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Militarization of police

August 19, 2023

The militarization of police (paramilitarization of police in some media) is the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.[1] This includes the use of armored personnel carriers (APCs), assault rifles, submachine guns, flashbang grenades,[2] sniper rifles, and SWAT (special weapons and tactics) teams.[3][4] The militarization of law enforcement is also associated with intelligence agency–style information gathering aimed at the public and political activists[5][6] and with a more aggressive style of law enforcement.[7][8] Criminal justice professor Peter Kraska has defined militarization of police as "the process whereby civilian police increasingly draw from, and pattern themselves around, the tenets of militarism and the military model".[9]

Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team members, some armed with assault rifles, preparing for an exercise
A large group of Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) SWAT officers in tactical gear at a Lakers parade in 2009

Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests.[10][11] Since the 1970s, riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets.[12] Tear gas, which was developed by the United States Army for riot control in 1919, is still widely used against protesters. The use of tear gas in warfare is prohibited by various international treaties[13] that most states have signed; however, its law enforcement or military use for domestic or non-combat situations is permitted.

Concerns about the militarization of police have been raised by both ends of the political spectrum in the United States, with both the libertarian Cato Institute[14] and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[15] voicing criticisms of the practice. The Fraternal Order of Police has spoken out in favor of equipping law enforcement officers with military equipment, claiming that it increases the officers' safety and enables them to protect members of the public and other first responders (e.g., firefighters and emergency medical services personnel).[16] However, a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of local crime rates.[17] A 2018 study found that militarized police units in the United States were more frequently deployed to communities with large shares of African-Americans, even after controlling for local crime rates.[18]

Many countries also have at least one gendarmerie, which is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population.

France classifies some weapons as "intermediary force weapons" such as its LBD 40 refitted version of the Swiss B&T GL06 military grenade launcher, which is used in riot police situations or against individual persons in more specific interventions.

While not having the full power of military guns, some weapons are heavier than regular police weaponry and are still lethal. These are often referred to with the "limited lethality" appellation.

Brazil

 
A Brazilian Federal Highway Police tactical team in the 2022 Independence Day parade.

In 2013 "... Brazil saw countrywide demonstrations protesting a lack of basic services while the country was spending billions on the World Cup and the Olympics. The unprepared and overreacting police forces responded in a way that shocked the largely middle-class protesters. The police, using "non-lethal" weapons like pepper spray and rubber bullets while dressed from head to toe in ninja-like full battle gear, indiscriminately arrested both violent 'black bloc' demonstrators, known for their confrontational tactics and anarchist views, along with non-violent protestors marching peacefully." As a result, "... calls for de-militarization of the police—from social movements, non-governmental organizations, and even segments of the police itself—became widespread and remain one of the legacies of the World Cup". The Brazilian "... Military Police today, while not officially a wing of the Armed Forces, remains an institution with a strict military hierarchy, training that retains a military ideology, and practices that frequently resemble occupying forces conquering enemy territories".[19]

The units that responded to the protests were Shock Police, units specialized in riot control. The Military Police is an ancillary and reserve force of the Army, under the General Inspectorate of Military Police, being that a part of Land Operations Command. But, in time of peace, the state governor act as commander-in-chief of the Police and Firefighting Corps, according to the Constitution of Brazil, article 144, 6th paragraph, where it is said that the "Military Police and Firefighter Corps, ancillary and reserve forces of the Army, subordinate themselves, with the Civil Police, to the state and Federal District governors."[20]

The Brazilian Federal Highway Police (PRF) was also criticized for the creation of tactical teams during the Bolsonaro administration, during a process that was seen by some as a politically-charged militarization of the force.[21] During this period, PRF tactical teams gained notoriety after taking part in two high-profile operations. The first one, which sought to apprehend criminals responsible for planning a series of high-profile bank robberies across the country known as the Novo Cangaço (New Cangaço), left 26 suspects dead after a raid in Varginha in October 2021. The second one, a joint incursion with BOPE in the Vila Cruzeiro favela of Rio de Janeiro, left 23 dead, including one civilian.[21] Minister of Justice Flávio Dino of the Lula administration that followed sought to reestructure the organization, mentioning the 2022 election controversy and claiming that it had "deviated" from its main role,[22] requiring a "depoliticization".[21][23]

