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SWAT Raids: No One Is Safe

David Borden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Aiyana Jones, Jonathan Whitworth, Police, Drug War, Police Killings, SWAT Team, Militarization of Policing, Politics News
David Borden

Today, SWAT is deployed more than 50,000 times annually. Proliferation of this aggressive, militarized tactic has seen a steady drumbeat of heart attacks, fires, and killings resulting directly from it.

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SWAT and the Drug War: License to Kill

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Swat, Civil Liberties, Radley Balko, Seattle, Cato Institute, Homeland Security, Richard Nixon, San Diego, Jonathan Whitworth, Paramilitary, Police Chief Daryl Gates, Columbia Missouri, Lapd, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Politics News
Norm Stamper

As long as this country remains addicted to current drug laws, the police will have to enforce those laws. But where is it written that they must show up in the dead of night, armed and armored, in order to do so?

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