Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces — The Institutional Ratchet
Police militarization is easy to recognize when it appears as armored vehicles, tactical uniforms, and battlefield-style weapons. The harder question is how extraordinary capabilities gradually become ordinary features of civilian law enforcement.
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Using Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates how decades of political choices, court decisions, drug-war policies, federal funding, specialized tactical units, and institutional…
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