Rise of the warrior cop is an interesting book about the police state we find ourselves into today. This process of the militarization of the police force is brilliantly explained in this masterpiece by Radly Balko . The book gives a brief history of the formation of the police force about 1840 in America and then goes into detail the key landmarks and court decisions from the past forty years that have expanded the police power in this nation. We have a police force that resembles a mix of Middle East dictatorship and the white guys from the star wars movies.
This book will give protesters a more in depth analysis of what they will face as police have turned to tough practices to protect the upper elements in society and their institutions. Radly details key moments in history that allowed SWAT teams basically to bust into peoples homes or parties if they even suspect an ounce of marijuana may lay in wait. He shows how the drug war and these raids help fund the military machine from all sorts of police departments across the nation from large cities to local municipalities. The militarization of the police force is a key cultural shift that we need to have exposed in order to perserve our liberties that these mini-armies threaten all over the land. Hopefully more books like this one comes out.
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