Big brother looking at us. Policing america,wh where his theer line between security and liberty . . stossel i want the police to be better armed than the bad guys, but today, what does that mean . More than 100 square blocks were decimated by fire and looters. After the los angeles race riots some cities created heavily armed teams called swat. For years swat teams were only called out in emergencies like a riot or bank robberies. But their use hasho increased from less than one raid a day to today maybe 100 raids every day. Including cases where i have to wonder, why call out the swat team. Anybody that would be afraid of me if i was trying to menace you in some way. Joe is a stand up comic. The 5foot 3inch joe caught the attention of a swat team in new york. I had a really mindnumbingly Customer Service at apple store. So i went home and bitched about it on facebook. I quoted fight clyburn. Might walk into an apple store with a semiautomatic weapon pumping round after round into one of those smug fruity connoisseurs. It was obviously fromrg fight club. It i thought it was a goods time. Until 90 minutes later, a swat team knocked on my door. Yeah. Stossel he opened the door. Whole planet changed everyone has their guns charged. I dozen armed men. Was that necessary. If they googled me. They would say i teach a yoga class in an hour. Stossel his local paper suggested joe had been stupid. Who do not vent ont the internet. Ive never thought i could quote a movie Like Fight Club and it would bring a swat team to my house. Who knows what could have transpired if i didnt answer the door with a sense of humor. Stossel other swat teams like talking about what they do. I havein and planned approximately 200 raids. Charles leads a swat team in new york city. We arent soldiers. Were not fighting in a enemy. Were trying to help people. Police department. Search warrant. H his team usually knocks first and then depending on circumstances waits ten seconds or maybe two minutes. Police Department Search warrant. Stossel before breaking down the door. Were not liable for damage we do to peoples property. Patch up the door as best we can. U stossel the expense of barging into homes makes good tv. There are several swat team reality shows. Died in the line of duty. Kids would see us in the neighborhood and run away from us. After that show, kids come up to us. While he doesnt like waking people up in the middle of the night, others do. We want to win without having a fight. Stossel steve, a 25 veteran of the Dallas Police department. If i have a gun at home and someone is banging at my home screaming im more likely to pick up the gun and shoot. When you knock unannounced what youre announcing is police. Just because the guy says police doesnt mean hes police. Just hear bang bang. Scary. Its supposed to scary. And we use that to gain a tactical advantage. Before they can think. Thats exactly right. Stossel itnk doesnt get used o often today. G ive been involved in ive been involved in operations. We become so comfortable with this idea of using swat for everything as a first resort instead of the last. The police are turning into warrior cops and that swat teams are greatly overused says one writer and in fact today police use swat teams to raid truck stocks, barbershops and an organic farm, a fair and accurate h house where theres said to be underage drinking. An iowa man raided a house where they were accused of credit card fraud. Using this kind of violence on people that are suspected of crimes that arent violent is a disproportionate use of force. Arizona policee. Thought someone in this house were part of a drug raid. Inside was jose a,an exmarine who had completed two tours in iraq. He had just gone to bed after his 12 hour shift. The battering ram. His son and wife is in the house. He grabs his military weapon. One officer tripped and fired his gun. They opened fire. Seventyone shots. They killed jose a. His gun was still on safety inside the house the officers found no drugs or illegal weapons. I cannot fault an officer for using a gun raised at them. Steve now teaches tactics. He suggests try a ruse instead of a raid. We would dress up in ups uniforms. Package at the door. Come sign. Police search warrant. When you burst into peoples homes. Nasty things do happen. This swat team believes theres a large supply of marijuana. Did you hit my dog . He killed my dog. You killed my dog. The Police Posted this video on the web and it went viral. They rush in the house, shoot the dog, terrify the kid. The video speaks for itself. Theyre not pullinrrg hair. Theyre notpe swearing. Theyre not knocking people on their faces. Theyre walking through the house. Police with a searcheo warrant. Police with a search warrant. The pit bull is attempting to bite athe pit police officer. I think they have Legal Authority to stop the dog from biting them. They shot the pit bull because the pit bull was a threat. They did nothing wrong in that case. Stossel even though they didnt find that large supply of marijuana, just a tiny amount. When youre using swat teams to serve warrants, youre creating violence and confrontation where there was none before. Stossel police work is dangerous. They dont know what theyll face at the other side of the door. Re theyre just protecting themselves. If youre breaking into someones house inea the middle of the night, their first ticket is that another drug dealer is trying to rob them. Stossel swat team get protective equipment from the pentagon. It involved really odd stuff. Helicopters, airplanes. Bigticket items, but in many circles couldnta use. Its m6 days. And grenade launchers. Stossel some armored equipment is necessary. His team once had to borrow a garbage truck to try to rescue people that were wounded. We needed an armored car that day. Now, the pentagon gives away m raps. They use it because its free. Stossel in your town they got an mrap it happen. They needce that . Any arm or you can procure, especially free, its a good thing. Stossel local police get cash grants from the department of Homeland Security which they use to buy armored trucks. The bearcat 270 grand and the mraps drive it off the lot. Nt h all these