Canada

 
A Barrie Police officer in full riot gear at the 2010 G20 Toronto summit protests

Canadian legal expert Michael Spratt wrote, "... there's no question that Canadian police sometimes look more like post-apocalyptic military mercenaries than protectors of the peace. Our police services have been acquiring more and more military toys—a dangerous trend that's gotten little in the way of critical analysis in the mainstream media."[24] Growing numbers of Canadian police agencies have acquired armored vehicles in recent years.[25] In 2010 the Ottawa Police Service bought a Lenco G3 BearCat APC for $340,000, which has "half-inch-thick military steel armoured bodywork, .50 caliber-rated ballistic glass, blast-resistant floors, custom-designed gun ports and ... a roof turret".[26]

The G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 showed that the militarization of protest policing is not only occurring in the United States. Police in Toronto used a sound cannon, or Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)—a weapon that was developed for use in conflicts in the Middle East, as well as barricades, pre-emptive arrests and riot units.[27] According to Kevin Walby, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg, "the more interesting aspect of the militarization of the police is actually on the strategy side"; police are "increasingly training with military-style tacticians, especially when it comes to situations like crowd control and, increasingly, surveillance".[28]

On June 3, 2015, it was reported that "RCMP officers have started openly carrying MP5 submachine guns on Parliament Hill as part of a visible increase to Parliament Hill security following last October's terrorist attack" in 2014.[29] Conservative senator Vern White, a former RCMP officer and a former Ottawa police chief, says "... some RCMP officers guarding Parliament Hill against potential terrorist attacks should be armed with rifles similar to those carried by Canadian troops in Afghanistan [,]" the "... more powerful Colt C8 [which is] popular with police tactical teams and Canadian and other NATO alliance troops". White argues that the C8 carbines would give officers a much longer shooting range than the short-barreled MP5 submachine guns. "The RCMP is issuing more than 2,200 C8 carbines to its officers [,]" but the RCMP has not indicated whether the C8s will be issued to Parliament Hill officers.[30]

The use of surplus armored vehicles for use by the RCMP and other police forces throughout the country are challenged by lawyers and academics since they can easily send the wrong message to the public.[31] According to Michael Spratt, an Ottawa-based criminal lawyer, the funds used to acquire the vehicles is better used for crime prevention activities.[32]

Colombia

 
A Survivor R in blue-silver varnish for the German NRW Police as displayed at Eurosatory 2016

"Since 1999, an eight-billion-dollar programme in Colombia has seen "the mass deployment of military troops and militarized police forces to both interdict illegal drugs and counter left-wing guerrilla groups". This assistance "promote[s] militarization to address organized crime".[33] Due to these U.S. policies, "civilian forces ... have increasingly received military training, leading to concerns over human rights violations and excessive use of force, as well as a lack of knowledge over how to deal with local protests—concerns startlingly similar to those now coming out of Ferguson, Missouri".[33]

France

French police since the Charlie Hebdo shootings started to issue heavier guns to police instead of the standard Sig Sauer SP 2022 pistol issued per default. Before this heavier guns were only given to elite units but some units are now getting heavier weaponry such as the anti-criminality brigades which was given H&K G36 assault rifles.[34] 18 of the 19 shootings with this weapon were accidental discharges, the first year when this weapon was issued to anti-criminality policemen [34]

Companies Republicaines de Sécurité which are an anti-riot unit are issued grenades which are classified as war weaponry in France. If gas weapons are forbidden for military use by the Geneva convention which is signed by France but no restriction applies to civilian use.[35]

Basing himself on the model of the Gendarmerie France's Interior's Minister Gérald Darmanin said he wished to extend the police reserve of 30 000 reservists (against the 5000 men reserve) to "recreate links" with police forces. This comes during the protests against the Loi Sécurité Globale.[36][37][38]

