Amy Goodman
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Arming the Warrior Cop: From Guns to Drones, Inside the Booming Business of Police Militarization
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October 29, 2014
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18:11Now PlayingIn a new cover story for Mother Jones magazine, "The Making of the Warrior Cop," senior reporter Shane Bauer goes inside the corporations and government departments involved in enabling police departments to acquire anything from bayonets to semiautomatic rifles and drones. Reporting from the exposition called "Urban Shield" which organizers call the largest firstresponder training in the world Bauer says that the equipment police departments have received from the military pales in comparison to the amount of gear purchased from private companies. The Department of Homeland Security has provided some $41 billion in funding to local police departments to buy the equipment from various corporations, on top of more than $5 billion from the Pentagon since 1997.
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