SWAT raid for loan default?

[vantec08]

http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door

Isnt in itself 2nd amendment, but close enough that calgunners need to know about it.

[1stLineGear]

http://www.news10.net/news/article/1...kton-mans-door

Isnt in itself 2nd amendment, but close enough that calgunners need to know about it.

This is unreal and very scary. How the hell did this get authorized? All for a student loan? Good luck with the guy getting any compensation for his broken door.

[javalos]

This country is becoming a police state. So much for the Constitution.

[Oceanbob]

The Founding Fathers

are doing double-back flips right now.

Just HOW STUPID is our Government when they elect to send a SWAT team on a civil matter?

To an address that the female target (student loan defaulter) no longer lived at. And why did it take these CLOWNS 6 hours to figure that out?

Couldn't they just send a single person to knock on the door during normal time and ASK?

A 15 Man Swat Team..?.....dang...don't these people have anything else better to do?

This kind of GOVERNMENT abuse is PRECISELY why common citizens should maintain the right to own weapons.

Kick in enough doors in the early morning hours of innocent people and one day they can expect a prolonged firefight from someone who just won't agree to 'submit'.

JMO folks..YMMV

[louscamaro91]

My goodness. This is very disturbing. It makes you wonder what kind of petty thing they can get a search warrant for.. Just imagine if he had a safe full of gun.
He would be fighting to get them back.

[Some Guy]

I wish I could call this unbelievable.

[SigP510]

There goes the 4th !
Didn't know there was a U.S. Deptartment of Loan Shark Enforcement (DLSE)

[oldguy870]

It shouldn't surprise you. If they can put their hands down your pants as a condition to fly on an airplane, they can do just about anything.

[vantec08]

It shouldn't surprise you. If they can put their hands down your pants as a condition to fly on an airplane, they can do just about anything.

Unfortunately, as we continue to degrade and mutate it will probably only get worse - -- unless - - there is a huge shift in SCOTUS.

[galekowitz]

This should be posted on everyones Facebook status.

[Beelzy]

Search Warrant and Swat for a Student Loan??...........Put a fork in us, We're done!

[stormy_clothing]

now you all begin to see the problem as police departments around the country are cooking the books to drive down violent and other major crime statistics the SWAT budget becomes a target so how do you fix that other then adding another "mission" to your annual report.

[HowardW56]

Unbelievable......

[rgray]

now you all begin to see the problem as police departments around the country are cooking the books to drive down violent and other major crime statistics the SWAT budget becomes a target so how do you fix that other then adding another "mission" to your annual report.

This was not Stockton PD, this was the Feds. Per the article, Stockton PD only had 1 unit there as requested by Department of Education. Doesn't make it any less scary, just don't want people to harp on Stockton PD...this was not their doing.

[vantec08]

My goodness. This is very disturbing. It makes you wonder what kind of petty thing they can get a search warrant for.. Just imagine if he had a safe full of gun.
He would be fighting to get them back.

Dam right, lou, was my first thought also. If that guy would have had a dang BB gun under his bed, you can bet he would have been booked for . .. something . .. anything (illegal storage, highway mopery with cause, mooning a sardine -- whatever). And the bureaucracy would flim-flam and stall the return for years.