Classic WhoWhatWhy: Police State Gears Up - WhoWhatWhy

Classic WhoWhatWhy: Police State Gears Up - WhoWhatWhy: 

Classic WhoWhatWhy: Police State Gears Up

 On May 18, 2015, President Obama made a surprising announcement: he
ordered the federal government to reverse its standing practice of
providing American police departments with surplus weapons and vehicles
from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Given declining
confidence in police after a seemingly constant recent stream of
fatalities involving black suspects, this newfound caution with heavy
provisioning is understandable. But questions about the wisdom of
militarizing police are not new. WhoWhatWhy first wrote about the issue in February, 2014. You can read about it here.

 

  

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