Post by duke on Mar 1, 2013 15:43:32 GMT -5
US is a Third World Hellhole…According to Police
[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]
What else can explain their actions and attitudes?
Law enforcement agencies in America are using the No More Hesitation series of cardboard and paper targets for shooting practice. The Minneapolis-based Law Enforcement Targets Inc. (LET) has produced at least eight of them, with photos ranging from a young boy to a pregnant woman in her third trimester, both of whom are pointing guns. Other posters include an elderly man in his home holding a shotgun and a young mother with her daughter in a playground. There does not yet appear to be a baby in a playpen target. Available for 99 cents a sheet, the posters are approximately two-feet-wide by three-feet-tall. (Note: all the posters I've seen are of white people; perhaps it is too controversial to shoot a non-white pregnant woman or child?)
LET is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) supplier. It has contracts worth at least $5,471,126 with several federal agencies, and it boasts of providing training materials throughout the military and to “thousands of law enforcement agencies at the municipal, county, and state levels.†Law enforcement customers are admonished to “Mix & Match 'No More Hesitation' targets for best pricing.†Presumably, officers who shoot the elderly man will also want the companion elderly woman target.
Under an advertised image of a pregnant woman, LET explains the purpose behind the training material, “No More Hesitation Targets were designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. No More Hesitation faded background enhances the isolation and is meant to help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time.â€
Correction: LET did caption the pregnant woman target in the foregoing manner. Some time last week, LET either removed the images of civilian targets or blocked open access to them. It is not clear what happened because LET's 'explanation' is ambiguous: “These products have been taken offline due to the opinions expressed by so many, including members of the law enforcement community.†Are they available offline? And why are some target posters still on the site (as of noon 25/02/13)?
dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/2/25/us-is-a-third-world-hellhole%E2%80%A6according-to-police.html
Should there be any question at this point if any cop will hesitate to kill anyone that is not in uniform?
Yet we still have some who want to give the cops more discretion to kill with ever more weapons.
Pictures are at the link. Pregnant women, preteen kids, Old men, Fat men in medical electric wheelchairs.
[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]
What else can explain their actions and attitudes?
Law enforcement agencies in America are using the No More Hesitation series of cardboard and paper targets for shooting practice. The Minneapolis-based Law Enforcement Targets Inc. (LET) has produced at least eight of them, with photos ranging from a young boy to a pregnant woman in her third trimester, both of whom are pointing guns. Other posters include an elderly man in his home holding a shotgun and a young mother with her daughter in a playground. There does not yet appear to be a baby in a playpen target. Available for 99 cents a sheet, the posters are approximately two-feet-wide by three-feet-tall. (Note: all the posters I've seen are of white people; perhaps it is too controversial to shoot a non-white pregnant woman or child?)
LET is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) supplier. It has contracts worth at least $5,471,126 with several federal agencies, and it boasts of providing training materials throughout the military and to “thousands of law enforcement agencies at the municipal, county, and state levels.†Law enforcement customers are admonished to “Mix & Match 'No More Hesitation' targets for best pricing.†Presumably, officers who shoot the elderly man will also want the companion elderly woman target.
Under an advertised image of a pregnant woman, LET explains the purpose behind the training material, “No More Hesitation Targets were designed to give officers the experience of dealing with deadly force shooting scenarios with subjects that are not the norm during training. No More Hesitation faded background enhances the isolation and is meant to help the transition for officers who are faced with these highly unusual targets for the first time.â€
Correction: LET did caption the pregnant woman target in the foregoing manner. Some time last week, LET either removed the images of civilian targets or blocked open access to them. It is not clear what happened because LET's 'explanation' is ambiguous: “These products have been taken offline due to the opinions expressed by so many, including members of the law enforcement community.†Are they available offline? And why are some target posters still on the site (as of noon 25/02/13)?
dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/2/25/us-is-a-third-world-hellhole%E2%80%A6according-to-police.html
Should there be any question at this point if any cop will hesitate to kill anyone that is not in uniform?
Yet we still have some who want to give the cops more discretion to kill with ever more weapons.
Pictures are at the link. Pregnant women, preteen kids, Old men, Fat men in medical electric wheelchairs.