Regular Patrol Cops To Get “Ballistic Shields” In Florida

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Equipment normally used in SWAT raids

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Regular patrol officers in Florida are to be provided with bullet-proof ballistic shields in another sign of how police departments are preparing for violence and civil unrest in America.

“Saxon Security and its partner LCOA Defense have been named suppliers to the St. Petersburg (Florida) police department for new ballistic shields for general patrol officers,” reports BusinessWire. 45 ballistic shields will be provided to routine beat cops.

The video above shows the Deadstop Ballistic Shield repelling bullets. The clip displays the use of the shield in SWAT-style scenarios but now regular beat officers will also carry it while on patrol.

LCOA’s website also clearly places the use of the shield in the context of SWAT operations, not day to day patrols.

“DeadStop® Shields provide protection for a tactical squad in a live fire scenario. Developed in concert with US SWAT teams, our shields provide expected coverage at a surprising net weight,” states the promo text.

Arming general patrol officers with bullet and projectile-repellent shields is another indication that law enforcement bodies across the country are preparing for potential civil dislocation.

The federal government is also making similar preparations. Back in March, the Department of Homeland Security awarded defense contractor ATK a deal to provide the DHS with 450 million rounds of bullets over a five year period.

The DHS has also recently purchased a number of bullet-proof checkpoint booths that include ‘stop and go’ lights.

  • A d v e r t i s e m e n t

With forecasters predicting violent unrest later this year as a result of a deepening economic crisis, police bodies like the NYPD have held “mobilization exercises” to train police to prepare for civil unrest in the United States.

In August last year, the NYPD Disorder Control Unit brought together police from all five of the city’s boroughs to rehearse what the response would be “should out-of-control riots break out here”.

A report produced by the U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Institute in 2008 warned that the United States may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises which it termed “strategic shock.”

“Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security,” stated the report, authored by [Ret.] Lt. Col. Nathan Freir, adding that the military may be needed to quell “purposeful domestic resistance”.

The video below shows police using the Deadstop ballistic shield as part of SWAT training. Now regular patrol officers in Florida will have this same tool.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

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35 Responses to “Regular Patrol Cops To Get “Ballistic Shields” In Florida”

  1. Most of these shields are level 111A and will not stop rifle rounds. The level 3+ and 4 are made to withstand rifle rounds but are incredibly expensive and more than likely the shields described here are 22 plus layers of kevlar and are meant only to deal with up to a .44 magnum pistol round. 30-06 WILL GO STRAIGHT THROUGH IT.

    bkr360 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 7:54 am

    I guess I will aim low towards there feet. It will be hard to fight when you can not walk.

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 8:08 am

    No doubt, and people need to start buying their own armor while they still can. It’s often overlooked in favor of more bullets and weapons, but may end up being the deciding factor in living or dying.

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:09 am

    THESE PEOPLE ALL WERE TAUGHT THAT POLICE STATES AND TOTALITARIAN STATES ARE WRONG ……IN SCHOOL.

    HAVE NO MERCY ON THESE TRAITORS WHEN SHTF, I WONT.

    FREE COUNTRY MY ASS.

    Quantummonkeybutt Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:12 am

    “…It will be hard to fight when you can not walk.”

    I Guess I See Why The ‘Elite’ Scum Are Scared Now Of Their Own Creation, And Launching Of The ‘Global Pandemic Mutated Ebola Virus Bio-Weapon’ May Be On Hold, Temporarily…

    But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, Monkey Boy…And Keep A Bucket Handy.

    SATAN (Along With His WHORE, ‘LUCIFER’) Thinks He’s Got Everything Under Control, But The Whole Of Humanity’s (Fallen Angels) Suffering Is About To Blow Up Right In His Face…Literally.

    (www.) youtube.com/watch?v=czyfmemWYok
    (NUCLEAR BLAST COMPILATION)

    QMB
    boom!

    Not a Drill! Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:30 am

    If we wait awhile. there will be enough of this stuff laying on the ground and in tenement building hallways to pick up.

    Vic Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 8:14 am

    what can the sheilds do agains’t thousands of bees let loose?you want to see people running for safety?

