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Monday, August 18, 2014

A Militarized Police and the Limits on "Crowd Control:"

Playing Soldier in the Suburbs (Ross Douthat) from the New York Times 
"Militarized tactics that are potentially useful in specialized circumstances — like firefights with suicidal terrorist groups — can be counterproductive when employed for crowd-control purposes by rank-and-file cops. (The only recent calm on Ferguson’s streets came after state cops started walking through the crowds in blue uniforms, behaving like police instead of storm troopers.)"

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