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Showing posts with label police militarization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police militarization. Show all posts
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Sarah Lazare — Clear Evidence Emerges of Outrageous Militarized Police Collaboration with Oil Companies at Standing Rock Against Protectors

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Famous last words. "It can't happen here." AlterNet Clear Evidence Emerges of Outrageous Militarized Police Collaboration ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Tom Boggioni — LRAD's, Steel Batons and Armored Personnel Carriers: Cleveland Cops Stocking up before GOP Convention

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Anticipating massive demonstrations in the streets during the Republican National Convention in mid-July, Cleveland police authorities are ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Ted Galen Carpenter — The Creeping Miltiarization of American Culture

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In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the growing influence of the “military-industrial complex” on Ameri...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Nafeez Ahmed — Pentagon Allowed to Supply Military Gear Directly to Homeland Security Dept. for ‘War on Immigrants’

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Amendments to a controversial Pentagon program to sell military gear to domestic police forces have quietly extended the scheme to provide ...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

Claire Bernish — New Report Proves Police Preparing For Rioting On A National Scale

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A new report from analysts with industry research group, Sandler Research, forecasts the Global Riot Control System Market for the next fo...
Sunday, February 28, 2016

Henry Giroux on State Terrorism and the Ideological Weapons of Neoliberalism — Leslie Thatcher Interview

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Public intellectual Henry Giroux discusses his new book, America's Addiction to Terrorism , and the terror that "is now such a cen...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

M. David — Police Unions Claim Cops Have The Right To Take Steroids So ‘They’ll Have the Upper Hand’

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"We have to take drugs because they do." I kid you not. Goes along with, "We have to arm up because they do." Then it  b...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Bethania Palma Markus — Florida Sheriff Furious Obama Took His Military Tank Away

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Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson said losing an M113 — an armored personnel carrier — will result in some of his officers going on “suici...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

George Joseph — New Swat Documents Give Snapshot Of Ugly Militarization Of U.S. Police

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Power that would make the Gestapo. KGB, and Stasi drool with envy. This is nuts. It's sending the wrong message both domesticall...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

My podcast for Tuesday, March 3.

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Here's my podcast for March 3.
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Fred Mazelis — New police unit in New York: The ruling elite prepares for class struggle

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According to de Blasio’s Police Commissioner, William Bratton, the new force will be “designed for dealing with events like our recent prot...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Dara Lind — Why police officers often resort to lethal force as their first response

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Why you are in mortal peril if a police officer thinks he is in mortal peril. As the fear factor rises, it doesn't take much. VOX W...
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Friday, December 5, 2014

Zaid Jilani — The Truth About Who Is Really Responsible for Our Current Police and Prison State

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The shameful complicity of Democratic leaders in creating our out-of-control, militarized police forces. Remember when Democrats were acc...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Stephen Rosenfeld — Federal Appeals Court Ridicules Florida Cops For Using SWAT Team To Check On Barbershop Licenses

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“It was a scene right out of a Hollywood movie,” the Court’s ruling began . “Teams from the OCSO [Orange County Sheriff’s Office] descended...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Cosme Caal — A Warning: The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces

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Counterpunch: A Warning   The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces   by COSME CAAL Guatemala City   From Guatemala City I ha...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Diane Goldstein — Take It From a Cop: The Drug War Poisons Community Policing

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The Ferguson riots are the latest high-profile example of the deep schism between American law enforcement and the communities it serves. T...
Saturday, August 23, 2014

Medea Benjamin — Police Departments Shouldn't Become Dumping Grounds for Weapons Makers

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Public good, or pork barrel for the defense industry? File under WTF?! Your head will spin if you take a look at this map the New York Ti...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Christopher Mathias — Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Thinks Police In Ferguson Are Out Of Hand

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Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly once boasted that his department-- which he described as a " quasi-military organization "...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Brad Friedman — Tale of Two Protests: The Armed Bundy Bunch and the Peaceful Demonstrators of Ferguson

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Brad Blog Tale of Two Protests: The Armed Bundy Bunch and the Peaceful Demonstrators of Ferguson Brad Friedman
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

The militarization of America's police and law enforcement continues

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This is a very scary trend and I saw it first hand during the Occupy protests back in 2011, where heavily militarized NYPD units moved on p...