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  • When your favorite tool is a hammer...

    ...everything starts looking like a nail. Everything. The American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its year-long study of police militarization. The study looked at 800 deployments of SWAT teams among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012. Among the notable findings: 62 percent of the SWAT raids surveyed were to conduct searches for drugs. Just under 80 percent were to serve a search warrant, meaning eight in 10 SWAT raids were not initiated to apprehend a school...
  • Militarizing the Police

    Police in Madison, WI, receive a "free" Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) military vehicle from the Department of Defense. Of course, they do have all those lefty thugs in Madison... there is that SEIU threat. Just because they want to be like soldiers doesn't mean they should. Just because we have a lot of these laying around, doesn't mean we should give them to every Tom, ***, and Department that wants a toy to overawe the citizens with. And those things are a pain to drive...