Armed Dept. of Education SWAT team invades home

I find it amusing that you say I’m notably uninformed, then post something with such glaring inaccuracies.

Not all Federal law enforcement officers receive the same training, not even close. Many go to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Georgia, but their training can vary widely in length and quality, depending on the agency. Some agencies don’t even send their people to FLETC (FBI, VA Police).

Again, if you think that the Department of Education needs armed agents, and should be conducting dynamic raids on people who are in arrears with student loans, we have to agree to disagree.

It’s a recipe for disaster when *any* agency that primarily does investigations to get involved with actual police work. Look no further than Waco & Ruby Ridge, where Federal desk jockeys wanted to play with their toys, with predictably tragic results.

 

I'm a bit confused by your statement, Steve. He has clearly indicated that he doesn't know, or really care to know, what the US Department of Education uses its agents to investigate. His argument is that while literally every other federal agency also has federal agents, this one shouldn't because the best fake example of their work he can come up with is going after people who photocopy textbooks.

It's an uninformed opinion. And it's one that was immediately refuted by a copy and paste job from the DOE website.

Sorry, but being a cop doesn't mean that every pronouncement on the topic of any law enforcement issue anywhere in the country or world is gospel. Let alone that "being a cop" should not be a sufficient condition for being such an expert on the very broad topic of law enforcement. Size of department doesn't matter? Rank doesn't matter? Exposure to other agencies in a professional capacity doesn't matter? By this logic, a cop who spent an entire career in a one man department in rural New York has an equally authoritative view of the law enforcement world as someone who has worked in senior leadership for a heavily funded department like the NYPD.

It's kind of why we shouldn't just accept an appeal to authority at face value.