President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Officials in the nation’s capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and ...

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 ...

There was no law prohibiting the training of police in military methods ... gaze on the nation that considered itself the world’s icon of freedom and human rights. In early December, Frank ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interactions with tactical units can be among the most violent citizen-police encounters. These units rely on the use of military-like weapons, flashbangs, battering rams and a range of other ...