The private spies and police. They started looking at us. Policing america. Wheres the line between security and liberty. I want the police to be better armed than the bad guys. Today, what does that mean . More than 100 square blocks were decimated by fire and lo looters. After the los angeles race riot is in the 60s, some cities created heavily armed assault teams named a sw. A. T. For special weapons and tactics. For years they were called out only in emergencies, like a riot or bank robbery where hostages were taken. Their use has increased from one raid a day to today, maybe 100 raids everyday. Including case is where have to wonder, why call out the s. W. A. T. Team . Sn would anybody be afraid ofe if i was trying to menace you in some way . Joe is a standup comic. The 53 inch man caught the attention of an s. W. A. T. Team in new york city. Why . I had a really mind numbingly Bad Customer Service at the apple store. I went home and did what we all do. I bitched about it on facebook. I thought i was funny. Joe phrased it like i will walk into an apple star with an armed carbon semiautomatic weapon. Pointing round after round into one of those smug fruity con seearnings. People were responding it was obviously from fight club. I thought i was lit aerary until 90 minutes later the s. W. A. T. Team were there. Everyone has their guns drawn. Was that necessary . If they took 90 seconds to google me they would have seen im teaching a yoga class in an hour. I dont have a Police Record or violent history. His local paper suggested joe had been stupid. Who doesnt vent on the internet. I never thought i could quote a movie, even a movie Like Fight Club and bring an s. W. A. T. Team to my house. If i didnt answer the door with a sense of humor, who knows what could have happened. New york citys police force would not talk to us about their raid. Others like talking about what they do. I have participated in and planned pentagon ene ened appro high risk operations. We are not soldiers, we dont think were soldiers, were not fighting a war against an enemy. Were trying to help people. Police department, search warrant. He say his team usually kn k knocks first and depending on circumstances it was 10 seconds or a minute before breaking down the door. Were not liable for any damage we do to peoples property. We try to limit it and my guys will try to patch up the best we can the door. The suspense of barging into homes makes good tv. There are several s. W. A. T. Team reality shows. Before we did that show, kids would see us in the neighborhood and run from us. After that show, kids would run up to us and get in this van and want to check things out. While Sergeant Hughes doesnt like waking suspects up in the mid of oh the night. Others do. We want to win without a fight. Steve is a 25 year veteran of the Dallas Police department. If i have a gun at home and someone is banging at my door and sweeping, im more like to pick up my gun and shoot. When you knock and announce, you announce police. Just because the guy says police, doesnt mean he is police. A great point. Just hear bangbang. Scary. Its supposed to be scary. We use that to gain a tactical advantage. And get them before they can think . Exactly right. It doesnt get used too often today . Ive been involved in over 1,000 warrants in operations, i cant think of any time it hasnt been prudent to use s. W. A. T. Weve become so comfortable using s. W. A. T. As a first report instead of last. This man says the police are turning into warrior cops and s. W. A. T. Teams are greatly overused and today they used s. W. A. T. Teams to radio truck stops that have video poker machi machines, barber shops, organic farm and frat house said to have underaged drinking and this raided people accused of credit card fraud. Using this type of force and violence on people suspected not violent is a wildly d disproportionate use of force. Arizona police thought someone in this house might be part of a family drug ring. Inside with his wife and child was an exmarine who completed two tours in iraq and then worked in a local copper mine. He had just gone to bed after his 12 hour shift. They take the door down with the battering ram. His son is in the house and hes in the house and he grabs his military weapon and one officer tripped and fired his gun and one mistook it for him firing at them and they opened fire. 71 shots. They killed jose. His gun was still on safety. Inside the house, officers found no gun or illegal weapons. Cannot fault an officer for shooting a person who raises a gun at them. S. W. A. T. Veteran, steve ives teaches detectives and says try a ruiz instead of a raid. We would dress up in u. P. S. Teams and knock on the door. Package at the door comes, fine. Search warrant, columbia police, search warrant when you burst into peoples ho homes, nasty things do happen. This s. W. A. T. Team believes theres a large supply of marijuana here. You shot my dog you shot my dog the Police Posted this video on the web an it went viral. They rush in the house, shoot the dog, terrify the kid. The video speaks for itself. Theyre not pulling hair, not swearing, not knocking people on their face, theyre walking through the house, police with a search warrant, police with a search warrant. The pitbull is attempting to bite a police officer. I think they have Legal Authority to stop the dog from biting them. I know they shot the pitbull because the pitbull was reportedly a threat. Aeral mags strait found the officers did nothing wrong in that case. Nothing wrong even though they didnt find that large supply of marijuana, just a tiny amount. When youre using s. W. A. T. Teams to serve warrants on people suspected of drunk times you are creating violence where there was none before. Police work is dangerous. They dont know whats on the other side of the door. They want to make sure its over quick ily. If youre breaking into someones house in the mid of the night, their concern is another drug dealer is trying to rip them