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Though Americans commonly believe law enforcement?s role in society is to protect them and ensure peace and stability within the community, the sad reality is that police departments are often more focused on enforcing laws, making arrests and issuing citations. As a result of this as well as an increase in militarized policing techniques, Americans are eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, estimates a Washington?s Blog report based on official statistical data.

Though the U.S. government does not have a database collecting information about the total number of police involved shootings each year, it?s estimated that between 500 and 1,000 Americans are killed by police officers each year. Since 9/11, about 5,000 Americans have been killed by U.S. police officers, which is almost equivalent to the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty in Iraq.

Because individual police departments are not required to submit information regarding the use of deadly force by its officers, some bloggers have taken it upon themselves to aggregate that data. Wikipedia also has a list of ?justifiable homicides? in the U.S., which was created by documenting publicized deaths.

Racist policing

A big element in the police killings, Prysner says, is racism. ?A big majority of those killed are Latinos and Black people,? while the police officers are mostly White, he said. ?It?s a badge of honor to shoot gang members so [the police] go out and shoot people who look like gang members,? Prysner argued, giving the example of 34-year-old Rigoberto Arceo, who was killed by police on May 11.

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Arceo, who was a biomedical technician at St. Francis Medical Center, was shot and killed after getting out of his sister?s van. The Los Angeles County Sheriff?s Department says Arceo ?advanced on the deputy and attempted to take the deputy?s gun.? However, Arceo?s sister and 53-year-old Armando Garcia ? who was barbecuing in his yard when the incident happened ? say that Arceo had his hands above his head the entire time.

Prysner is not alone in his assertion that race is a major factor in officer-related violence. This past May, a study from the the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, an anti-racist activist organization, found that police officers, security guards or self-appointed vigilantes killed at least 313 Black people in 2012 ? meaning one Black person was killed in the U.S. by law enforcement roughly every 28 hours.

Prysner said the relationship between police departments and community members needs to change and that when police shoot an unarmed person with their arms in the air over their head, the officer should be punished.

http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-poli...ce-911/172029/

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Fixed it.

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SilentKnight must be a cop.

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East Germany didn't murder that many of its citizens.

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No, they would just shoot anyone who tried to leave. A very peaceful society.

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when you count all executions for political reasons, the dead from June 17 1953 and the people who died (got shot) when trying to leave Eastern Germany together, you easily get a few thousand - just read the official documentation that is available

but I know that doesn't fit your views, therefore i'll happily await your denials, deflection and some more socialist propaganda while you spit on the dead that tried to flee from your oh so beautiful socialist dream world

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Dvae

I would call the article total BS.
5000/15 =333 per yr or about 1 person a day some where in the US.

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So an article written by a nobody on a site I never heard of estimates..... Yeah, no.

Come back with some real numbers and then we'll talk.

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Dvae

You can't be serious. Name one other case in the last week that was unjustifiable by cops.

I call BS on the whole thing.

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That's a new definition: killed by a cop makes you being a burden of a society.

So, why not make this easy for the society? For starters police could eliminate the whole New York, and you have millions burdens less.

aka123

That's what the black slaves said about the slavery (or not).

RandyRandy

White socks or white sheet. . .neither very fashionable.

RandyRandy

How about this? Name one person who was killed by a terrorist in the 50 States since 9/12/01?

I'll give you a hint . . . ZERO

How about this - how many private US citizens were killed WORLDWIDE by a terrorist act?

I'll give you a hint. More Americans are killed by their own furniture than a terrorist act annually worldwide.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...rorism/258156/

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In Oakland, California, the NAACP reported that out of 45 officer-involved shootings in the city between 2004 and 2008, 37 of those shot were black. None were white. One-third of the shootings resulted in fatalities. Although weapons were not found in 40 percent of cases, the NAACP found, no officers were charged. (These numbers don't include 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot and killed by a transit authority officer at the Fruitvale BART station on New Year's Day of 2009.)

The New York City Police Department has reported similar trends in its firearms discharge report, which shows that more black people have been shot by NYPD officers between 2000 and 2011 than have Hispanics or whites.

Between 2003 and 2009, the DOJ reported that 4,813 people died while in the process of arrest or in the custody of law enforcement. These include people who died before an officer physically placed him or her under custody or arrest. This data, known as arrest-related deaths, doesn't reveal a significant discrepancy between whites, blacks, or hispanics. It also doesn't specify how many victims were unarmed. According to the FBI, which has tracked justifiable homicides up to 2012, 410 felons died at the hands of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty.*






http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...uson-black-men

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WASHINGTON ? Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police.

