Well Blackwater has apparently been training police in American cities and towns for some time now. I don't know if this is old news or not I've been away from the internet for over a week due to the death of my Mother. I apologize if this topic has already been covered in other diaries.
I find it horrifying that these religious right-wing mercenaries are crusading in Muslim lands but I'm mad as hell that they are also training US Law Enforcement.
A number of the police departments that have been trained by Blackwater have abysmal civil rights and police brutality records, most notably the Chicago Police and Illinois State Police, both cited by former Illinois Governor George Ryan as being guilty of police misconduct in his decision to commute the death sentences of Illinois' death row inmates.
The training and potential political indoctrination of police officers by the extreme right-wing and proto-fascist Blackwater, coupled with the politicization of the Justice Department and U.S. courts, has the potential for the streets of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, and Washington, DC, as well as Chillicothe, Harvey Cedars, and Elmira to turn as bloody as the streets of Baghdad and Fallujah.
In my opinion the use of mercenaries under any circumstance is both morally and socially wrong but to use them to train our law enforcement officers is against everything this country once stood for. Sadly our nation is no longer a free country instead what we have now is a corrupt pathetic police state with both Tasers and Deadly "wrong door" Paramilitary Police Raids now commonplace in the USA. Hell the law enforcement corruption can't get any worse but the police brutality sure can we need to stop this nasty trend before it's too God damn late!
list of agencies that have used Blackwater for training:
- Iowa Department of Natural Resources
- Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff's Department
- Matthews, North Carolina Police
- Atlanta Police
- Chillicothe, Ohio Police
- Charleston, South Carolina Police
- Port Chester, NY Police
- Highland, Indiana Police
- Unalaska, Alaska Police
- Metropolitan Washington, DC Police
- Charlottesville, Virginia Police
- Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (Dulles and Reagan National Airports)
- St. Louis County Police (Missouri)
- Queen Anne's County, Maryland Police
- Prince George's County, Maryland Police
- FBI SWAT Team
- Gloucester Township, New Jersey Police
- Tempe, Arizona Police
- New York Police Department
- Yonkers, New York Police
- Fairfax County, Virginia Police
- Maplewood, New Jersey Police
- Gastonia, North Carolina Police
- Tampa Police
- U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- DeKalb County, Georgia Police
- Arlington County, Virginia Police
- Baltimore Police
- U.S. Coast Guard
- Suffolk, Virginia Police
- Franklin City, Virginia Police
- Milford, Delaware Police
- University of Texas Police
- Norfolk, Virginia Police
- Ottawa-Carleton, Canada Police
- San Bernardino County, California Sheriff
- Plattsburgh, New York Police
- Chicago Police Department
- Oregon State Police
- Los Angeles Police Department
- Tonawanda, New York Police
- Special Forces of Colombia
- Jacksonville, North Carolina Police
- Harvey Cedars, New Jersey Police
- Elmira, New York Police
- Department of Corrections, New Jersey
- Lexington, Kentucky Police
- Willimantic, Connecticut Police
- Georgia Department of Law Enforcement
- City of Fairfax, Virginia Police
- Alexandria, Virginia Police Special Operations
- Illinois State Police
- Dallas, Texas Police
- Hamilton, Ohio Police
- Morganton, North Carolina Police