It would further blur the line between police and military — two institutions designed for fundamentally different purposes.

And now we see some of our police officers in this same way. "The militarization of law enforcement ... Read next BI Tech Memo An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... Fayetteville was not alone. While militarized police forces squared off with mostly peaceful protesters across America that week, more than 1,000 ...

In their response to the protests and civil unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer last Saturday, local authorities have employed armored ...

Have U.S. police forces become too militarized? But our research, and that of other scholars of international conflict, offers a different theory: They may not be militarized enough. The standards ...

As tens of thousands of Americans took to U.S. streets over the past two weeks to protest the brutal killing of George Floyd in police custody, one image has become an icon of this cultural moment ...

Police militarization — the issue that briefly united conservatives and liberals over Ferguson — has turned out to be a dud. A White House review suggests largely leaving intact federal ...

One of the earliest policy impacts of that movement was a May 2015 federal ban on transferring certain militarized equipment to local police departments. The ban largely began in response to ...

Those protests were met with a heavily armed police response that sparked wide debate over the militarization of local law enforcement. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National ...

The Hess police cruiser reflects the militarization of local police departments. By 2020, the Department of Defense’s Federal Excess Property program (1033 program) had disbursed $7 billion in ...