WTH!! Mr. control freak policeman, your rules have been in existence for over 200 years. It's called the 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the US and it's to be based on probable cause. Don't like it, get another job.

The anti-gunners will never get it. Gun possession does not lead to violence. The culture, absence of two-parent homes, lack of education, lack of economic opportunity propel these kids toward violence. If their guns were confiscated, then switch blades, baseball bats, and two-by-fours would be used instead.

Some (OK, many) years back I was a teenage boy visiting in a couple of towns over, on the prowl for teenage girls. I was pulled over by one of the local cops on the pretext that I had a burnt-out taillight (I did) but mostly because I had Allamakee county plates and was driving around in Howard county.

In other words, the local cop saw a car and a kid he didn't recognize, so he pulled me over to find out what I was up to.

In the course of the stop he asked if he could take a look in my trunk. I said "No."

"Have you got something in there you don't want me to find?"

"No."

"Then why don't you want me to look?"

"Because I don't have to. If you think I'm doing something illegal, arrest me."

He wrote me a citation from my burnt-out taillight and told me in no uncertain terms to get out of town. He saw me driving around later that night, still in his town, even made eye contact - and he did nothing. He knew he couldn't make me leave town, and he knew I knew it.

If I could stand up to a small-town jumped-up Barney Fife at seventeen, the people of Beloit sure as hell should stand up to the statist assholes who are proposing to search their homes without cause. This isn't Russia. This isn't China. We still have a Fourth Amendment.

I commented to this on the NRA's FB page. A big fat IT'S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS how many and of what type firearms I own.

I think an interesting response would be:

"I am more than happy to let you know how many firearms I own and of which types, and to that end, I will be open carrying each at any possible convenience.
Thank you."

Just wait until they invite you to accuse your neighbors of having an unregistered gun...

This is a policy that can not end well.

Is this Jacobs out of his mind? He needs to go to some OTHER country without this thing called the Constitution. Did he somehow skip Civics in High School? Lie through the psych eval for becoming a cop? Brainwashed to be a libtard puppet?

Cops like him are DANGEROUS. That he's the Chief of Police is downright SCARY. I wouldn't go within 100 MILES of a place where the cops are run by a anti-American Anti-constitution-honoring Oath-breaking psycho.

This police chief is a very stupid man. He should be relieved of his job, i.e. fired.

Gee maybe they can publish the results in the paper so the looters know where to do their xmas shopping.
NO F*****G WAY!

I think they are aiming at parents who are afraid that their kids have acquired a fire arm and want the police to handle it rather having than confronting a gun toting teen themselves. I am ONLY explaining what I think the intent is! Never volunteer to a search.

I would like to join or start a petition to the Beloit police department, asking them to volunteer to be de-Nazified.

"He nevertheless hopes the program will encourage people to think about gun violence as an infectious disease like Ebola, and a home inspection like a vaccine to help build up the city's immune system." - Makes me want to punch him in the face.

The police asking for volunteers to have their homes searched? What can this mean? Well, it has to be one or more of the following:
The police are incredibly arrogant.
The police are incredibly stupid.
The residents are incredibly stupid.
Any combination of the above.
But any rational resident will simply say, "What? are you crazy? Get lost."

Even if we take the request at face value, law-abiding residents will know more about finding hidden guns in their own homes than an officer. People hiding guns will not volunteer. So it makes no sense. Maybe the police chief felt pressure to do _something_ in response to the shootings, even if it sounds stupid.

Can I call the police to come and search my house for those keys I lost some years ago? I'm also missing some other things like a pair of glasses, and some fishing gear.

Can I have them search my neighbors house to see if he's got my missing fishing gear?

A long, long, time ago I search my 14 year olds room and found a bag full of Mercedes hood ornaments. That was just before my sister in law turned me in to CPS. I apologize for him if you were ever missing one. Thank God, he got over it.

The rational being used is teenagers are obtaining guns that their parents don’t know about. They put out a few factual stories with the public request to make the connection. It’s like telling parents they are responsible for knowing whether or not their children are on drugs by searching their children's room, but, in this instance, the search will be conducted by authorities offering their ‘police’ expertise to do the job for the parent. The NRA and gun advocates better very careful how they frame their argument against this offer because it could backfire.
This was a dangerously clever way to get around ‘probable cause’; they are appealing to a parent’s concern over their children’s safety.

The heading to this thread just begs to be in the chapter in AS on "The Sanction of the Victim".

But he's "asking" politely - this is a kindler, gentler Police State.

I must still be having nightmares. When will I be able to wake up and live again? I got a Nam comrade that lives in Beloit, I'll send him the link.

Now that is really dumb!

What I like is the pronouncement of “Pretty much all those kids and young men just need to be is educated [the ones involved in violent acts]. Ummm, I know it's hard to get an education at a public school, but it can be done - but the student has to be involved somewhere in the process.
thus, young men = thugs

>[Jacobs] said that there’s also a chance they’ll find guns linked to crimes... “That's really what we're looking for,” he said. “Maybe we'll find a toy gun that's been altered by a youngster in the house — and we know the tragedies that can occur there on occasion.”

I'll bet he and the entire police department are just salivating over the prospect of finding a gun linked to a crime in someone's house. Asset Forfeiture! Woot! Come on baby, Beloit PD needs a new margarita machine...

Statistically swimming pools are responsible for 52 times as many accidental deaths to children than guns... Maybe this police chief is sharp enough to find the swimming pools... but I doubt it.

this is like volunteering to have a body cavity search
for drugs, just for fun. . what kind of perversion can
come up with stuff like this??? -- j