Comments on: BSU Coaches SWAT Exercise Video Disappears

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:02:45 +0000

PS: BSU sports is going to discover what a rare phenomenon Peterson was. This is a good thing though, cause now they need to focus on education again.

By: Interested Citizen

Interested Citizen — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:00:12 +0000

Is this yet just another reprehensible and very wasteful example of OVERPOLICING in my dear Gem of the Mountains???

Waste taxpayer dollars ONLY at your peril!!!

EDITOR NOTE–It didn’t work either. BSU still lost to Ole Miss.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:29:25 +0000

I’m pleased we have a chief who hears and reacts appropriately, even to those of us with tinfoil hats. I worry about his replacement:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/08/27/3343740/police-military-vehicles.html

By: erico49

erico49 — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:45:10 +0000

http://www.boiseweekly.com/CityDesk/archives/2014/08/26/boise-police-department-gives-mrap-swat-show-and-tell

what a joke.

By: Interested Citizen

Interested Citizen — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:40:11 +0000

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

I do not remember so many coppers with such low IQs trying to act so tough and menacing against such imaginary threats!!!!!

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:40:28 +0000

Zippo I am glad you know what you’re talking about because I think you may be the only one. The M-1 was the most revolutionary weapon of the time and an absolute game changer. Part of the expense is the fact they are built and maintained. You cut out the building and/or purchase and they become cheap, hence the acquiring of the MRAP. And the military doesn’t give stuff away because they don’t want it anymore, they do it to buy more stuff. Because our federal government doesn’t know how to save money and the departments want their budget to stay the same, they discard items and purchase more so as to spend every dollar a year in their budget.
I don’t know how much the oil changes and maintenance on the MRAP cost, but due to the little utilization it will receive I would guess it is much smaller than purhcasing 30k police cars, up armoring them, and then maintaing those.
Being a tax payer I would gladly have the department get a free vehicle then waste more money on cars. Also if something ever happens here like the notorious bank robberies in LA that started the whole rifle craze in law enforcement, then I would hope the police show up in an uparmored vehicle so me or my wife can hide behind when we are trying to make a withdrawl.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 22:39:27 +0000

Jake, Turn the football tapes off for a moment and pullback a bit… look at the big picture.

I was talking over your head… I know what I talk about.

I was drawing an analogy to the Army and their M-1 cost problems. A VERY expensive weapons program and wrong for current and expected future conflicts. (Which is why we’ve given so many to the Egyptian Army and the USMC… no one else wants them, even for free.)

Thus the analogy: BPD does not need the light armored vehicle otherwise known as MRAP because it’s the wrong tool for the job and it costs way more than several police cruisers to maintain. The army is giving the MRAP away for free because they are so useless other than on a mined road… and have dangerous handling qualities likely to cause accidental deaths on regular roads.

The BPD has a purpose built SWAT truck (or 2 or 3) which is a lot cheaper to care for and because it is based on a sensible mid-range truck chassis it fits the community better.

We need SWAT sometimes, but rarely. It has become thuggery out of control nationwide. The facts indicate this statement. Thus they teamed up with BSU coaches hoping the good wholesome reputation of the Blue & Orange would provide them cover.

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/14/10-facts-about-the-swatificati.html

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:35:03 +0000

Apparently Zippo either saw something in the video that no one else did, he has no idea what an M-1 tank is, or he simply likes to state random facts. I most definitely agree this was nothing but a PR stunt and a waste of city money, however at least get your facts straight. There is no tank in the video. Also an MRAP is not a tank. There is no offensive weapons as part of an MRAP, nor on whatever vehicle was in the video. Those machines are used to transport troops and yes you can put men with guns in it, however a tank is not a troop mover, it’s an offensive weapon used to take the fight to the bag guys. Before you try to incite riots with inflammatory words like “tank”, remember if you have no idea what you are talking about you will think a rubber bullet is an ear plug.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:27:43 +0000

Can we arrange for the mayor, team Dave and the city council to disappear?

By: Grumpy ole Guy

Grumpy ole Guy — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:09:36 +0000

United Dairymen of Idaho. AgGag Bill. SWAT training. Mystery disappearance of a video on YouTube. OH, golly gee, let’s start our own conspiracy theory right now.