DOJ Agency Warns Of Police Militarization
DOJ Agency Warns Of Police Militarization
Radley Balko | December 9, 2013 9:27 AM ET
In the monthly e-newsletter for the Justice Department's Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) program, Senior Policy Analyst Karl Bickel sounds the alarm about the militarization of America's domestic police forces. Here's his conclusion:
Police chiefs and sheriffs may want to ask themselves—if after hiring officers in the spirit of adventure, who have been exposed to action oriented police dramas since their youth, and sending them to an academy patterned after a military boot camp, then dressing them in black battle dress uniforms and turning them loose in a subculture steeped in an “us versus them” outlook toward those they serve and protect, while prosecuting the war on crime, war on drugs, and now a war on terrorism—is there any realistic hope of institutionalizing community policing as an operational philosophy?
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- No matter who is talking.
K&R
NOW DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT DOJ! 
... who lauds over Homeland Security? DOJ or the MIC? As a matter of fact, who lauds over the MIC? 
The MIC does not exist in any official sense. It is merely a term to describe a relationship very hard to get away from. It is the combination of elected officials who are lobbied for contracts to bring money to their districts or states.
Which create jobs in R & D, education, manufacturing, and every other field supporting those activities. People love all those jobs, they think they are so intelligent making all these things. But wise, no. The more accurate, original term was MICC. Congressional was dropped to not insult the voters, after all they elected Congress.
It stood for Military Industrial Congressional Complex. People want jobs, and will rationalize their employment by almost anything to see it as a good thing for the country.
The corporations employed have supplied of most of the technical innovations in our consumer culture. Almost all technical innovations are in some ways tied to warfare or defense, or space exploration, and applied to civilian life afterward. Some things are necessities, some not.
More complicated explanations use philosophies, ideologies, politics, economic ideas, even religion to make them seem like a good thing. Media has been commericalized for selling a product. With more privatization, it manufactures crisises where there are none, to sell a solution, which was not devised after the problem got publicity.
No, it was a product that laid on the shelf or in R&D and didn't have funding. Panic the public or now increasingly, make the appearance of 'news' that the public wants something done, and politicians will act on the alleged crisis.
Go about the land and really ask people what they want, and it won't look anything like what media is paid to say they do. That's how things get out of hand.
So the MIC does not have a boss or a lord in government or even corporations it is larger than all of them. We are the boss, but are persuaded by high salaries from all these things. And until the American people think more of freedom, peace, healthcare, justice, the poor and the environment, we'll elect those who do this for us.
... I didn't know Homeland Security was it's own agency. It sort of makes me ill to face the fact that we live in this MICC, an empire, and that there is little We the People can do about it. Very depressing. 
I think I'm just a bit depressed by the day (Madiba funeral), the cold and the icy rain falling from the skies where I am. I'll snap out of this funk tomorrow. I will never ever give up, will never stop fighting against the injustices of this world and this country in-particular. And after I'm gone, my children will carry on the struggle. 
