WaPo | The Pentagon’s surplus military gear giveaways include even police agencies under federal sanction for patterns of excessive force and civil rights violations.
St. Louis police will get post-Ferguson media training on how to win the media after a questionable police shooting.
I’m no PR specialist, but perhaps a better use of this money would have
been to invest in better training so there are fewer questionable
police shootings to spin.
Why is the USDA buying submachine guns? Because that’s what federal regulatory agencies do now.
Indianapolis police chief says law enforcement officers are “soldiers in an army” preparing to “go into battle.”
Police agencies are alarmed by the new encryption being built into smart phones. That seems like a good sign that the tech companies are getting it right.
