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Saturday, July 06, 2013

Botched Paramilitary Police Raids

An Epidemic of "Isolated Incidents"

"If a widespread pattern of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . . there would be reason for grave concern."
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.

An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

North Dakota looks to be a safe haven from the police state

lmclain said...

I got $50 that says Balko is going to be "accidently" killed in a traffic stop, "resisting arrest" or "obstructing justice".

Anonymous said...

"overkill" lol, guess you've never been in the position to have guns and other weapons pointed at you. But most armchair liberal internet pansies would know nothing about real men standing up for the law.