Rise of the Military Cop

[alice wellintown]

You may recall the discussion of Mace in _The Greening of America_, that
the alliance of Science &Co., the corporate State, targets dissent.

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On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:

>  I went to hear this guy, Radley Balko, speak on the topic of his book.
> His first event.
> Do you know when (and how) the concept of S.W.A.T. teams came about? Out
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> ashes of the Watts riots, by Darryl Gates, head of LA police department.
> He felt THAT
> event was like 'guerrila warfare' and the police were not prepared.
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> First use was in 1969----which is, of course, the year we read of Bigfoot
> the cop in Inherent Vice.
> (once again, TRP gets it right).
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> From around 300 S.W.A.T. team enactions a year in the early 70s, we now
> have between 100--150
> A DAY! So many for victimless suspicions of crime (by "informants"); cops
> meeting quotas; so many mistakes, so many endangered
> lives and innocent lives lost.--as well as the probably sometimes guilty,
> killed or sent up beyond the crime w/ overreaction.
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