equipment has a purpose . stossel the purpose is to protect the officer and make it clear to the bad guy that he faces overwhelming force. Fighting back would be futile. We just served a no knock search warrant in houses where we know people are armored. Robbery rape, et cetera. We wont knock on the door. When we hit the door, one of the main subjects stood up with a glock. They said to a grenade to distract him. He he fell over to the floor dropping the gun. We arent going after little johnny selling a little sack of weed. They rated the home of bob and andy hart. When my son and six grade he built a hydroponic. He wrote down his left with a small bag of merchandise. The county sheriff sent a raid team for a fullblown drug raid. We hear banging on the door. Reach out open the door. Immediately im on the ground face down handspe behind my head. Im staring at this guys boots. Everyone is yelling, are there children in the house . The police knew nothing about bobs work history. We have background checks for my job. They kept us under their arms for two and a half hours. F we didnt find out why they came to our house until a year later. Stossel all they were told there are narcotics in in this home and were going to find them. They gave them a receipt no items taken. Why the swat team . Ms one of the guys told us that marijuana seeds and stems had been pulled out of our trash. Neither bob and i used pot. The trash people are involved. The neighbors kids must be walking through and throwing stuff in our trash. Stossel it turns out what the police found in their trash was not marijuana its take away. I drink take away and brew it in big batches when im done with it, they did a field test on them. They had a positive reading for marijuana and that was enough to then raid our home. It wasnt until aenfter the home that police sent the tak tea leaves to a lab. Swat raids are sometimes needing, but 100 raids every day . Also did you know there are now Border Patrolr checkpoints inside america. I dont need reasonable suspicion. Thats the law,oi sir. No, its not. Thats next. Stossel if i drive across a us border, i know i have to stop at a patrol checkpoint. Imagine driving to a grocery store. Well, inside america and being stopped by the Border Patrol. What crime am i being charged with. Pastor Steven Anderson was stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint 60 miles from the border. What are you placing me under arrest for. Their police dog alerted them to something in their car. Glenn the dog never alerted to anything, he said. He wouldn t let them search their cars so officers break both windows and then taze him from two directions. Heres what he looked like later. On youtube you can see lots of confrontations like that because lots of americans are upsetca about being upset about being stopped not on the border, but miles away from the border. Our government did rule that Border Patrol may set up checkpoints within a reasonablehe distance of the border. Whats reasonable . They said that distance is 100 air miles from any external m boundary of the united states. Stossel 100 miles. Thats where most americans live. Twothirds of the people live in these spots. All of florida. More than half of california. All of mane. , all of new hampshire. All residents are suspects simply by virtue of living in southern arizona. Stossel america does need to police our border. Rick understands that. An air force pilot who served in iraq and afghanistan. Now, hes based in texas where he found he had tohe pass fou through checkpoints all the time. Theres no way tore leaves the border town without going to a checkpoint. The checkpoint he had to pass through mosthe often is 67 miles from the border. I started to feelth like i was asking to leave that town. Im just traveling in the united states. I havent crossed any borders. I didnt like that feeling. So he installed cameras in his car. Ed glenn because i wanted to prove the truth of defense. They wont answer any questions. Heres on the phone with a lawyer. As theyre now standinge around without telling me anything. The Supreme Court said that Border Patrolou agents at immigration checkpoints can conduct brief stops for the limited purpose of verifying residence status. They could not involve the searches of citizens and their vehicles. The person says yes, maam and they should be let go. According to the Supreme Court, yes. It maybe silly, but you cant set up a checkpoint for all manner of wrongdoing. Thats exactly what many do. Whats the reason you want to check my trunk . Your car is dirty. Here a Border Patrol agent inspects one of our cars. It was a peaceful little town. It was calming. There wasnt no problems. Stossel Big Government creates problem as the number of interior checkpoints has grown, more americans say this is destroying our town. Theres less and less tourists coming here. This woman had to close her business. Its sad. Economically this town depends on tourists and were not on the were in america. Stossel people say its like stossel people say its like apache helicopters overhead. Surveillance towers. Ei dozens of Border Patrol trucks crews their streets. Its a one block town. The border isnt even close to here. Imagine in order to take your kids to school, you had to answer to an armed federal agent. I dont need reasonable suspicion. Thats thede law. They might want to ask you about the medical history. On other days they might decide they want might decide they want glenn you cant get out on the road now if somebody doesnt s stop you. They think everybody out here is a criminal. These are the kind of experiences people are having on a daily basis and it flies into the face of what it means to live in a free society. Leave us alone. Just big brother. Big brother looking at us, you know. Am i being detained. So more americans are pushing back. Why am i being detained. James refused d to answer extra questions. Where are you coming from . Why . Why dont you pull over y . There . Why . Answer mydi question. Do you have a gun in the vehicle. They could have just said i dont have a weapon. Theyd asked him a series of questions that were none of their business and they didnt