Germany

In 2016, the German police introduced a new special unit, BFE+, which is designed to "counter terror attacks".[39] Criminologist Rafael Behr says the new BFE+ [de] "mainly serves as a psychological reassurance for the public", serving as a "symbolic" effort and a functional effort.[39]

The functional aspect is that with the BFE+, the government can use armed forces with military weapons inside Germany, an act that is "currently banned by the German constitution".[39] The 250 person BFE+ will be added to the existing GSG-9 unit. Behr states that the BFE+ will be able to "launch large-scale manhunts", using an "end of the policing spectrum" which "borders on war-like or military action".[39]

Indonesia

 
Brimob troops of the Indonesian National Police

The Mobile Brigade Corps (Brimob) is an Indonesian militarized police force (Paramilitary) which are often deployed for Riot control, SWAT operations, anti-terror, domestic guerrilla warfare, domestic civil hostage rescue, search and rescue, and armed conflict management especially in areas with domestic conflict, such as in Papua and Poso.[40] It usually conducts joint operations with the TNI.

Mexico

Mexico's new national police force, the Gendarmería, is partially staffed with active duty soldiers, part of a longstanding trend towards militarization of the country's Federal Police.[41]

According to a 2020 study, the use of torture by police has persisted in Mexico even though Mexico transitioned to democracy. Torture is still used due to "weak procedural protections and the militarization of policing, which introduces strategies, equipment, and mentality that treats criminal suspects as though they were enemies in wartime".[42]

United Kingdom

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was the police force in Ireland from 1822 until 1922, when the country was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This was a time of agrarian unrest and Irish nationalist/republican agitation. The RIC was a quasi-military police force: constables were armed with rifles, billeted in barracks, and the force had a militaristic structure and uniform.[43] During the Irish War of Independence, it was tasked with tackling the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and worked alongside the British Army. An Auxiliary Division and Ulster Special Constabulary were formed to carry out counter-guerrilla operations.

The RIC became the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland, which remained part of the UK. It remained a militarized police force due to the threat of IRA attacks. During the Northern Ireland conflict (1960s–1990s), the RUC routinely carried submachine guns and assault rifles, traveled in armored Land Rovers, were based in heavily fortified police stations[44] and worked alongside the British Army, sometimes mounting joint patrols and sharing the same bases. The RUC was the first police force to use rubber and plastic bullets for riot control. The "political and militarised"[45] RUC was succeeded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland, which continues to keep some counter-terrorism powers. Since the 2000s, its public order policing methods have been adopted by other police forces in the UK.[46]

United States

Professional police departments have changed over time in the United States. The first professionalized police departments in the United States were modeled on the London Metropolitan Police.[citation needed] They were under civilian control and were nonmilitaristic in the sense that they eschewed military uniforms, weaponry and training. According to Julian Go of Boston University, police departments in the United States became increasingly militarized in the early 20th century as they "borrowed tactics, techniques, and organizational templates from America's imperial-military regime that had been developed to conquer and rule foreign populations".[47] Historian Stuart Schrader has linked the experiences of World War II to later militarization of police in the United States.[48]

20th century

 
The "Anti-Bandit Gun": a 1920s advertisement of the Thompson M1921 for United States law enforcement forces

During the early 20th century, police departments in the United States adopted several military innovations such as centralized chains of command, professionalization (training and discipline), military operations and tactics (in particular, colonial counterinsurgency tactics), "open-order" units, and counterinsurgency information-gathering techniques.[47] Many of these reforms were influenced by practices from the Philippine–American War and subsequent U.S. occupation of the Philippines.[47] An influential advocate for these police reforms was August Vollmer, who has been described as the "father of modern policing".[47] Vollmer devised syllabi which were used in police training courses.[47]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), as well as police departments in cities such as Kansas City, Missouri[49] and Kenosha, Wisconsin,[50] began deploying automatic weapons, including the Thompson submachine gun, and armored cars in the 1920s and 1930s.

