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June 25, 2020 05:23 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/25/why-americas-police-look-lik.html
Why America's police look like soldiers
Vox made a video that explains why cops in the US look like soldiers. It's "the result of a decades-long buildup of military equipment among the countrys police departments. It began as a Reagan-era program to give police departments more resources to fight the War on Drugs, and has escalated ever since. Today, the idea of a militarized police force is baked into how American police see themselves."
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