{"id":44348,"date":"2014-08-14T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/when-special-weapons-and-tactics-arent-all-that-special.html"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:05:28","slug":"when-special-weapons-and-tactics-arent-all-that-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/14\/when-special-weapons-and-tactics-arent-all-that-special.html","title":{"rendered":"When “Special Weapons and Tactics” aren’t all that special"},"content":{"rendered":"
Makes one wonder, between the War on Drugs and the War on Terror and the leftovers from the War in Iraq, where else we might have put all that money that wouldn't have involved so many flash-bang raids on houses that didn't really need flash-bang raids.\u00a0\ufeff<\/div>\n

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10 facts about the SWATification of the US<\/a>
\n SWAT team raids in the US have gone up 25-fold since 1980. Time’s recent article about the militarization of the police reports that “the federal government has funneled $4.3 billion of military property to law enforcement ag…\n <\/p>\n

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Makes one wonder, between the War on Drugs and the War on Terror and the leftovers from the War in Iraq, where else we might have put all that money that wouldn't have involved so many flash-bang raids on houses that didn't really need flash-bang raids.\u00a0\ufeff 10 facts about the SWATification of the US SWAT … Continue reading “When “Special Weapons and Tactics” aren’t all that special”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17,349,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","category-military","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42346,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/the-house-of-representatives-actually-approved-of-something-rational-inconceiva.html","url_meta":{"origin":44348,"position":0},"title":"The House of Representatives actually approved of something rational? 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