off. Police want protection and the pentagon has given them all kinds of things. In the early days it involved odd stuff, helicopters, big ticket items an agency couldnt afford and couldnt use. Then it became. M sen as and grenade laun launchers and tank carriers, stuff used on a battlefield. Now, president obama put limits on it but he says other equipment is necessary. His team used a garbage truck to try to rescue people wounded. We needed an armored truck that day and didnt have one. Now, they give away the m rack. It is an armored car. Your Sheriffs Office got an mwrap. Any armor you kcan get is a good thing. Im in favor of getting it and not needing it instead of ne needing it and not having it. They get cash grants they used to buy this armored truck. Its 170 grand and the mraps just drive it off the lot. All this equipment has a purpose. The purpose is to protect the officer and make it clear to the bad guy that he face overwhe overwhelming force, that fight back would be futile. Show me your hands. We just served a search warrant where people are armed, know their criminal history, robbery and rape, we wont knock on the door. When we opened the door, one of the subjects stood up with a glock handgun. They tossed a flash grenade. Before he could get the gun, my guys were on top of him. We are not going after johnny selling a quarter sack of weed from his grandmas house. Sometimes they raid people who didnt even do that. They raided the home of this couple former cia employee. When my son was in sixth grade we built a hydraponic garden in the basement. A Police Officers spotted them leaving and wrote down his license number and said he left with a small bag of merchandise. The sheriffs county sends a full force. Theyre banging at 7 30 on the morning on our door. Im face down hands over my head, staring it a this guys boots and over me with an assault rifle. They said are there children in this house. They knew nothing about their work history. We held top secret security clearances for our jobs. And they kept us under armed guard while they searched every square inch of our house. We didnt know why they came until later. They must have told you. All they told you was we know there are narcotics in this home and we will find them. They even gave a receipt, no items taken. One of the guys told us marijuana seeds and stems had been pulled out of our trash. Neither bob or i had ever used pot. Then our minds go crazy, the trash people must nvolved or neighbors kids must be putting stuff in our trash. It undturn s out it was not marijuana, high quality tea. I drink expensive loose tea and when done throw it in the trash. Police found it and did a re reading. They found it positive for marijuana and raided the home. It wasnt until after that they sent the tea leaves to the lab. The lab came back, said it doesnt look like pot, doesnt test positive for pot. Leaves and stems. I dont know were guilty of anything but drinking tea. Sometimes s. W. A. T. Raids are needed but 100 raids everyday . Also, did you know there are now border checkpoints well inside america. We dont need reasonable dentures are very different to real teeth. Theyre about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. Polident kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. So dentures are cleaner, fresher, and brighter polident. If i drive across a u. S. Border, i know i have to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint. Imagine driving to the Grocery Store inside america and being stopped by the Border Patrol. What crime am i being charged with . Pastor Steven Anderson was just stopped at Border Patrol checkpoint 60 miles from the mexican border. What are you placing me under arrest for . The officers say the police dog alerted them to something in his car. Anderson says the dog never alerted to anything. He wouldnt let them search his car so officers break both windows and then tased him from two directions [ screaming ] heres what he looked like later. On youtube, you can see lots of confrontations like that because lots of americans are 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 reasonable distance of the border. Whats reasonable . They said that distance is 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States. 100 miles. Thats where most americans live. Twothirds of the people live in these spots, its entire stat, all of florida, more than half of california, all of maine, all of new hampshire. Agents tell people that all residents are suspect simply by virtue of living in southern arizona. America does need to police our border. Rick understands that. Hes an air force pilot that served in iraq and afghanistan. Now, hes based in texas where he found he had to pass through checkpoints all the time. Theres no way to leave the border town without going through a checkpoint. The checkpoint he had to pass through most often is 67 miles from the border. I started to feel like i was asking ter mission to leave that town. Im just traveling in the United States and i havent crossed any borders and i didnt really like that feeling. He installed cameras in his car. I wanted to be able to prove the truth of events. Im asking if im preto go and if theyre going to detain me. Here, hes on the phone with a lawyer. Theyre standing around and not telling me. The fert courts said they can conduct brief stops for the limited purpose of verifying residence status. They could not involved the searches of individuals or interior. If the person says, yes, i am, they should be let go. According to the supreme court, yes. That may be silly. The guy could just lie. It may be silly but you cant set up a fishing expedition. Whats the reason to want to check my trunk . Just, 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. 