RADLEY BALKO, REASON - So not even a week after narcotics officers plead
guilty to killing an innocent elderly woman, the Atlanta Journal runs
this story, about all the free military goodies Georgia police
departments are getting from the Pentagon. . . The Pentagon giveaway
program began in the late 1980s, and is almost certainly responsible for
the dramatic rise in the number of SWAT teams across the country, which
led to the 1500 percent increase in the number of total deployments over
the last 25 years, and to the increasing use of paramilitary tactics for
nonviolent crimes. Many criminal justice experts say the program, along
with the fact that SWAT teams and narcotics officers are often trained
by former members of elite military groups like the Army Rangers or Navy
Seals is responsible for the "cowboy" mentality that pervades many SWAT
and narcotics units.
http://reason.com/blog/show/119952.html
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guilty to killing an innocent elderly woman, the Atlanta Journal runs
this story, about all the free military goodies Georgia police
departments are getting from the Pentagon. . . The Pentagon giveaway
program began in the late 1980s, and is almost certainly responsible for
the dramatic rise in the number of SWAT teams across the country, which
led to the 1500 percent increase in the number of total deployments over
the last 25 years, and to the increasing use of paramilitary tactics for
nonviolent crimes. Many criminal justice experts say the program, along
with the fact that SWAT teams and narcotics officers are often trained
by former members of elite military groups like the Army Rangers or Navy
Seals is responsible for the "cowboy" mentality that pervades many SWAT
and narcotics units.
http://reason.com/blog/show/119952.html
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