have authority to ask him. He asserted his rights. Which led to this. Get him out of the vehicle now. Why are you twisting my arm. Because youre not listening to me. He was pulled out of his karat gun point. Detained in handcuffs for an hourile agents tore apart his car. I bet the Border Patrol agents would say come on rick this is hardly a threat to your liberty. Just tell us where youre going. I answered 17 questions. I produced a military id, a drivers license and two passports. So if it was your job phone number a border guard and someone didnt want to answer questions, wouldnt you want to detain them. You might want to, but unless im suspicious because you wont answer questions. Lack of answering questions cant be usedis as a basis. This is a person who has done nothing wrong and finds himself surrounded by armed government agents with dogs. The Border Patrol would not respond to our questions about this. So congressman peter king defended the agents. I think of Border Patrol as Border Patrol. These are inlands. If theres reasonable cause to do it, you can do it. S when people come into this country legally they dont stand on the border, they keep going. If people arent immediately compliant theyll break a window. Theyll break a window. Im not aware of any significant abuses at all. If anything the complaints we get, theres not enough strict enforcement. Gh isnt there something unamerican about 100 miles from the border we live in a very upsetting world. Americans have the right to be free in their own country. Real freedom lies in theal thin space that separates an american citizen from an armed member of their government. That thin line keeps getting thinner because authorities keep inventing new tools. They use micro sensors to navigate and track targets. Stossel coming up, drones keep getting smaller and trickier. On. Stossel america locks up more of its people than any other country. One reason is mandatory sentences. Stossel mandatory minimum jail sentences why lorns spent more than a decade in jail. They were about to graduate from college when the fbi raided their home. They slammed my brother on the ground, put us on handcuffs and showed us a picture, do you know this guy . The brothers were arrested for cocaine conspiracy. But they found no property, no money, no drugs. Stossel no drugs . Never sold any drugs . No. The brothers denied they even used guns, but some dealers said they seen them dealing at a car repair shop. Why name you. I did legitimate repair on a car, the dealers by pointing to these two, reduced their sentences. They will lie just to make you look a horrible person. They made us look like some drug lords. Stossel mandatory minimums encourage crooks to implicate others. Then the prosecutor might lower your sentence. That gives me incentive to make stuff up. And people do. Snitch is not a bad word in my vocabulary. Thats a good word. You know, criminals, murderers, they dont deal with the choir boys. You can find that out if somebody is lying. Lisa became a prosecutor right after law school. Shes jailed even a few hit man. Most of you prosecutors like these mandatory minimums why . Its more control for the prosecutor. And less control for the drugs. The judges hands are tied. No matter what the unique circumstances of the crime or the victim or the defendant. Nothing matters. The judge cant do anything. You cant say this is nuts. They complain about this all the time. They apologize to defendants. They say im sorry i have to do this, but i cant do anything else. A judge apologized to scott earl. He met a woman in a bar. She was working for the cops. He didnt know at the time. He never sold any pills, but set up meetings where she could get pills. Introduce her to a supplier. For that he was given a 25 mandatory minimum sentence. The judge said, this punishment does not fit the crime. With great reluctance i will have to sentence the defendant to 25 years. Judges are you begging the legislatures to change the law. Harsh sentence and if you pled with the prosecutor before you got to this stage, you wouldnt be facing that. Prosecutors want to avoid long trials. It persuades people to plead guilty. I have had grown men on a drug bust just burst out in tears, weeping. Why . Mandatory minimums. If you plead guilty, you wont get the mandatory minimum, but if a defendant says, hey, look im not a drug trafficker. I want to tell a jury my side of the story. Prosecutors drop the hammer. Why would the prosecutor be a hard guy about it. They want to go to voters and say look at my conviction rate. Former john korman won his senate seat after bragging about being tough on the bad guys. Theyre the only people left to defend some states have tougher minimums than others. I work in florida. We have mandatory minimums for drug laws that are probably the worst in the country. Stossel the toughest in the country . The worst and the toughest. Stossel if youre caught with 22 pain pills without a prescription, you get an automatic three years in jail. Fortyfour pills seven years. Some of these laws feel like a panicked response to fear of drugs. A panicked response . I dont think so. Were talking about hardcore dealers here. When youre talking about someone going out and selling 22 pills. Thats not somebody using. Thats somebody selling. But the Pain Management institute said that could less than a week prescription. Theyre low level users. You have addicts who are being picked up and charged with prison. Like the garrison brothers. Though they werent drug users. They demanded a trial, but the jury believed the snitches. You got almost 20 years and the snitch . Under three years. The message is make something up about somebody. Exactly. Stossel if proponents are correct, we should two things, when theyre imposed the crime rate should go down. When theyre repealed the crime rate should go up. Michigan repealed theyve saved billions of dollars and the crime rate has fallen 20 percent. Stossel next, more drones are coming. Smaller, creepier big brother has new ways to watch. Thats next stossel what does privacy mean when those are things flying around . The personal drone is getting cheaper. It makes it easier to spy on y