The militarization of American policing.
It’s not just the War on (Some) Drugs. It’s also all the free goodies that police departments have been getting from the military as surplus.
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The militarization of American policing.
It’s not just the War on (Some) Drugs. It’s also all the free goodies that police departments have been getting from the military as surplus.
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The drug war establishes the norms, creates the new MO of the police. No knock raids. Busts as a unit of policing. Fear and aggression as the norm for interacting with the public. Escalation. Dominance. Disregard for the individual and the community. Distrust between the public and the police. Etc.
Giving police departments toys to take them further down these paths just makes the problem worse and gives them reason to create further rationalizations and mental justifications for these behaviors. And as the police become more authoritarian and aggressive they alienate the public further and then perpetuate the phenomenon.
I mean I’m sittin here on the Group W bench ’cause you want to know if I’m moral enough join the SWAT team, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug.
(with no apologies to Arlo Guthrie)