Tag: Police Militarization

Officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson. Police identified Wilson, 28, as the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014 in Ferguson. Police departments across the country are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict Wilson. (AP Photo/City of Ferguson, File)

National Security

Jay Nixon activates Missouri National Guard

Kelly Cohen · November 17, 2014 8:25 pm

In this Oct. 6, 2013 photo, Los Angeles Airport Police team up with City of Los Angeles Police officers in a joint training session on counterterrorism in Ontario, Calif. After spending a decade sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the United States, Washington is reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Mo., amid images of heavily-armed police, snipers trained on protesters and tear gas plumes. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)

Pentagon overhauling program that gives military gear to local cops

Charles Hoskinson · November 14, 2014 12:40 am

"This is America. People have a right to express their views and opinions," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said, but noting that doing so should not put other people's safety at risk. (AP Photo)

Gov. Jay Nixon on Ferguson: ‘Violence will not be tolerated’

Kelly Cohen · November 11, 2014 8:49 pm

Red Alert Politics

College president pays for student’s books after losing ‘Madden NFL’ tournament

Morgan Chalfant · October 21, 2014 3:28 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2014 file image from video released by the City of Ferguson, Mo., officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson. Wilson has told authorities that Michael Brown reached for the gun during a scuffle, the Times reported in a story posted on its website Friday night Oct. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/City of Ferguson, File)

Report: Ferguson officer says he feared for life

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 5:41 pm

‘Weekend of Resistance’: Marchers descend on St. Louis for second day of demonstrations against police shootings

Sean Lengell · October 11, 2014 9:13 pm

What the Secret Service needs is something every law enforcement agency needs: Weapons that can incapacitate threatening suspects without inflicting deadly wounds, writes Chapman.Â (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dangerous people and deadly force

Steve Chapman · October 1, 2014 6:24 pm

Beltway Confidential

Florida cop suspended for tasing a 62-year-old woman

Becket Adams · October 1, 2014 3:09 pm

Student protesters stand behind barricades used to occupy the streets surrounding the government headquarters in Hong Kong, China, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. Riot police in Hong Kong on Saturday arrested scores of students who stormed the government headquarters compound during a night of scuffles to protest China's refusal to allow genuine democratic reforms in the semiautonomous city. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

National Security

HK activists start bigger protest amid standoff

JOANNA CHIUKELVIN CHAN · September 28, 2014 3:51 am

Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Voting Rights Brain Trust event Friday during the 2014 Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

An unfortunate legacy

David Limbaugh · September 26, 2014 4:35 pm

Beltway Confidential

The terrifying video that explains why a former S.C. trooper is now being charged with a felony

Becket Adams · September 25, 2014 6:08 pm

Rep. Hank Johnson finds himself in the middle of a national debate about the militarization of local police. (AP Photo/Paul Abell)

After Ferguson, interest in demilitarizing police has ‘exploded’

Susan Crabtree · September 22, 2014 9:00 am