Police Roll Out Video Surveillance Truck Called 'The Peacemaker'...

[FA_Q2]

Tania Ouaknine is convinced the police are watching her.

She's not paranoid — it says as much on the red sign painted along the side on the hulking armored truck that's been parked in front of her eight-room Parisian Motel for several days.

"Warning: You are under video surveillance," reads the bold message on the side of the truck.

From the front bumper of the menacing vehicle, another sign taunts: "Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?"

The truck is a new weapon for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department in the fight against drugs and neighborhood nuisances, and it looks like a Winnebago on steroids. They call it "The Peacemaker," and it may be a first in South Florida.

Mixing high tech with simplicity, the in-your-face strategy is straightforward: load an out-of-service armored truck with some of the latest surveillance equipment available and decorate it with police emblems. Then, simply leave it parked in front of trouble spots.

"Make no mistakes about it," said Detective Travis Mandell. "We want people to know that we are watching the bad guys."

In August, police got the first of their two Peacemakers after paying the Brinks company $10 for a discontinued armored bank truck. They retrofitted the vehicle with cameras that can stream live video back to headquarters. With its cameras hoisted on each bullet-proof window, the truck can gather panoramic footage for up to 700 hours.

Last month the department added a second truck to its arsenal, converting a former SWAT vehicle into the second Peacemaker. Police park the unmanned trucks in front of the homes of suspected drug dealers and at crime-plagued street corners.

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DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

After reviewing the photo of that vehicle. Then reviewing the type of ammunition that I have available. They will need more trucks.

They are using armored cars like Brinks trucks. I doubt your popgun would be effective. The armored cars themselves, if you noticed, are unmanned. The surveillance crew is elsewhere, and you don't know where.

Then you have no idea about legal firearms or what they are capable of.

 

[FA_Q2]

If the people lit up the homes of drug dealers, and cleaned up those crime plagued street corners with a "Peacemaker" themselves, this kind of surveillance woudn't be necessary.

If the US Gov't wouldn't allow the drugs to come in our borders in the first place, this kind of surveillance wouldn't be necessary.

What an asinine concept. There will always be people that want to get high and others that cater to that need no matter what you do or how many people you put away.

 

[George Costanza]

If the people lit up the homes of drug dealers, and cleaned up those crime plagued street corners with a "Peacemaker" themselves, this kind of surveillance woudn't be necessary.

I'm a little bit confused. Are you advocating murder on street corners by the hands of citizens?

Let me put your confusion to rest.

Yes.

Thugs attack cabbie, passenger | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/30/2012

When the cabbie got out of the car to see what was going on, the passenger ran away and the teens turned on the cabbie. They punched him in the face, kicked him and threw a liquid on him, police said.

Despite being outnumbered, the cabbie grabbed a tire iron from his trunk, at which time the teens ran away. The driver flagged down a police officer, and the three boys were arrested. They were charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and related offenses.

One little tire iron made a big difference.

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

 

[FA_Q2]

I'm a little bit confused. Are you advocating murder on street corners by the hands of citizens?

Let me put your confusion to rest.

Yes.

Thugs attack cabbie, passenger | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/30/2012

When the cabbie got out of the car to see what was going on, the passenger ran away and the teens turned on the cabbie. They punched him in the face, kicked him and threw a liquid on him, police said.

Despite being outnumbered, the cabbie grabbed a tire iron from his trunk, at which time the teens ran away. The driver flagged down a police officer, and the three boys were arrested. They were charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and related offenses.

One little tire iron made a big difference.

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

What, in the post cited, makes you weep?

 

[Katzndogz]

Let me put your confusion to rest.

Yes.

Thugs attack cabbie, passenger | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/30/2012

When the cabbie got out of the car to see what was going on, the passenger ran away and the teens turned on the cabbie. They punched him in the face, kicked him and threw a liquid on him, police said.

Despite being outnumbered, the cabbie grabbed a tire iron from his trunk, at which time the teens ran away. The driver flagged down a police officer, and the three boys were arrested. They were charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and related offenses.

One little tire iron made a big difference.

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

What, in the post cited, makes you weep?

The entire idea of self-defense. It drives liberals crazy.

 

[SFC Ollie]

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

What, in the post cited, makes you weep?

The entire idea of self-defense. It drives liberals crazy.

The very Idea that someone would use force to prevent some no goods from making a living.....

 

[Cowman]

Let me put your confusion to rest.

Yes.

Thugs attack cabbie, passenger | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/30/2012

When the cabbie got out of the car to see what was going on, the passenger ran away and the teens turned on the cabbie. They punched him in the face, kicked him and threw a liquid on him, police said.

Despite being outnumbered, the cabbie grabbed a tire iron from his trunk, at which time the teens ran away. The driver flagged down a police officer, and the three boys were arrested. They were charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and related offenses.

One little tire iron made a big difference.

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

What, in the post cited, makes you weep?

This is what we're dealing with in today's conservatives, folks. Read it and weep - for our country if these nut cases ever get back in control.

What, in the post cited, makes you weep?

The entire idea of self-defense. It drives liberals crazy.

Self defense? You're actually advocating wanton murder. You're wishing Americans went out on street corners and murdered drug dealers with guns, aka "peacemakers" as you so put into quotes. That's what you said, that's how I interpreted it, and you confirmed it as correct when I questioned you.