The numbers appear to show that the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, last Saturday was not an isolated event in American policing.

The reports show that 18 percent of the blacks killed during those seven years were under age 21, compared with 8.7 percent of whites. The victim in Ferguson was 18-year-old Michael Brown; the officer who shot him was identified Friday as Darren Wilson, who is white.

While the racial analysis is striking, the database it?s based on has been long considered flawed and largely incomplete.

The killings are self-reported by law enforcement, and not all police departments participate, so the database undercounts the actual number of deaths.

SEVEN DEPARTMENTS SCRUTINIZED

In addition to federal and state prosecutions of individual officers, seven U.S. police departments have been the subject of reviews by the Justice Department?s Civil Rights Division in the wake of fatal police shootings since 2010, according to department records.

? Albuquerque, New Mexico, and New Orleans represented the most egregious cases during that time, while separate reviews have involved Puerto Rico; Portland, Oregon; Miami; Seattle; and Newark, New Jersey.

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1 Black Man Is Killed Every 28 Hours by Police or Vigilantes: America Is Perpetually at War with Its Own People

Police officers, security guards, or self-appointed vigilantes extrajudicially killed at least 313 African-Americans in 2012 according to a recent study. This means a black person was killed by a security officer every 28 hours. The report notes that it's possible that the real number could be much higher.

The report, entitled "Operation Ghetto Storm", was performed by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, an antiracist grassroots activist organization. The organization has chapters in Atlanta, Detroit, Fort Worth-Dallas, Jackson, New Orleans, New York City, Oakland, and Washington, D.C. It has a history of organizing campaigns against police brutality and state repression in black and brown communities. Their study's sources included police and media reports along with other publicly available information. Last year, the organization published a similar study showing that a black person is killed by security forces every 36 hours. However, this study did not tell the whole story, as it only looked at shootings from January to June 2012. Their latest study is an update of this.

These killings come on top of other forms of oppression black people face. Mass incarceration ofnonwhites is one of them. While African-Americans constitute 13.1% of the nation's population, they make up nearly 40% of the prison population. Even though African-Americans use or sell drugs about the same rate as whites, they are 2.8 to 5.5 times more likely to be arrested for drugs than whites. Black offenders also receive longer sentences compared to whites. Most offenders are in prison for nonviolent drug offenses.

"Operation Ghetto Storm" explains why such killings occur so often. Current practices of institutional racism have roots in the enslavement of black Africans, whose labor was exploited to build the American capitalist economy, and the genocide of Native Americans. The report points out that in order to maintain the systems of racism, colonialism, and capitalist exploitation, the United States maintains a network of "repressive enforcement structures". These structures include the police, FBI, Homeland Security, CIA, Secret Service, prisons, and private security companies, along with mass surveillance and mass incarceration.

The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is not the only group challenging police violence against African-Americans. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network has been challenging the policy of stop-and-frisk in New York City, in which police officers randomly stop and search individuals for weapons or contraband. African-American and Latino men are disproportionately stopped and harassed by police officers. Most of those stopped (close to 90%) are innocent, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union. Stop Mass Incarceration also organizes against the War on Drugs and inhumane treatment of prisoners.

Along with the rate of extrajudicial killings, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement report contains other important findings. Of the 313 killed, 124 (40%) were between 22 and 31 years old, 57 (18%) were between 18 and 21 years old, 54 (17%) were between 32 and 41 years old, 32 (10%) were 42 to 51 years old, 25 (8%) were children younger than 18 years old, 18 (6%) were older than 52, and 3 (1%) were of unknown ages.

A significant portion of those killed, 68 people or 22%, suffered from mental health issues and/or were self-medicated. The study says that "[m]any of them might be alive today if community members trained and committed to humane crisis intervention and mental health treatment had been called, rather than the police."

43% of the shootings occurred after an incident of racial profiling. This means police saw a person who looked or behaved "suspiciously" largely because of their skin color and attempted to detain the suspect before killing them. Other times, the shootings occurred during a criminal investigation (24%), after 9-1-1 calls from "emotionally disturbed loved ones" (19%) or because of domestic violence (7%), or innocent people were killed for no reason (7%).