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:10 am

    MAN R U AN IDIOT OR WHAT ?

    detinu Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:02 am

    I’m just wondering if these ballistic shields/vests are giving police a false sense of security, because…in a civil war scenario…they have a lot to be desired.

    For example, while these limited protective shields have an important use in urban areas against crowds that might be armed with pistols, they’re not much good when it comes to roof top snipers armed with rifles, which would be in abundance in any city.

    Too, in the event of large scale civil hostilities the main threat to police would be in becoming totally and completely overwhelmed by mobs of tens of thousands of combatants who would wrest their weapons from them.

    DHS and the police forces around the country can buy all the ammo they can shoot and manufacture all the ballistic vests they can use, but nothing will protect them from raging mobs that would literally stampede them into oblivion by sheer numbers alone.

    Don’t let the government intimidate you with all these press releases on the utilization of drones, ballistic shields, APC’s or what have you, because they’re useless against millions of people who decide they’re going to take matters into their own hands.

    The police are effective so long as we allow them to be. The minute they decide to oppress us, enslave us or put us down through naked force, that will signal the beginning of their inglorius end.

    As long as there is a second amendment this government and this country is still ours and does not belong to a few miscreants who think they can rule over us.

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:11 am

    A 2 WAY SNIPE DEFEATS THIS, WHEN 1 POPS THEM FROM THE FRONT, THE OTHER GETS THEM FROM THE REAR.

    BOTH WITHDRAW TO SAFETY AND LEAVE THE BASTARD SQUIRMING IN HIS OWN BLOOD.

    a-salty-dog Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:23 am

    Will Level 111A stop a Taurus Model 941 5 inch barreled.22 Magnum Revolver?

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:30 am

    yes

    a-salty-dog Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:30 am

    or even the Ruger 17 MkIII HM2

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:37 am

    Rifle rounds will penetrate level 111a but to make sure I’d use .308 or 30-06 because you never know.

    a-salty-dog Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:12 am

    The Taurus .17 HMR Tracker Revolver with Hornady seventeen grain V-Max bullet averaged 2168 ft/s or 650m/s. The Taurus Model 951 5 in barreled will get around 1550 ft/s and the Ruger 17 Mk111 HA2 around 1800 ft/s. Level 111A doesn’t seem to like anything over 1400 ft/s

    thefiringline. com/forums/showthread.php?t=223498

    I do believe that there potentially is pistol ammunition out there i.e. smaller calibre, high balistic velocity (long barreled pistols) that will punch neat little holes through soft 111A 20+ layers of kevlar.

    DarinGod Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:11 am

    It’s only a matter of time before we have to fight these people. They are arming for a complete takeover.

    We have all been betrayed. So many Americans will stand for the system, until it literally hurts them.

    I’m scared, but its only right to be a little scared. Its not everyday the person supposed to protect you, ends up killing us all.

    Not a Drill! Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:32 am

    I doubt if they will stop a 7.62×39 or 5.56.

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 10:47 am

    a-salty-dog I think you could be correct but I am not going to bet my life on a pistol. They’ll get my greatest firepower first. Alot of times too they can attach level 3 or 4 rifle plates to the back of these shields just as I have put these plates in my own level 3a vest. It works well and a trauma plate is needed also in a vest configured this way.

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 11:38 am

    Given the fact that they can attach rifle plates, I agree with bkr360, and will target an unprotected/underprotected area first. God help us if this shit ever goes down, but I truly believe it will soon. I don’t care who’s trying to come storming into my home, I will defend it.

    benth163 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 11:48 am

    A 7.62 is a 308 and with solid jacketed slugs will go through those vests and shields, but maybe not at the same time. I believe it is Hornady that makes a solid copper alloy slug that is unbelievable. Check it out on Cabella’s site.

  2. “With forecasters predicting violent unrest later this year as a result of a deepening economic crisis…”

    I don’t agree. This is an election year so the party is on. It will be after the fake election then they will raise your taxes and tolls.

    I think these shields are the result of extra money they had in their budget that they had to spend, or else they would have had to return it like what Ron Paul does… horrors!!!

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    Rebelfromtheburg Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 7:55 am

    I pay her more than that come on! She can go all night!!!

  4. what?! according to the cops, ‘crime is down’ in florida. truth be told, the cops want this hardware to fight the war on plants. vicious mexican drug cartel members are entrenched in america gratis 50 years of prohibition. ☠ are we ‘drug-free’ yet?

