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State of Siege

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 11 years ago, in 2013, on the World Wide Web.

This is from the preface to an excellent Salon interview with Radley Balko on police militarization and his new book, Rise of the Warrior Cop.[1]

There are more than 100 SWAT team raids every day in this country. . . .

For the most part they go after nonviolent offenders like drug dealers and even small time gamblers.

–Alex Halperin, interviewing Radley Balko.
Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it, Salon (July 13, 2013)

Read the whole thing.

Here's a photo of a heavily armored soldier bursting through the door and pointing a shotgun at the camera. On his arm there's a band reading POLICE.

Also.

  1. [1]I owe the link to Lisa Simeone (August 16, 2013).↩
  • —Rad Geek

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