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Americans Killed by Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed in Iraq War

Cops have killed well over 5,000 Americans since 9/11. Many of these killings have occurred during no-knock raids, which have risen by 4000% since the 1980s.

Iraqi insurgents, by comparison, have killed around 3,500 Americans in Iraq since 9/11 in Operation Iraqi ?Freedom.?

It is not just Iraq. The number of Americans killed by police also now exceeds the number of Americans killed by Afghan insurgents.

Afghan insurgents have killed around 2,000 Americans in Afghanistan since 9/11 in Operation Enduring ?Freedom.?

The police are getting paid with our money to go on shooting sprees and they are killing more of us than the terrorists from whom they ?protect? us.

Do not be too surprised. This data is to be expected; it naturally fits with the fact that the State uses ?counter-terrorism? as a means to oppress and initiate violence against the population. In fact, you are eight times more likely to be killed by a cop than by an actual ?terrorist.?

Domestic violence is two-four times more common among police families than American families in general.

As of 2010 the compared data lifted from Cato?s NPMSRP shows that the reports of police committing sexual assault amounted to more than 2 times the reports in the entire general population.

If officer-involved killings were prosecuted as murder, the murder rate for law enforcement officers would exceed the general population murder rate by at least 472%. And these are only the reported incidents. The vast majority of police misconduct and abuse is unreported. Who knows what the actual total is.
Excerpt from compared data between Cato's NPMSR and the DOJURC.

Excerpt from compared data between Cato?s NPMSR and the DOJ?s UCR for police homicide and sexual assault.

While we?re at it, over a quarter of a billion human beings were killed by government last century alone, making government the leading cause of unnatural death in the 20th century. This doesn?t include casualties from all the wars that governments started to ?protect? us.

The number of Americans in prison now exceeds the number of high school teachers and engineers. There are at least 7.3 million Americans locked in captivity or under federal control as you read this, the majority of whom are non-violent (for example, they were caught ingesting a plant that the government claims is ?illegal?).


http://filmingcops.com/americans-killed-by-police/

One in 25 Americans were arrested as of 2011. The number may be even higher now.

Friends, don?t listen to anybody who tells you it?s ?just a few bad apples.? The whole barrel is rotten.

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LAPD kills young black man days after Ferguson shooting


Ezell Ford, a 25-year-old black man described by his family as having ?mental problems,? was shot and killed by a Los Angeles, California police officer Monday evening, barely 48 hours after an unarmed black man in Missouri suffered the same fate.

The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday that officers had conducted an ?investigative stop? the night prior, during which the suspect ? later identified as Ford ? reportedly engaged in an altercation with the cops, according to the LAPD.

?During the stop a struggle ensued, which resulted in an officer-involved-shooting,? the LAPD said in Tuesday?s statement. ?The suspect was transported to a local hospital and after lifesaving efforts he succumbed to his injuries.?

According to the victim?s family, Ford was complying with officers at the time of the shooting, and was killed while facedown before the police. USA Today reported that Ford was unarmed.

?They laid him out and for whatever reason, they shot him in the back, knowing mentally, he has complications,? an unnamed man who identified himself as the victim?s cousin told local station KTLA News. ?Every officer in this area, from the Newton Division, knows that ? that this child has mental problems,? he said. ?The excessive force ? there was no purpose for it. The multiple shootings in the back while he?s laying down? No.?

According to the cousin, the victim?s mother was met with police brandishing nightsticks when she arrived on the scene.

?Then when the mom comes, they don?t try to console her ? they pull the billy clubs out,? he said.

?My heart is so heavy,? the mother, Tritobia Ford, told KTLA News. ?My son was a good kid. He didn?t deserve to die the way he did.?

?All we want to know is why they did it,? Ezell Ford Sr. added.

KTLA reported that police were initially behaving ?tight-lipped? with regards to disclosing further details, because of a ?gathering? at the scene in the wake of the shooting. On Sunday, an event advertised as being a ?protest against the murder? of Ford is scheduled to occur outside of LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

Ford?s death occurred barely 48 hours after police in the small town of Ferguson, Missouri opened fire and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager who was reportedly unarmed at the time of the incident. Massive protests ? and at times, violent ones ? have occurred in the days since, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has since opened up a probe into the incident.

