koshergrl
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- Aug 4, 2011
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Our neighborhoods are not warzones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. Any yet, every year, billions of dollars worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments. Departments use these wartime weapons in everyday policing, especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly targeted people of color.
As our new report makes clear, its time for American police to remember that they are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not wage war on the people who live in them."
https://www.aclu.org/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-policing
Our neighborhoods are not warzones, and police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. Any yet, every year, billions of dollars worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments. Departments use these wartime weapons in everyday policing, especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly targeted people of color.
As our new report makes clear, its time for American police to remember that they are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not wage war on the people who live in them."
https://www.aclu.org/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-policing