Has the U.S. become a police state?
Swat raids up by 10X in 20 years, most just to execute a search warrant
Heavy militarization of police forces
More people fatally shot by police per DAY than by British police in 3 YEARS
9 Federal gov't agencies have swat teams - Dept of Education, NASA, Consumer Product Safety Commission, etc.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)