In California, the LAPD said that a thorough investigation will be conducted internally, then reviewed by the chief of police, the Office of the Inspector General and Board of Police Commissioners. Additionally, the Los Angeles County District Attorney?s Justice System Integrity Division will conduct a comprehensive investigation of its own, the LAPD reported.

The Homicide Report, an online database maintained by the Los Angeles Times, suggests that at least 303 people have died as a result of officer-involved shootings in the area since 2007. Meanwhile, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck was appointed on Tuesday this week to his second, five-year stint at the helm of that agency. The decision to keep Beck in charge of one of the nation?s largest police forces was made just one day after the LAPD?s civilian watchdog told the Los Angeles Times that he?d be launching an investigation into the accuracy of the agency?s crime statistics after a report by the paper revealed that that police in LA misclassified nearly 1,200 violent crimes as minor offenses during a one-year span ending in September 2013.

Dvae

You are so wrong its insane.

Heres 13, plus there were an additional 30 injured or maimed for life.

Michael Grant Cahill
Libardo Eduardo Caraveo
Justin Michael DeCrow
John P. Gaffaney
Frederick Greene
Jason Dean Hunt
Amy Sue Krueger
Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Michael S. Pearson
Russell Gilbert Seager
Francheska Velez
Juanita L. Warman
Kham See Xiong

Ever hear of Major Hassan- A terrorist through and through.
There are more but I'm not going to waste my time because you have made one of the most ridiculous posts of all time.

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So I'm walking down the middle of the road eating a bag of Skittles when ……

aka123

Based on Wikipedia that was not terrorist attack, at least he wasn't charged for terrorism (nor sentenced). Every nutbolt shooting someone is not terrorism, not even when shooter's name is Hasan or something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Malik_Hasan

Dvae

Oh I'm sorry how could I be so dumb!
It was workplace violence! Thats it!

Did Timothy McVeigh look like a terrorist?

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I don't know who that guy is, or does he look like terrorist. Looking like terrorist doesn't make it terrorism or the other way around. When terrorism is spoken about, you should remember that for example Germany had some real "Aryan" terrorists, real pale faces with western names, as did UK too.

Again, someone having name Hasan, being muslim and having a "tanned" face, doesn't make it terrorism.

Dvae

You see this is what infuriates me with people like you. You make excuses for them. They are terrorists.

Maybe you should have read the page in the link you posted.

In the first section:
The Senate released a report describing the mass shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001."[13][14]

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Senate is not a court, it can be as subjective as it wants, it can call it whatever. However, court didn't accuse him for terrorism.

And what fucking excuses you are talking about? What excuse and for what? Terrorism is quite well defined thing, although not the narrowest definition, but still. You can call apples as oranges, but it doesn't make those oranges.

Why it matters so much, does it make you feel better if they are terrorists? Let's do so that we call those whatever you wish for. Okay? Personally I vote for "Klingon raiding party", but it's your choice.

SilentKnight

I'm too honest to be a cop.

Besides, I still work for a living.

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He did pass the civil servants test, if they do that in Canada. He's a meter maid. He writes tickets and wears a uniform.

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The question that needs to be asked is What The Fuck does 9/11 have to do with police killing civilians? If there is a correlation between 9/11 and a rise in cops killing people, I'd like to see it.

I'd ask the OP but he's too fucking stupid to even ask what time it is.

Nevertheless, records are not kept, there is no correlation and the Op is a dimwitted fucktard.

aka123

About the records, that one blogkeeper had calculated the total number summing numbers from different states. Although reliability is quite shit.

But I would ask, why is there no country wide records about it?

RandyRandy

Nice try. Major Hassan was convicted of pre-meditated murder - not terrorism. He wasn't even charged with terrorism. Period.

Next?

dyna mo

Next?

How about associating cops killing people with 9/11? That's about as stupid a comparison that can be made.

It's like some of you think that bad guys beamed here on 9/11, if they are not terrorists then they're cool and neverfucking mind if they are ultra violent criminals. or wtfever.

Not saying everyone killed by a cop deserves it, far from it. But the correlation to 9/11 is beyond fucking stupid.

I guess the "logic" is I'm supposed to be more afraid of the cops that terrorists? that's not logic, that's a fucking desperate leap that makes absolutely zero sense.


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aka123

I have no study to back this up, but according to your own news quoted here in GFY, anti-terrorism resources have been multiplied, and attitude in general has changed to be more aggressive. Also people might be more fearful.


