http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/16/pre-crime-policing/singlepage
I strongly urge you to read this and then ask what's wrong with this picture.
People are killed everyday by others that have made KNOWN their intentions to harm them. When these aggressors have been reported to the cops, the cops say NOTHING can be done by them until a crime has been committed.
This is NOT a voluntary surrender, had he not come out, He would have died.
FOR DOING NOTHING WRONG, but because "THE THOUGHT POLICE" thought he might.
Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed
"They woke me up with a phone call at about 5:50 in the morning," Pyles told me in a phone interview Friday. "I looked out the window and saw the SWAT team pointing their guns at my house. The officer on the phone told me to turn myself in. I told them I would, on three conditions: I would not be handcuffed. I would not be taken off my property. And I would not be forced to get a mental health evaluation. He agreed. The second I stepped outside, they jumped me. Then they handcuffed me, took me off my property, and took me to get a mental health evaluation."
By noon the same day, Pyles had already been released from the Rogue Valley Medical Center with a clean bill of mental health. Four days later the Medford Police Department returned Pyle’s guns, despite telling him earlier in the week—falsely—that he'd need to undergo a second background check before he could get them back. On Friday the Medford Police Department put out a second press release, this time announcing that the agency had returned the "disgruntled" worker's guns, and "now considers this matter closed.
