The January 2012 raid of Matthew Stewart’s Ogden home that left one member of the Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force dead shocked the local community. But it didn’t come as much of a surprise to ...
Former President Barack Obama is continuing his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s actions, this time warning against the 47th president of the United States’ recent takeover of the D.C. local ...
“It fundamentally shifted the role of police from guardians to soldiers,” Dr. Jessica Katzenstein, an anthropologist who studies police militarization, said. “The idea of public safety was replaced by ...
Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. A majority ...
The bright red line between domestic policing and our military is being blurred and represents an existential threat to our freedoms, our democratic values — and our way of life. President Donald ...
Police militarization penetrated a number of aspects of American life — even law enforcement attached to K-12 public schools participated in 1033. The violent repression of the Ferguson protests in ...
“The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk,” wrote America’s first Black president. Former ...