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:12 am

    25 YEARS OF SKUNK IN MY CLOSET SAYS NO.

  5. balistic sheilds???? wow are they paranoid or what?

    release the bee hives on them. watch what happens.

    those stupid enough to be part of the protestors in the streets are going to learn the very hard way.This is what the thugs want you all to do.

    Like the students protesting in MOntreal Canada, there movement has been taken over by alqueda CIA operatives.BUt most do not see this.Ignorance being the major cause.

    The hard line the government is now taking is clear to see, it is the NWO way of braking up societies all over the globe.taking the whole society hostage in the protests that have been going on for the last 94 days. It is slowly having effects on the local economy. But the NWO is behind all this even though so few can see it up here in the area where I live. The sheeple are not use too thinking for themselves. they rely on mainstream media, the same that announced RON Paul was ending his presidential run???????

    No one is safe on this planet, no one.

    restoretherepublicnow Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:10 am

    This is a true statement, and insurrection is coming, it will be planned and people will follow. The war will be a race and class war, then a civil war. Peaceful demonstrations have reached their peak, and soon unrest will happen. Lock your doors, stock food for at least three months, stock cigarettes and liquor in order to use them as bargaining tools, get gold and silver as another means of barter. Learn at least one trade, preferably gardening, carpentry, and basic electronics. Do not join this civil unrest because it makes no sense to do so. Get to know your neighbors well and prepare for this plight.

    Menzoberranzandweller Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Yes, very true statement.

  6. I wonder if it would tip and expose the holder if someone fired a small burst of 7.62×39 at one of the corners?

    Then again, it’s better to show up behind your enemies unannounced.

    There is a principle found in warfare where most soldiers don’t actually fire at the enemy, even with some training.
    Therefore, should the day arrive, remember they are monsters and aim for the heart!

    You’d better do a whole lot of brainstorming about “playing to win.”

    War is horrific and you don’t want to be hesitating at the wrong time, lest you end up like the soldier in “Saving Private Ryan” whose intestines were exposed and cried for mommy. I’m sure I would too in that situation.

    Be humble and move to cover. Unlike in “Call of Duty”, when you get shot the screen doesn’t just turn red for a bit then you move on. Get exercise, and learn to quickly move your body with all your gear to behind something bulletproof!

    A squad of trained, body armored goons is an enemy you should respect until they are completely destroyed.

    What’cha gonna do when they come for you?

    And you better fight like hell with words first!!!! See you at Bilderberg 2012.

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    May 16th, 2012 at 9:14 am

    I WANT THEM TO SQUIRM AND FLOP AROUND IN AGONY AND CURSE THE DAY THEY ROSE UP AGAINST US.

    TAKE OUT THEIR LEGS…

  7. There’s an awful lot of leg exposed there. Just like shooting under a car. A bullet in the foot or shin will get someone to drop that shield PDQ. That aside, there’s plenty of AP and API out there if you’re willing to spend the money.

    I’m not advocating ANYTHING, just stating the obvious. They ought not to get complacent with these shields. Right now, the police are dealing with drug dealers thieves and I have no problem with that. In fact, I applaud them for their efforts. However, if they think that they can impose some sort of martial law on honest, hard working Americans, they would likely find taht more than a few of us are better trained, better armed, more disciplined and more ready to die rather than live under the yoke of slavery.

  8. I’m sure the perps will just wait patiently while the cops get these out of the trunks of their cruisers

  9. Considering that people are armed to the teeth in Florida and the state has a huge nu,mber of concealed weapons permits, this is not an unexpected outcome. Of course this does nothing for a street incident that is unforeseen.

    The St Petersburg Police have a long history of shooting black youths, many times fleeing the Police. Deadly force is allowed on fleeing felons. Since spitting on the sidealk is a felony in Florida they get to pretty much shoot who they choose. They are always cleared too.

  10. EASY SOLUTION – flamethrowers w/ a napalm-like fuel. Squirt their feet and over the tops of the shields. Hoot feet and hot heads!!!

  11. just because the cops get all this equiptment doesn’t mean they have to use it, anybody who isn’t a mega-lo-maniac can see it’s totally crazy …

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