Occam's Banana
05-28-2014, 06:41 PM
SWAT and PPU Evidence of Increasing U.S. Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/swat-and-ppu-evidence-of-increasing-u-s-police-state/
Michael S. Rozeff (28 May 2014)
Professor Peter B. Kraska has been researching the militarization of local police for many years. See here (http://lib.radford.edu/archives/Police%20Forum%20Vol%2014%20No%203.pdf) and here (http://cjmasters.eku.edu/sites/cjmasters.eku.edu/files/21stmilitarization.pdf) for some of his work and thought on this topic. He provides many formal and informal insights about the changed police culture.
SWAT raids are running at a vastly higher annual number than in the 1980s (from 3,000 to about 50,000). A PPU is a Police Paramilitary Unit. These have seen exponential growth:
“This militarization was evidenced by a precipitous rise and mainstreaming of PPUs. As of the late 1990s, about 89% of police departments in the United States serving populations of 50,000 people or more had a PPU, almost double of what existed in the mid-1980s. Their growth in smaller jurisdictions (agencies serving between 25 and 50,000 people) was even more pronounced. Currently, about 80% of small town agencies have a PPU; in the mid-1980s only 20% had them.”
When LRC writers mention U.S. police state, it is neither fiction nor imagination at work. The evidence for it is strong and significant.
SEE ALSO: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452943-Evidence-of-Growing-U-S-Police-State-Asset-Forfeiture
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/swat-and-ppu-evidence-of-increasing-u-s-police-state/
Michael S. Rozeff (28 May 2014)
Professor Peter B. Kraska has been researching the militarization of local police for many years. See here (http://lib.radford.edu/archives/Police%20Forum%20Vol%2014%20No%203.pdf) and here (http://cjmasters.eku.edu/sites/cjmasters.eku.edu/files/21stmilitarization.pdf) for some of his work and thought on this topic. He provides many formal and informal insights about the changed police culture.
SWAT raids are running at a vastly higher annual number than in the 1980s (from 3,000 to about 50,000). A PPU is a Police Paramilitary Unit. These have seen exponential growth:
“This militarization was evidenced by a precipitous rise and mainstreaming of PPUs. As of the late 1990s, about 89% of police departments in the United States serving populations of 50,000 people or more had a PPU, almost double of what existed in the mid-1980s. Their growth in smaller jurisdictions (agencies serving between 25 and 50,000 people) was even more pronounced. Currently, about 80% of small town agencies have a PPU; in the mid-1980s only 20% had them.”
When LRC writers mention U.S. police state, it is neither fiction nor imagination at work. The evidence for it is strong and significant.
SEE ALSO: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?452943-Evidence-of-Growing-U-S-Police-State-Asset-Forfeiture