Owl: The Gestapoization of Local Police — Brutal & Stupid by Design — Entrapment & Repression Instead of Trust & Security
As Balko demonstrates in a long excerpt from his book, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, published in Salon, the incident described below, plus innumerable incidents of police extreme, overwhelming and excessive violence, are not rising due to a few bad apples and rogue cops, but rather to a much …