New ACLU report takes a snapshot of police militarization in the United States

New ACLU report takes a snapshot of police militarization in the United StatesThe American Civil Liberties Union has released the results of its year-long study of police militarization. The study looked at 800 deployments of SWAT teams among 20 local, state and federal police agencies in 2011-2012. Among the notable findings: 62 percent of the SWAT raids surveyed were to conduct searches for drugs.

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