- President Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of the government’s decade-old strategy of outfitting local police departments with military-grade body armor, mine-resistant trucks, silencers and automatic rifles, senior officials say http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/us/in-washington-second-thoughts-on-arming-police.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=homepage&version=ledesum&module=a-lede-package-region&region=lede-package&wt.nav=lede-package 311 comments politics
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- Homeland Security was built to fend off terrorists. Why's it so busy arming cops to fight average Americans? | Trevor Timm | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/homeland-security-department-prevent-terrorism-busy-arming-cops?cmp=twt_gu 1632 comments
- The Pentagon gave local cops nearly 12,000 bayonets over the past 8 years - Vox http://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/6101895/charts-police-militarization-1033-program-obama-administration 113 comments
- Homeland Security was built to fend off terrorists. Why's it so busy arming cops to fight average Americans? | Trevor Timm | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/homeland-security-department-prevent-terrorism-busy-arming-cops 35 comments
- Documents Reveal the Fearmongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon – Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/new-documents-reveal-fearmongering-local-cops-use-score-military-gear-pentagon 33 comments
- The Rise of the SWAT Team in American Policing - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/us/the-rise-of-the-swat-team-in-american-policing.html?_r=0 6 comments
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- War Gear Flows to Police Departments - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html?amp%3B_r=0&ref=us 135 comments
- What Happened in Ferguson? - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/ferguson-missouri-town-under-siege-after-police-shooting.html?amp%3B_r=0&%3Baction=click&%3Bmodref=hpgraphicrefer&%3Bmodule=second-column-region&%3Bpgtype=homepage&%3Bregion=top-news&%3Bwt.nav=top-news&hp= 55 comments
- Senator Rand Paul on Ferguson: We Must Demilitarize the Police | Time http://time.com/3111474/rand-paul-ferguson-police/ 48 comments
- What Military Gear Your Local Police Department Bought - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/upshot/data-on-transfer-of-military-gear-to-police-departments.html?_r=0&abg=1&abt=0002&emc=rss&partner=rss 3 comments
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