Dear Concord City Council & Concord PD,
I understand that your Police Department has requested grant from the Department of Homeland Security to recive a BEARCAT truck made by Lenco. In Section B of the grant application, you state, “Groups such as the Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters and Occupy New Hampshire are active and present daily challenges.” In an interview with The Union Leader, Chief Duval attempted to explain away the statement by saying it’s not so much organized groups that concern police, instead it’s “fringe people who attach themselves to these groups” that are a potential risk.
The Washington Post reports, “New Hampshire is one of 15 states and territories that the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. intelligence agencies assess as having no specific foreign or domestic terrorism threat; is one of 15 states that have had no terrorism convictions since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Justice Department; and is one of 18 states that have no metropolitan area that has been designated by the federal government as ‘high-threat, high-density’ with regard to acts of terrorism.”
I would to remind the City Council of the many dangerous individuals who affiliate themselves, not with the Free State Project, Occupy NH or any group of supposedly “sovereign citizens”; rather I would like to remind this Council of the dangerous individuals affiliated a group known as law enforcement. I know that whenever one, two or twelve law enforcement officers are found to have committed horrible acts of violence, we are told these are simply actions of a “few bad apples.”
On July 11, a Staten Island Police Officer was arrested for attempting to rape a 16-year-old on July 4 at his home.
A former Philadelphia police officer, who was praised for his bravery, is behind bars accused of raping two women at gunpoint.
A police officer in Delaware County is being accused of trying to force women to have sex with him in the back seat of his police cruiser.
Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Miami Regional Operations Center, arrested of German Bosque on charges of kidnapping. Bosque illegally handcuffed and detained the victim at the Opa-Locka Police Station after he tried to file a complaint. Earlier the same day, Bosque allegedly punched the victim while responding to a domestic call.
“Cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle was convicted by a federal jury found of conspiring to kidnap women, then cook, kill and eat them.
There are countless other stories of cops, both on duty and off, who have committed heinous acts. Countless stories of police officers killing the pets of innocent individuals. There are countless stories of police raiding the wrong home, often times killing an innocent home owner, and also their beloved pets.
Whenever a police officer commits a horrible act against another individual or their pet, we are told you can’t judge all cops because of a few bad apples.
With that in mind, I must ask: why is it that the public image of law enforcement is supposed to be immune from judgment because the corrupt cops are “just a few bad apples” yet the public image of peaceful individuals can be tarnished by government agents by simply stating that they “may pose a threat” without any evidence?
I would like to close by saying that IF the Concord PD receives this BEARCAT from the DHS, that I believe every man, woman and child will be less safe, and should be allowed to obtain their own armored personnel carriers in order to protect themselves from the dangers of law enforcement.
In Peace, Freedom, Love & Liberty,
Darryl W. Perry