 
An FBI officer firing a Colt Monitor in 1936

George Fletcher Chandler, a veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition and the first Superintendent of the New York State Police, was an early advocate of law enforcement officers wearing their weapons exposed on the outside of their uniforms.[51]

Police militarization was escalated in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s as an era in which race riots and anti-war protests were common in many U.S. cities. Some believe the seeming success of officers armed with military-style weapons and deployed to curtail the 1965 Watts riots, a six-day race riot sparked by conflicts with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) that killed 34 people, gave way to the trend of arming and equipping law enforcement officers with battlefield weapons.[52] Joy Rohde, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, has published research indicating that "militarization is a mindset ... a tendency to see the world through the lens of national security, a tendency to exaggerate existing threats". Rohde traces "the origins of modern militarized policing" to the Cold War-era anti-communist paranoia, and the idea that domestic civil rights activists were similar to foreign enemies, as manifested in activities such as the CIA's Operation CHAOS.[53]

According to Harvard University professor Elizabeth Hinton, the 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act ushered in a new era where the federal government facilitated the militarization of police at the state and local level across the United States.[54]

Over the last hundred years, with the rise of acts of terrorism and the availability of high-powered weapons, special weapons and tactics teams have been implemented and are being utilized across the United States.[55] The 1960s to the 1990s, encounters with the sophisticated weapons of narcotics trafficking groups such as the Medellín Cartel and street gangs such as the Gangster Disciples, with organized, left-wing protesters at such events as the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the 1999 WTO Conference in Seattle,[56] with urban riots such as the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, the 1967 Detroit riot, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots led law enforcement to reconsider their standard side arms. Law enforcement agencies encountered groups such as Earth Liberation Front (ELF),[57][58] and incidents such as the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, the 1986 FBI Miami shootout between eight FBI agents and two serial bank robbers (in which the agents were out-gunned by the robbers), and the 1997 North Hollywood shootout.

Researchers David N. Falcone, Edward L. Wells, and Ralph A. Weisheit describe a historical separation of police models between small towns and larger cities, which tended to function differently with separate hierarchical systems supporting each.[59] The militarization of both rural and urban law enforcement has been attributed to the United States' involvement in wars during the 20th century, and to increasingly frequent encounters with violent protesters and criminals with automatic weapons, explosives, and body armor, although some attribute the militarization to the more recent campaigns known as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.[60][61] Historian Charles A. Beard argues that cultural change during the Great Depression encouraged the militarization of law enforcement,[62] whereas Harwood argues that the creation of SWAT teams and tactical units within law enforcement during the 1960s began the trend.

 
Homeland Security armored vehicle

The 1981 Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act allows the U.S. military to cooperate with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. Operations in support of law enforcement include assistance in counter-drug operations, assistance for civil disturbances, special security operations, counter-terrorism, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), and similar activities. Constitutional and statutory restrictions and corresponding directives and regulations limit the type of support provided in this area. This allows the U.S. military to give law enforcement agencies access to its military bases and its military equipment.[63] The legislation was promoted during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the context of the War on drugs, and is considered a part of a general trend towards the militarization of police.[63] The Act is cited in the 1992 essay The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 as having set a precedent that the author, a United States Air Force officer, considered dangerous.

The 1997 North Hollywood shootout had a profound effect on law enforcement agencies. Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with their standard issue 9×19mm pistols or .38 Special revolvers, while some had a pump-action 12-gauge shotgun available in their cars. The North Hollywood bank robbers carried fully automatic AK-47-style weapons with high capacity drum magazines and ammunition capable of penetrating vehicles and police Kevlar vests. With these weapons, two bank robbers fired approximately 1,100 rounds at officers and civilians before being killed. The robbers wore body armor which successfully protected them from bullets and shotgun pellets fired by the responding patrolmen. Police noted that the service pistols carried by the first responding officers had insufficient range and relatively poor accuracy, although a SWAT team eventually arrived with sufficient firepower.[citation needed] The ineffectiveness of the standard police patrol pistols and shotguns in penetrating the robbers' body armor led to a trend in the United States toward arming selected police officers, not just SWAT teams, with heavier firepower such as semi-automatic 5.56×45mm NATO AR-15 type rifles.[citation needed] SWAT teams, whose close quarters battle weaponry usually consisted of submachine guns that fired pistol cartridges such as the 9x19mm Heckler & Koch MP5, began supplementing them with AR-15 type rifles and carbines.[citation needed]