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"One of the most obvious changes is in mission focus. As Secretary Napolitano likes to say, homeland security is hometown security. Today officers serve as the front line `against another terrorist attack. They carry out traditional police duties while also monitoring and reporting suspicious activity and preparing for disaster scenarios. Infrastructure and facilities that were once just part of the landscape are now potential targets requiring a new level of vigilance. Large departments like NYPD and LAPD even have units devoted to counterterrorism. - See more at: http://blog.discoverpolicing.org/uncategorized/policing-in-a-post-911-america/#sthash.GpgUA7jc.dpuf"

http://blog.discoverpolicing.org/unc...t-911-america/

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Lol, and let's me go for lack of evidence?

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You are a big man calling people names from your computer. I guarantee you wouldn't be so brave if we met little dick man.

To answer your point.

The ?war on terror? has come home ? and it?s wreaking havoc on innocent American lives. The culprit is the militarization of the police.

The weapons that destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq have made their way to local law enforcement. While police forces across the country began a process of militarization ? complete with SWAT teams and flash-bang grenades ? when President Reagan intensified the ?war on drugs,? the post-9/11 ?war on terror? has added fuel to the fire.

Through laws and regulations like a provision in defense budgets that authorizes the Pentagon to transfer surplus military gear to police forces, local law enforcement agencies are using weapons found on the battlefields of South Asia and the Middle East.

A recent New York Times article by Matt Apuzzo reported that in the Obama era, ?police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.? The result is that police agencies around the nation possess military-grade equipment, turning officers who are supposed to fight crime and protect communities into what looks like an invading army. And military-style police raids have increased in recent years, with one count putting the number at 80,000 such raids last year.

In June, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought more attention to police militarization when it issued a comprehensive, nearly 100-page report titled, War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. Based on public records requests to more than 260 law enforcement agencies in 26 states, the ACLU concluded that this police militarization ?unfairly impacts people of color and undermines individual liberties, and it has been allowed to happen in the absence of any meaningful public discussion.?

The information contained in the ACLU report ? and in other investigations into the phenomenon ? is sobering. From the killing of innocent people to the almost complete lack of debate on these policies, police militarization has turned into a key issue for Americans. It is harming civil liberties, ramping up the ?war on drugs,? impacting the most marginalized members of society and transforming neighborhoods into war zones. Here are 11 important ? and horrifying ? things you should know about the militarization of police.

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1. It harms, and sometimes kills, innocent people. When you have heavily armed police officers using flash-bang grenades and armored personnel carriers, innocent people are bound to be hurt. The likelihood of people being killed is raised by the practice of SWAT teams busting down doors with no warning, which leads some people to think it may be a burglary and try to defend themselves. The ACLU documented seven cases of civilians dying in these kinds of raids, and 46 people being injured. That’s only in the cases the civil liberties group looked at, so the true number is actually higher.

Take the case of Tarika Wilson, which the ACLU summarizes. The 26-year-old biracial mother lived in Lima, Ohio. Her boyfriend, Anthony Terry, was wanted by the police on suspicion of drug dealing. So on January 4, 2008, a SWAT team busted down Wilson’s door and opened fire. A SWAT officer killed Wilson and injured her one-year-old baby, Sincere Wilson. The killing sparked rage in Lima and accusations of a racist police department, but the officer who shot Wilson, Sgt. Joe Chavalia, was found not guilty on all charges.

2. Children are impacted. As the case of Wilson shows, the police busting down doors care little about whether there’s a child in the home. Another case profiled by the ACLU shows how children can be caught in the crossfire — with devastating consequences.

In May, after their Wisconsin home had burned down, the Phonesavanh family was staying with relatives in Georgia. One night, a SWAT team with assault rifles invaded the home and threw a flash-bang grenade — despite the presence of kids’ toys in the front yard. The police were looking for the father’s nephew on drug charges. He wasn’t there. But a 19-month-old named Bou Bou was — and the grenade landed in his crib.

Bou Bou was wounded in the chest and had third-degree burns. He was put in a medically induced coma.

Another high-profile instance of a child being killed by paramilitary police tactics occurred in 2010, when seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones died in Detroit. The city’s Special Response Team (Detroit’s SWAT) was looking for Chauncey Owens, a suspect in the killing of a teenager who lived on the second floor of the apartment Jones lived in.

