Seeing law enforcement officers running around like mercenaries does not make me feel good. Thou shall be respectful of all black elders. So I simply nodded. Now, I think Pop was absolutely right. Some folks have long said it's actually just a war on drug users, but most of us simply went along with what we were told.
Drug dealers have plenty of firepower, so our police officers got more militaristic weapons.
Drug dealers frequently managed to dispose of their product by the time police got a legal warrant to search their homes, so now we have instances where police can enter your home without a warrant. This is not good. Frankly, these things remind me of stories my elderly relatives told me about the worst days of segregation, when a sheriff and his deputies could boldly enter black homes for the fun of it. Gosh, this sounds familiar. Imagine for a moment that you are sitting on your couch with your family.