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US police are increasingly using surplus military equipment. In 2015, North Dakota became the first use state to allow police use of drones armed with less than lethal weapons such as [[taser]]s, [[rubber bullet]]s and [[tear gas]] after a last-minute push by a lobbyist.<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html</ref>
 
US police are increasingly using surplus military equipment. In 2015, North Dakota became the first use state to allow police use of drones armed with less than lethal weapons such as [[taser]]s, [[rubber bullet]]s and [[tear gas]] after a last-minute push by a lobbyist.<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/26/first-state-legalizes-armed-drones-for-cops-thanks-to-a-lobbyist.html</ref>
  
 
===Homicides===
 
===Homicides===
In March 2015, US police killed 111 people, over twice the total that the [[UK police]] killed in the entire 20th century.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkX-UybXo_I</ref> Police homicide rates have reached the point where by 2017, one-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.<ref>https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/</ref>
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In March 2015, US police killed 111 people, over twice the total that the [[UK police]] killed in the entire 20th century.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkX-UybXo_I</ref> In 2017, according to the database Mapping Police Violence, US police killed 1,129 US citizens in 2017, up from 963 in 2016.<ref>https://www.alternet.org/human-rights/police-violence-2017</ref> By 2017, one-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.<ref>https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/</ref>
  
 
===SWAT===
 
===SWAT===

Revision as of 12:12, 3 January 2018

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A poster from Occupy

U.S. Police are officially responsible for preserving law and order in US, preventing crimes. Every year, US police spend millions on mass surveillance tools for cellphones, but as of 2017 there were still few rules about what happens to the information they capture.[1]

Militarization

Us police wagon.jpg

US police are increasingly using surplus military equipment. In 2015, North Dakota became the first use state to allow police use of drones armed with less than lethal weapons such as tasers, rubber bullets and tear gas after a last-minute push by a lobbyist.[2]

Homicides

In March 2015, US police killed 111 people, over twice the total that the UK police killed in the entire 20th century.[3] In 2017, according to the database Mapping Police Violence, US police killed 1,129 US citizens in 2017, up from 963 in 2016.[4] By 2017, one-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.[5]

SWAT

Full article: SWAT

An invention of the LAPD, SWAT teams (Special Weapons And Tactics) are increasingly used by US police, mostly to raid private homes as part of the "war on drugs". Live streaming head cameras have lead to 'swatting' as a prank,[6][7] sometimes with fatal consequences.[8]

Activities

Some US police joined and some covertly supported the Occupy Wall St. movement.

 

An event carried out

EventLocationDescription
Wakefield standoffMassachusetts
US
A standoff between an anti-government militia and the police, in July 2021 in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

 

Examples

Page nameDescription
Capitol PoliceThe US Capitol police is tasked with protecting the US Capitol, receiving a budget of $500 million. Full of racial discrimination according to former personnel since the 2000s. Some dozen officers have been arrested in aiding the mob that attacked them in the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots.
Chicago Police Department
LAPD
NYPD

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Sunny Sheu“The ultimate, terrifying moral of the Sunny Sheu story is this: If you are threatened with death by the police in the USA, there is no where you can go for protection, and after you are killed, there is no where your friends and loved ones can go for justice. That is why this story is of critical important to every American citizen.”Sunny Sheu
Will Galison
January 2016

 

Event Witnessed

EventLocation(s)Description
Atlanta sex trafficking operationAtlanta
Georgia (State)
US
A sex trafficking operation in Atlanta.
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