The article also said that this was one of the largest and best high schools academically. These guys would have been better off if deployed in baggage at the nearest international airport.

Bent
 
The volume and the amount of marijuana coming into the school is unacceptable," said principal George McCrackin
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I'd say the students probably agree with his assessment, since none was found.:biggrin:
 
I can only wish that this had happened at my child's school. Guarenteed College education:D



Boo

PS. Any bets on how long it took til the ACLU got a phone call?
 
I know this is America, but couldn't the reporter- or at the very least, the reporter's sub-editor- spell 'canine'?
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I'm being picky, but I believe that the use of "K9" is correct here since the police units that work with dogs are commonly referred to as K9 Units.

In the article it mentioned that the dogs smelled drugs on many students backpacks but none were found. Did they look? All of this just for weed? Which is potentially more dangerous, kids getting high, or a bunch of cops with guns drawn at the local school? Which is more traumatic to the kids? Is there a school board election approaching or what? Stupidity is becoming an epidemic.
 
Having worked as a police officer, I generally find myself taking up the side of the police.

In this case, the "raid" stinks of a total lack of planning, intelligence, and internal security.

Either the action was unjustified from the beginning, or the entire school knew about the raid before it happened.

Either way, the police chief and/or school principal need to reamed for screwing this one up big-time.

As a parent, I'd be royally pissed off if this happened in my kids school.
 
There's a whole generation of kids growing up accepting of such tactics for their "security". I'm afraid of the assault on civil liberties that may occur when they run the country 40 years from now.

Hopefully extreme actions like this one will turn things around.
 
I'm wondering how many kids they handcuffed, and what they did with them afterwards.

I think that once physical restraint is involved, there ought to be some serious remedies available if it's not justified.

And, no, looking at someone and going "whaa???" is not justification.
 
Personally, I would rather have kids smoking pot in high school then a totalitarian police state.

But thats just me.
 
They could have had just as much success finding the drugs if, instead of calling in the Stormtroopers, the principal had purchased one of those dowsing units that you can tune for drugs/treasure/guns/condoms/etc.
that some schools have bought.

I got the impression that the cop that was interviewed on TV was disappointed that he didn't get to go to Iraq & kill heathens. Sometimes you've got to settle for second best.
 
Unf***ingbelievable. I'm totally with you on your above comment, Evil Yeti.

Pigs.
 
I would like to say that this could never happen in the UK but unfortunetly I have just heard that my former school has had a visit from the police. Nothing on this scale (no guns were involved) but they did bring sniffer dogs and I tnd to feel that police on a school campus as standard is not a good thing.
 
Mr Manifesto said:


The bastards.



I know this is America, but couldn't the reporter- or at the very least, the reporter's sub-editor- spell 'canine'?
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Ahh yes another example of his love of humanity from this "progressive."

:p
 
Cripes, does anyone support the Drug War anymore? Seems it's the one topic everyone agrees on.
 
"The paper quoted Lt. Dave Aarons of the Goose Creek Police Department as saying that the suspected drug dealers appeared to be knowledgeable about where the school surveillance cameras were. He said he watched school surveillance tapes from four days that showed students congregating under cameras, periodically walking into a bathroom with different students and coming out moments later.
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Wouldn't the simplest solution be to add some cameras that cover the area directly below the other cameras?

So if they did find marijuana in the school, could they have seized the school and sold it at auction?
 
Mike B. said:


Ahh yes another example of his love of humanity from this "progressive."

:p
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???

Didn't realise that 'K9' was the name of the police dog units in the US. My bad.
 
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