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Now Updated With New Material, The Groundbreaking History Of How Police Forces Have Become Militarized, Both In Equipment And Mindset, And What That Means For American Democracy. The Last Days Of Colonialism Taught America's Revolutionaries That Soldiers In The Streets Bring Conflict And Tyranny. As A Result, Our Country Has Generally Worked To Keep The Military Out Of Law Enforcement. But According To Investigative Reporter Radley Balko, Over The Last Several Decades, America's Cops Have Increasingly Come To Resemble Ground Troops. The Consequences Have Been Dire: The Home Is No Longer A Place Of Sanctuary, The Fourth Amendment Has Been Gutted, And Police Today Have Been Conditioned To See The Citizens They Serve As An Other-an Enemy. Today's Armored-up Policemen Are A Far Cry From The Constables Of Early America. The Unrest Of The 1960s Brought About The Invention Of The Swat Unit-which In Turn Led To The Debut Of Military Tactics In The Ranks Of Police Officers. Nixon's War On Drugs, Reagan's War On Poverty, Clinton's Cops Program, The Post-9/11 Security State Under Bush, Obama: By Degrees, Each Of These Innovations Empowered Police Forces, Always At The Expense Of Civil Liberti

Author

Balko, Radley, author

Publisher

Perseus Books Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781541774537

Subjects

Social Science, Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.28 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13