Officers raided the home, threw a flash-bang grenade, and fired one shot that struck Jones in the head. The police agent who fired the fatal shot, Joseph Weekley, has so far gotten off easy: a jury trial ended in deadlock last year, though he will face charges of involuntary manslaughter in September. As The Nation’s Mychal Denzel Smith wrote last year after Weekley was acquitted: “What happened to Aiyana is the result of the militarization of police in this country…Part of what it means to be black in America now is watching your neighborhood become the training ground for our increasingly militarized police units.”

Bou Bou and Jones aren’t the only cases of children being impacted.

According to the ACLU, “of the 818 deployments studied, 14 percent involved the presence of children and 13 percent did not.” It was impossible to determine whether children were present in the rest of the cases studied.

3. The use of SWAT teams is often unnecessary. In many cases, using militarized teams of police is not needed. The ACLU report notes that the vast majority of cases where SWAT teams are deployed are in situations where a search warrant is being executed to look for drugs. In other words, it’s not even 100 percent clear whether there are drugs at the place the police are going to. These situations are not why SWAT was created.

Furthermore, even when SWAT teams think there are weapons, they are often wrong. The ACLU report shows that in the cases where police thought weapons would be there, they were right only a third of the time.

4. The “war on terror” is fueling militarization. A growing number of agencies have taken advantage of the Department of Defense’s “1033” program, which is passed every year as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The number of police agencies obtaining military equipment like mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAPs) has increased since 2009, according to USA Today, which notes that this “surplus military equipment” is “left over from U.S. military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.” This equipment is largely cost-free for the police agencies that receive them.

In addition to the Pentagon budget provision, another agency created in the aftermath of 9/11 is helping militarize the police. The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) grants funnel military-style equipment to local police departments nationwide. According to a 2011 Center for Investigative Reporting story published by The Daily Beast, at least $34 billion in DHS grants have gone to police agencies to buy military-style equipment. This money has gone to purchase drones, tactical vests, bomb-disarming robots, tanks and more.

5. It’s a boon to contractor profits. The trend towards police militarization has given military contractors another lucrative market where they can shop their products. Companies like Lockheed Martin and Blackhawk Industries are making big bucks by selling their equipment to agencies flush with Department of Homeland Security grants.

In addition to selling equipment, contractors also sponsor training events for SWAT teams, like Urban Shield, a major arms expo that has attracted increasing attention from activists in recent years. SWAT teams, police agencies and military contractors converge on Urban Shield, which was held in California last year, to train SWAT teams and promote the equipment.

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6. Border militarization and police militarization go hand in hand. The “war on terror” and “war on drugs” aren’t the only wars helping police militarization. There’s also the war on undocumented immigrants.

The notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio, infamous for brutal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, is the paradigmatic example of this trend. According to the ACLU, Arpaio’s Maricopa County department has acquired a machine gun so powerful it could tear through buildings on multiple city blocks. In addition, he has 120 assault rifles, five armored vehicles and ten helicopters. Other law enforcement agencies in Arizona have obtained equipment like bomb suits and night-vision goggles.

Then there’s a non-local law enforcement agency on the border: the Border Patrol, which has obtained drones and attack helicopters. And Border Patrol agents are acting like they’re at war. A recent Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that the Border Patrol killed 19 people from January 2010-October 2012 — including some incidents in which the agents were under no lethal, direct threat.

7. Police are cracking down on dissent. In 1999, massive protests rocked Seattle during the World Trade Organization meeting. The police cracked down hard on the demonstrators using paramilitary tactics. Police fired tear gas at protesters, causing all hell to break loose.

Norm Stamper, the Seattle police chief at the time, criticized the militarized policing he presided over in a Nation article in 2011. “Rocks, bottles and newspaper racks went flying. Windows were smashed, stores were looted, fires lighted; and more gas filled the streets, with some cops clearly overreacting, escalating and prolonging the conflict,” wrote Stamper.

More than a decade after the Seattle protests, militarized policing to crack down on dissent returned with a vengeance during the wave of Occupy protests in 2011. Tear gas and rubber bullets were used to break up protests in Oakland. Scott Olsen, an Occupy Oakland protester and war veteran, was struck in the head by a police projectile, causing a fractured skull, broken vertebrae and brain swelling.

8. Asset forfeitures are funding police militarization. In June, AlterNet’s Aaron Cantú outlined how civil asset forfeiture laws work.

