Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Over the last few weeks, Minneapolis has looked like a city under siege. The Trump ...

The militarization of police - is it real, or a made up term by cop haters in an effort to discredit the service? Why do officers now look more like special forces than traditional cops? Tactical ...

Instead, military involvement in domestic law enforcement becomes normalized, power concentrates in the executive, civilian institutions weaken, and civil liberties erode. Democratic institutions ...

The federal government arms local police forces in the United States with weapons of war. A program called “1033,” for the section of the act that created it, allows the Department of Defense to give ...

Mr. Balko is the author of “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and the criminal justice newsletter The Watch. Police agencies in the United States kill more than 1 ...