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Restrain Police, Restrain Their Acquisition of War Weaponry

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Thu Aug 14, 2014 at 09:07:23 PM EST
Tags: Overmilitarization, SWAT teams (all tags)
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This version is set to a compelling series of images from the protests and response of the National Guard at Kent State in 1969.

Things haven't changed. They've gotten worse. Radley Balko, author of “Overkill: The Rise of the Warrior Cop:The Militarization of America's Police Forces" testified before Congress in 2007 that swat team raids were up 1500% in the past two decades. [More...]

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