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 border, were in america. People here say its like living in occupied territory. Apache helicopters overhead. Surveillance towers, dozens of Border Patrol trucks cruise their street. Its a one block town and the borders not even close to here. Imagine living in a small town where in order to go to work or take your kids to school, everyday you had to answer to an armed federal agent at a checkpoint. I dont need reasonable suspicion. Thats the law, sir. No, its not. They might want to ask you about your medical history, where youre coming from. Is that a toolbox or something . On other days they may decide they want to search your car. You cant hardly get out on the road somebody doesnt stop you. They think everybody out here is a criminal. These are the kind of experiences real people are having on a daily basis at checkpoints and fundamentally fly in the face of what it means to live in a free society, where you dont have to answer to federal agents when youre going about your daily business. Leave us alone, just big brother, looking at us, you kno know. Am i being detained . More americans are pushing back. Why am i being detained, agent gilmore. Arizona photographer, james for ray refused to answer extra questi questions. Where are you coming from . Why . Well, why dont you pull over there . Why . Because im sending you over there. Answer my question. Do you have a gun in the vehicle . They could have just asked him do you have a gun . He asserted his rights. Which led to this. Open the door and get him out of the vehicle now. Why are you twisting my arm . Because youre not listening to what im asking. I am [ bleep ] taser him. He was put in handcuffs for an hour and half while they tour apart his car. They found no contraband. He says its wrong hes asked where are you going in his own country. Roll down your window, is that as far as it will go . I bet the Border Patrol agents will say, come on, just tell us where youre going . I answered 17 questions and produced a military it and two passports. If it was your job to be a border job and somebody wouldnt answer questions, wouldnt you want to detain them . You might want to. But unless you have reasonable suspicion for a crime . Im suspicious because he wont answer questions. Lack of cooperation cannot be used as a basis for reasonable suspicion. This is a person having to stop in the middle of the road, whos done nothing wrong and found himself surrounded by armed government agents with dog dogs. The Border Patrol would not respond to our questions about this. So congressman peter king defended the agency. I think a Border Patrol as Border Patrol. These are inland. It is a reasonable course, you can do it. We do have when people come into this country illegally, they dont stay on the border, they keep going. If people arent immediately compliant, theyll break a window, people have been tased . I am not aware of any significant abuses at all. Im on the Homeland Security company. If anything the complaints we get not enough strict enforcement. Isnt there something unamerican about 100 miles from the border american citizens having to prove were in america to drive to theGrocery Store . We live in a very scary world. Americans have the freedom to drive in their own country. Real freedom lies in the thin space that separates an american citizen from the armed member of their government. That thin line keeps getting thinner because authorities keep on inventing new tools. Movs use microsensing technologies to track targets. Coming america locks up more of its people than any other country. One reason is mandatory sentences. Mandatory minimum jail sentences are why lawrence and lamont garrison spent more than a decade in jail. They were about to graduate from college when the fbi raided their home. They slammed me on the ground and my brother in ground and put us in handcuffs and showed me a picture, do you know this guy . He fixed our car. The brothers were arrested for cocaine conspiracy. They found no property, no money, no drugs. No drugs . Never sold any drugs . Nope. The brothers denied theyd even used ug but some dealers claimed they had seen them. Why name you . I did business legitimate repairing a car. They reduced their sentences for the witnesses. This is the snitch they made us look like some type of drug lord. Why would they do that . Because mandatory minimums encourage crooks to implicate others. Then the prosecutor might lower your sentence. That gives me an incentive to make stuff up. Absolutely. People do. A perfect example, perfect situation for someone to get themselves out of trouble. Snitch is not a bad word in my volcano, a good word. Criminals, murderers, they dont deal with choir boys. They can make something up. You can find that out when somebody is lying. She became a prosecutor right after law school. She has jailed smugglers and mandatory hit men. Most of you like these mandatory minimum, why . Its more control for a prosecutor. And less control for a judge. The judges hands are completely tied no matter the sirkceds of the crime or victim or defendant, nothing matters. The judge cant do anything . He cant say this is nuts . No. They complain about this all the time. They apologize to defendants and say, im sorry i have to do this but i cant do anything else. A judge apologized to scott earl. After earl had back surgery he got addicted to painkillers and then met a woman in a bar. He ke he she kept asking him for pills. He resisted her for a while. And she set up meetings and for that he was charged and given a 25 year mandatory minimum sentence. In the judges apology said this punishmen does not fit the crime. Wi great reluctance i will have to sentence the defendant to 25 years. Judges are begging the legislature to change this law. Its a harsh sentence and sometimes what mandatory mini m minimums need. And if he pled with the prosecutor before this stage he wouldnt have been facing that. Prosecutors want to avoid time consuming crimes. The threat of long jail time persuades accused people to plead guilty. Have had grown men on a drug bust just burst out in tears we weeping. Why . Mandatory minimums. If you plead guilty you wont get the man