Militarized Police

California Expose
View In: Militarized PoliceAs advocates and academics question the impact of flights over neighborhoods, police departments lack persuasive evidence of crime-fighting effectiveness. The post Are Police Helicopters Worth the Cost? appeared first on .

Speaking Security
View In: Militarized PoliceSpeaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Activists and Candidates, n°161 | 11 July 2022

Reclaim the Net
View In: Militarized PoliceMore and more states are banning the social media scanning tech. The post Police aren’t happy with facial recognition surveillance bans appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Counter Punch
View In: Militarized PoliceIn his essay, “A political constitution for the pluralist world society?” (in Between naturalism and religion [2008]), Habermas wants to flesh out the idea of a cosmopolitan condition in a form that remains in touch with existing realities while at the same time pointing beyond them” (p. 322). Daniel...

Speaking Security
View In: Militarized PoliceSpeaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Activists and Candidates, n°154 | 20 April 2022

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Militarized PoliceIn June 1882, a Boston lawyer noticed a man named John Burns leaning against a lamppost in Beacon Hill. Burns was drunk, but seemingly harmless, when a Boston police officer approached him from behind and knocked him “prostrate into the street” with a club to the head. The particulars of the case wer...