Rise in U.S. Police State Infrastructure

If the seeds of fascism are planted, how can we tell whether or not they will grow and multiply?

From the BBC:

Peter Kraska, an expert on police militarisation from Eastern Kentucky University, says that in the 1980s there were about 3,000 Swat team deployments annually across the US, but says now there are at least 40,000 per year.

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"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy."