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Public Support for Militarized Policing Ebbs, Fails to Improve Safety
Loaded on Jan. 17, 2019
by Edward Lyon
published in Criminal Legal News
February, 2019, page 21
Filed under:
Military,
Police,
Excessive Force (Police),
Police State-Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Ed Lyon
The 1970s television show S.W.A.T., along with its resurrection in the movie and TV show by the same name, portrayed police officers in Special Weapons and Tactics (“SWAT”) units as top cops doing a difficult (yet occasionally required) necessary-but-evil job.
According to the conclusions of a recent ...
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