The White House recently issued a Executive Order It is titled to “strengthen and commit to enforce the law of America to maintain criminals and protects innocent citizens.”
Claiming that local leaders “enraged” law enforcement and the political positive, “the mandate of prison, and increased security payments, and prison security. It also taught the General of the Attorney, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Homeland secretary to “increase the provision of military and National Security Assets to help state and local law enforcement.”
While it may be reasonable, giving military equipment and civilian synonyms can be more harmful than good. Most critical, more stimulating the line between police and military – two institutions designed for different purposes.
Since the establishment of the country, the laws refer to separate police and military roles. The police are a civilian peacekeepers. Expect to protect the rights of all individuals they encounter – victims and suspects together – and use force as a final resort.
The military, contrary, trained for war: to join and destroy enemies. Active, often violent engagement with enemy warriors about work.
I have writings else About How does this separation have Mad at the timeMost because of US policy efforts like war on drugs and warfare. Tools and tactics developed for abroad campaigns cannot be avoided to find their return home. The beginning of foreign targets ending applied by the content – American targets citizens. These “enemies” are often defined or unknown.
Consequently, local police changes as top line lines. Because of this shift, they adopted the tools and strategies of war.
It is not difficult to find clear examples. Think about the progress of Special weapons and tacticsOr SWAT, teams. The origin of the Los Angeles police department, the SWAT units are marked after the elite military units used in Vietnam. By 1982, almost 60% of US police departments SWAT teams. A decade later, almost 90% did, with approximately 50,000 of 80,000 SWAT each year. Many have resulted in botched raids, damage or deaths of civilians and officials, and the destruction of property.
It’s not just tactics – this is also using. In 1981, Congress passed Military cooperation with law enforcement actionthat the Department of Defense is allowed to share intelligence and advise local police. It also allowed the transfer of military equipment to local agencies to implement drugs, customs and immigration laws. Pentagon approved nearly 10,000 requests within three years.
In 1990, Congress has expanded these efforts in the 1208 program, later replaced in 1997 in 1033 programs. This program continues with military equipment in local agencies. Thousands of departments received goods from armored vehicles to attack rifles in bayonets.
A critical error in the 1033 program is “use it or lose it“Trupo: Agencies should use equipment or return it. It makes a dangerous incentive to deploy military gear even if not necessary.
Handling is small. Remove the use of cell-site simulators, or “Stingrays“What soldiers cells recognize the data from adjacent phones. These modifying data monitoring data about the data displays of the data dismissal data in Monitoring data in areas not obtained with data of suspicious data about any data recruitment of monitoring data revision data regulates data about data restrictions.
Too bad, local agencies often signed agencies in decay of federal agencies, which re-benefiting their technology from public investigation. As a result, there is little transparency about how these devices are given – or against whom.
More than tactics and technologies, military influence is also Police culture. Officers now always describe their beats as “battlefields.” Many departments promote “warrior thinking,” teaching officers to teach themselves as warriors than community servants.
We all want to be in safe communities. But this executive command is not the path to reaching them. However, it promises more than the same: Continuing the civilian character of the policing and a steady march to military enforcement of the law.
Abigail R. Hall, a senior partner of Independent Institute In Oakland and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa, a co-author of “how to run wars: a confidential playbook for National Security Elite.”
