Everything Now Requires Maximum Dick Waving

Bigger the supposed threat the more swaggering self importance you can display and the more funding you can demand.
And since you can get away with it every fucking time why not do it every fucking time.

KC police’s raid, use of stun grenade draw probe

"Kansas City police have started an internal investigation to determine if tactical officers acted properly when they broke into a home and threw a stun grenade that caught drapes on fire.
Police last month were serving a search warrant related to a homicide investigation when they stormed into the home of a south Kansas City neighborhood leader. Three women and a 2-year-old girl were inside.
JeTuan Jones said the use of force — breaking open her door and throwing a “flash bang” device past her niece’s head — was unnecessary, considering that the search warrant was for a cell phone used by her brother, who had moved out four months earlier and was in police custody.
After barging in, police realized her brother did not live there and left without searching, Jones said.
“All of that could have been avoided,” said Jones, who was not home at the time. “Whatever happened to good old-fashioned investigating?”
Such “police-state techniques” should be reserved for the most extreme cases, said a national expert on criminal procedures.

“What we’re talking about here is police throwing bombs into people’s houses,” said Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a law professor at the University of Georgia. “To use a device like this for a search warrant for a cell phone when a guy is locked up is unbelievable.”

Behold our throbbing power.

TSA-Style Pat Downs Hit The Streets

"In Philadelphia, you don’t have to visit the airport to have the government molest you, TSA-style “stop, question and frisk” pat downs are already being conducted by police on the streets targeting people who act suspicious, by doing things like putting their hands in their coat pocket."

Teaching the kids to cooporate with the pricks.

TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says