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Peace Officer - PBS Independent Lens Documentary coming Mar. 9
Peace Officer Trailer
In Peace Officer, the increasingly tense relationship between law enforcement and the public is seen through the eyes of someone who’s been on both sides: “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established Utah’s first SWAT team, only to see the same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later.
In this excerpt from Peace Officer, the militarization of police is revealed to accelerate alongside the escalation of the War on Drugs, especially after the implementation of the “1033 program” following the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act in 1990 that authorized the U.S. military to donate equipment to police departments.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/videos/the-militarization-of-police/
May 9
