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Three years ago, amid the protests erupting in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, President Barack Obama ordered a review of a federal program allowing military equipment to be transferred from the armed forces to state and local police departments. For many, the images of local police dressed in camouflage and travelling in armored vehicles became a metaphor for the ways in which the lines had blurred between civilian law enforcement and the militarya phenomenon that the journalist Radley Balko has referred to as the rise of the warrior cop. The review resulted in an executive order that curtailed the transfer of some types of military equipment. A new short film by Craig Atkinson, Conditioned Response, which includes unreleased footage shot while filming his documentary Do Not Resist, from 2016, suggests that the armored vehicles rolling through Ferguson were only the most visible indicators of this militarization. Another, more subtleand perhaps more intractableform of it is affecting the psychology of the officers themselves.
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Lars39
(26,117 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,887 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)What I get for just cut and pasting titles.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)The United States loves to teach men to kill.
It is the one thing the U.S. is exceptional at.
Whether it be the military or police.
I am so sick and tired of the EVIL shit this country does under the guise of protection.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)Talks tough, but I wonder if he has ever personally pulled the trigger on someone himself?