militarized police
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Militarized policing not so popular
Study also finds that images of cops in military gear diminish support for increasing funding to police agencies. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/08/22/militarized-policing-doesnt-reduce-crime-and-disproportionately-hits-black-communities/ The high militarization treatment also caused support for police funding in the United States to fall by roughly… Continue reading
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More Deadly Police Encounters Than We Thought
The Guardian US determined that police killed 1,146 people last year during interactions on the street. By contrast, police departments reported just 444 police shootings to the FBI in 2014. Source: More People Die in Police Encounters Than We Thought… Continue reading
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Paranoid Style of American Policing
…It will not do to note that 99 percent of the time the police mediate conflicts without killing people anymore than it will do for a restaurant to note that 99 percent of the time rats don’t run through the… Continue reading
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The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State
We live in a culture where the victim is always the criminal and the criminal is always the victim. When it is a murderer–one without a police shield, of course–this is the sort of thing shouted by all kinds of… Continue reading
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America Is Not For Black People
Michael Brown is not special. In all its specificity, the 18-year olds death remains just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.Part of the reason were seeing so many black men killed is that police officers… Continue reading
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Police Departments Gearing up for War at Home
Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and… Continue reading
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