“It’s a legal fiction spun up hundreds of years ago to give the state the power to convict a person’s property of a crime, or at least, implicate its involvement in the committing of a crime. When that happened, the property was to be legally seized by the state,” wrote Cantú. He went on to explain that law enforcement justifies the seizure of property and cash as a way to break up narcotics rings’ infrastructure. But it can also be used in cases where a person is not convicted, or even charged with a crime.

Asset forfeitures bring in millions of dollars for police agencies, who then spend the money for their own uses. And for some police departments, it goes to militarizing their personnel.

New Yorker reporter Sarah Stillman, who penned a deeply reported piece on asset forfeitures, wrote in August 2013 that “thousands of police departments nationwide have recently acquired stun grenades, armored tanks, counterattack vehicles, and other paramilitary equipment, much of it purchased with asset-forfeiture funds.” So SWAT teams have an incentive to conduct raids where they seize property and cash that then goes into their budgets for more weapons.

9. Dubious informants are used for raids. As The New Yorker’s Stillman wrote in another piece, informants are “the foot soldiers in the government’s war on drugs. By some estimates, up to eighty percent of all drug cases in America involve them.” Given SWAT teams’ focus on finding drugs, it’s no surprise that informants are used to gather information that lead to military-style police raids.

A 2006 policy paper by investigative journalist Radley Balko, who has done the most reporting on militarized policing, highlighted the negative impact of using informants for these raids have. Most often, informants are “people who regularly seek out drug users and dealers and tip off the police in exchange for cash rewards,” and other drug dealers who inform to gain leniency or cash from the police. But these informants are quite unreliable — and the wrong information can lead to tragic consequences.

10. There’s been little debate or oversight. Despite the galloping march towards militarization, the ACLU report notes that “there does not appear to be much, if any, local oversight of law enforcement agency receipt of equipment transfers.” One of the group’s recommendations is for states and local municipalities to enact laws encouraging transparency and oversight of SWAT teams.

11. Communities of color bear the brunt. Across the country, communities of color are the people most targeted by police practices. In recent years, the abuse of “stop and frisk” tactics has attracted widespread attention because of the racially discriminatory way it has been applied.

Militarized policing has also targeted communities of color. According to the ACLU report, “of all the incidents studied where the number and race of the people impacted were known, 39 percent were Black, 11 percent were Latino, 20 were white.” The majority of raids that targeted blacks and Latinos were related to drugs — another metric exposing how the “war on drugs” is racist to the core.

dyna mo

blah fucking blah you dimwit. Look, my pointing out how fucking stupid you are isn't me being a tough guy, it's me pointing out a fact.

Show me one single statistic that links terrorism with some increase in cops killing people.

Until then you are

1. regurgitating shit which is not only making shit up, it's so far over your dimwit fucking head you can't even see that.

2. see #1 and x2

3. the implied correlation completes distracts from the 3 separate issues, which for those of us who can comprehend more than 1 thing at a time are

a. terrorism
b. police killing people
c. the militarization of police

dyna mo

none of this has anything to do with correlating 9/11 with cops killing people.

Want to know when cops starting militarizing themselves? it happened after the bank of america shootout in los angeles in 1997. That is in fact, documented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

dyna mo

The ineffectiveness of the standard police patrol pistols and shotguns in penetrating the robbers' body armor led to a trend in the United States (including cities such as Miami) toward arming selected police patrol officers, not just SWAT teams, with heavier firepower such as semi-automatic 5.56 mm AR-15 type rifles.

SWAT teams, whose close quarters battle weaponry usually consisted of submachine guns that fired pistol cartridges such as the Heckler & Koch MP5, began supplementing them with AR-15-based assault rifles and carbines.[15]

Seven months after the incident, the Department of Defense gave 600 surplus M16s to the LAPD, which were issued to each patrol sergeant;[32][33]

LAPD patrol vehicles now carry AR-15s as standard issue, with bullet-resistant Kevlar plating in their doors as well.[34]

Also as a result of this incident LAPD authorized its officers to carry .45 ACP caliber semiautomatic pistols as duty sidearms, specifically the Smith and Wesson Models 4506 and 4566.

Prior to 1997, only LAPD SWAT officers were authorized to carry .45 ACP caliber pistols, specifically the Model 1911A1 .45 ACP semiautomatic pistol.[35]