Radley Balko has written a persuasive and enraging account about the militarization of United States police forces since the 1970s. Balko describes how a clutch of factors like the 1965 Watts Riot, the 1966 University of Texas bell tower sniper, Black Panther-Police clashes in Los Angeles, and Pr...
. . victory over the Fourth Amendment is complete.—WILLIAM BRENNANWilliam French set the tone for the Reagan administration early on. In one of the first cabinet meetings, the new attorney general declared, “The Justice Department is not a domestic agency. It is the internal arm of the national d...