Overmilitarization: Why Law Enforcement Needs to Scale Down Its Use of Military Hardware and Tactics

Federal, state, and local government agencies use military-grade hardware and tactics not only to deal with states of emergency for which they are well-suited, but also to conduct regulatory inspections for which they are not.

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