Event Title
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
Description
Across the country, heavily-armed SWAT teams are forcing their way into people's homes in the middle of the night, often using explosives to temporarily blind and deafen residents, simply to serve a search warrant for a small amount of drugs. As we have seen recently in Ferguson, police officers in camouflage tote military rifles and patrol in the same armored vehicles used in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. But this is America: our neighborhoods are not war zones, and our police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. My talk will focus on how we got here, and what we can do about it.
About the Lecturers: Peter Danelo, Seattle lawyer and Clifford Cook, Bellingham Chief of Police.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
5-2-2015 12:00 PM
End Date
5-2-2015 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Militarization of police--United States; Police training--United States; Police--Special weapons and tactical units; Police shootings--United States; Drug control--United States
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Excessive American policing, War on drugs
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Across the country, heavily-armed SWAT teams are forcing their way into people's homes in the middle of the night, often using explosives to temporarily blind and deafen residents, simply to serve a search warrant for a small amount of drugs. As we have seen recently in Ferguson, police officers in camouflage tote military rifles and patrol in the same armored vehicles used in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. But this is America: our neighborhoods are not war zones, and our police officers should not be treating us like wartime enemies. My talk will focus on how we got here, and what we can do about it.
About the Lecturers: Peter Danelo, Seattle lawyer and Clifford Cook, Bellingham Chief of Police.
