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 Ferguson really about police militarization (Original post) |
damnedifIknow | Nov 2014 | OP |
| Wella | Nov 2014 | #1 | |
| woo me with science | Nov 2014 | #2 | |
| Scuba | Dec 2014 | #4 | |
| BootinUp | Nov 2014 | #3 |
Response to damnedifIknow (Original post)
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 09:59 AM
2. K&R This is federally driven, bipartisan, and as much a part of the growing police state
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as the mass surveillance, prison industrial complex, and assaults on journalism, other political protesters, and whistleblowers.
Corporate Republicans and the corporate Third Way are not just another flavor of politician within an essentially functioning representative government. They are ushering in fascism and dismantling democracy itself. ___________________________________________________________________________ The entire Democratic leadership opposed Grayson amendment to stop arming cops with DOD weapons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424 WOW... Went Looking For Connections Between Ferguson And ALEC... Found This Piece Of The Puzzle...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025413841 The exploitation of Ferguson I: In 2013 the town issued over 24,000 arrest warrants..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667 The exploitation of Ferguson II: The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416747 The exploitation of Ferguson III: Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025428157 Police Militarization (including the Obama administration's role)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope. The final ACLU report on militarization of police in America
https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-police-report "Operation Urban Shield"...Training our Police, Fire, First Responders..in Military Tactics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025412909 WOW... Went Looking For Connections Between Ferguson And ALEC... Found This Piece Of The Puzzle...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025413841 The exploitation of Ferguson I: In 2013 the town issued over 24,000 arrest warrants.. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667 The exploitation of Ferguson II: The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416747 The exploitation of Ferguson III: Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025428157 Poor minorities are worthless to corporations on the street. In prison they can bring in $40,000/yr http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023368969 Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014158005 The Caging of America - Why do we lock up so many people http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002226110 The Obama administration is aggressively growing private prisons http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022568681 Obama's 2013 budget: One area of marked growth, the prison industrial complex http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002392306 Obama selects the owner of a private prison consulting firm as the new Director of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/mars-d03.html Private prison corporations move up on list on federal contractors, receiving BILLIONS http://www.nationofchange.org/president-obama-s-incarcernation-1335274655 Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784% in 10 Year Span http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4362184 Prison Labor Booms As Unemployment Remains High; Companies Reap Benefits http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272036.html Private Prison Corporation's Letters to Shareholders Reveal Industry's Tactics: Profiting from Human Incarceration http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022665091 Financial growth of private prison industry...Profiting from caging humans. http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BshteP8i282pcaeH8pdUsA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTUyMA--/ We heard about private prisons...but do you know of the private probation industry? http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025380204 NYT: Probation Fees Rise, Firms Profit and the Poor Go to Jail http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002893040 No Safe Place: How Cities Are Making It Illegal to be Homeless http://www.democraticunderground.com/101699724 Thrown in jail for being poor: the booming for-profit probation industry http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024603515 Police Militarization (including the Obama administration's role) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html The final ACLU report on militarization of police in America https://www.aclu.org/criminal-law-reform/war-comes-home-excessive-militarization-american-police-report "Operation Urban Shield"...Training our Police, Fire, First Responders..in Military Tactics http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025412909 |
, its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”
Response to damnedifIknow (Original post)
Sun Nov 30, 2014, 01:07 PM
BootinUp (42,253 posts)
3. Needs a kick!
