Sep 10, 2006
Militarized Police
Rodney Balko has released a new book, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. Read about it here.
The book is important for two reasons. First, it has an disturbing story to tell of how the police can and do break into SAmericans' homes and kill them, even when innocent, with no reprucussions.
Second, for those so-called classical liberals who still, insanely, provide excuses for the right wingers they think of as erring allies, consider the probable reaction of the Republican Party to Balko's book compared to Daily Kos which praises the book. Kos, of course, is the prime site for what is now called the left wing of the Democratic Party.
The book is important for two reasons. First, it has an disturbing story to tell of how the police can and do break into SAmericans' homes and kill them, even when innocent, with no reprucussions.
Second, for those so-called classical liberals who still, insanely, provide excuses for the right wingers they think of as erring allies, consider the probable reaction of the Republican Party to Balko's book compared to Daily Kos which praises the book. Kos, of course, is the prime site for what is now called the left wing of the Democratic Party.