Walton County Sheriff’s Office Mike Adkinson states that their department just got a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle (MRAP) for “an insurance policy,” in order to keep deputies safe in dangerous situations – citing examples past violence in the country.
However one journalist, Justin King, calls out Adkinson’s claims of violence as over exaggerated, instead stating that the county is virtually crime free.
Walton County Sheriff’s Officer Mike Adkinson denied that the purchase of the vehicle was an attempt to militarize the police department, adding that he wouldn’t let public opinion get in the way of the “safety” of his colleagues.
“This is not the federal government intruding on your civil liberties,” wrote Adkinson in a Facebook post. “Would you really want them sent into harm’s way without the best protection available, simply because the military originally purchased this vehicle?”
This didn’t stop residents expressing their anger at the decision to buy the vehicle, with one commenting that the purchase represented “an offensive intimidation method used to controll [sic] and strike fear.”
Another respondent agreed, remarking, “This doesn’t make the officers safer. All studies show that the more militarized a department becomes, the more often officers get hurt. This is Walton County, Florida, not Iraq, not Afghanistan.”
As Justin King points out, despite Adkinson’s effort to justify the purchase by pointing to examples where cops have had to deal with suspects barricaded inside their homes, Walton is such a peaceful and virtually crime free neighborhood that it was used to represent an idyllic American town in the 1998 movie The Truman Show.
“Walton County is a part of Florida that is so crime free you can leave your doors unlocked. When Hollywood location scouts were looking for a community so perfect that it appeared to be fake, they came to Walton County. The Truman Show, staring Jim Carey, was filmed on location in a small Walton County community,” writes King, accusing the Sheriff’s department of abandoning common sense by purchasing the vehicle and pointing out that it is only likely to spur additional violence.
“This vehicle is an implement of war. It has no place in this county. The decision to bring this to a small community will only increase violence against citizens by creating a combat mindset in deputies. This violence will be returned, and deputies will face violence on a level not seen before in Walton County,” writes King.
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT,S FOR !
They are getting ready for martial law in this country don’t believe what believe what you see this country is about to go into a civil war one that people want to ignore is about to happen and the billionaires are the ones who are setting it up don’t believe me check out Obama who is trying to change the law so he can run a third term believe that
can’t say their not prepared.
PEACE OFFICERS or LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS?
The Police Depts in OUR Communities have gone from ‘Peace Officers” to “Law Enforcement Officers,” the same Roll They Held in Nazi Germany…Time to Ask We the People in our Communities which roll We want them to Play in OUR Lives?…
I would Vote for PEACE OFFICERS…Here is the way for US to Vote on Issues like Our Police Dept and other Important Issues in Our Lives..check out the plan at http://www.onevoicenow.org/video
Congressman Jesse Ventura has found three prisons that are ready for the Homeland Security to use when all the rioting begins they 100,000’s of plastic coffins that would hold up to 3 to 4 people piled on top of each other this will be for population control better not give up your guns yet they are trying so hard to take away your protection, other countries have proven that without guns your country will fall to dictatorship believe that
Next time some idiot decides to start shooting incident citizens let me know which car lot LEO’s can go and buy one. Maybe we should send some of you nay sayers in with your f150 and see how long you last with rounds bouncing off your 6. I know what it’s like to walk around with missing parts and lead due to the lack of proper equipment. Do you.
http://americanoverlook.com/president-obama-for-a-third-term/107028?article=1208
Can they really be this ignorant?
The fact they’re accepting them is even more alarming…..and then listen to these retards try an justify it
This past insanity a while ago
http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=UopEKjXElD5DeVIXXOnXZw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9Sxr10nkpio%26feature%3Dshare