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Do community college cops really need a SWAT team? Should hall monitors in middle school be next to acquire tactical gear?

From the Houston Chronicle we get this disturbing, bordering on ridiculous news:The Houston Community College Police Department is the subject of several investigations following the firing of at least three officers. Those officers and others still on the force also have raised questions about Police Chief Gregory Cunningham's qualifications for the job, as well as his decision to create a heavily armed tactical unit.There's no reason in the world that a community college police department needs its own SWAT team any more than do constables when larger, better trained and equipped agencies already have those resources. And the lack of professionalism demonstrated by firing one's internal critics demonstrates why I dislike the proliferation of small, specialty departments generally, much less their acquisition of military-style tools and tactics...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).