Seven months after the incident, the Department of Defense gave 600 surplus M16s to the LAPD, which were issued to each patrol sergeant;[64][65] LAPD patrol vehicles now carry AR-15s as standard issue, with bullet-resistant Kevlar plating in their doors as well.[66][full citation needed] As a result of this incident, the LAPD authorized its officers to carry .45 ACP caliber semiautomatic pistols as duty sidearms, specifically the Smith & Wesson Models 4506 and 4566. Prior to 1997, only LAPD SWAT officers were authorized to carry .45 ACP caliber pistols, specifically the Model 1911A1 .45 ACP semiautomatic pistol.[67]

 
A U.S. police officer armed with a holographic sight-equipped M4 carbine rifle during a training exercise

The militarization of police escalated with the 1033 Program, initiated by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, ostensibly to address organized drug trafficking.[68][69] The 1033 Program was documented in action through published and televised images of excessive force and armoured vehicles broadcast during the 2014 protests in Ferguson after Michael Brown was killed by police. The National Defense Authorization Act, as part of the U.S. Government's Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services (DLA) currently coordinates the transfer of excess military equipment to law enforcement agencies.[70] As of 2014, 8,000 local law enforcement agencies participate in the militarization program that has transferred $5.1 billion in military hardware from the United States Department of Defense to local American law enforcement agencies since 1997.[citation needed] Data from 2006 to 2014 shows that local and state police departments obtained aircraft, helicopters, bayonets, knives, night-vision sniper scopes, tactical armored vehicles or MRAP's, rifles and weapons including grenade launchers, watercraft, and camouflage gear, among other military equipment.[71]

21st century

Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement officers must receive written permission from a court of law, or otherwise qualified magistrate, to lawfully search and seize evidence while investigating criminal activity. The requirements changed after the September 11 attacks, with the 2001 Patriot Act which gave law enforcement officers permission to search a home or business without the owner's or the occupant's consent or knowledge, amongst other provisions, if terrorist activities were suspected. The Act was criticized for its violation of civil liberties and has generated a great deal of controversy since its enactment. In United States v. Antoine Jones, the court found that increased monitoring of suspects caused by the Patriot Act directly put the suspects' constitutional rights in jeopardy. For a time, the Patriot Act allowed for agents to undertake "sneak and peek"[citation needed] searches, a term used to describe breaking into a business or residence and entering without judicial oversight. Critics such as the ACLU strongly criticized the law for violating the Fourth Amendment.[72][73]

On May 18, 2015, President Barack Obama announced limits on the types of military equipment which can be transferred to police departments through the 1033 Program and limits on the implementation of military training programs. Afterward, the military was restricted from transferring some weapons, such as grenade launchers, weaponized vehicles, and bayonets to police.[74] Obama said, "We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like it's an occupying force as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them ... So we're going to prohibit equipment made for the battlefield that is not appropriate for local police departments."[75]

In response to Obama's announcement, the United States' largest police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, reacted negatively, pledging to push back against the new restrictions, and accusing the administration of politicizing officers' safety.[75] The executive director of the FOP, James Pasco, stated that his group "... (would) be at (their) most aggressive in asserting the need for officer safety and officer rights in any police changes that are to be effected", and objected to a requirement that police departments obtain permission from city governments to acquire certain equipment, including riot batons, helmets and shields, through federal programs.[75] Pasco stated "We need to only look back to Baltimore (the location of the 2015 protests following the death of Freddie Gray) to see what happens when officers are sent out ill-equipped in a disturbance situation ... Because you don't like the optics (of militarization), you can't send police officers out to be hurt or killed."[75]

In July 2016, the Obama administration announced that it would revisit the 2015 ban on some types of military equipment for police forces, and begin a process of case-by-case review.[76]

On August 28, 2017 U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the lifting of restrictions on the transfer of military equipment to law enforcement agencies.[77] Sessions said during his announcement that the Trump administration would not "put superficial concerns above public safety".[78]

ACLU spokesperson Kaya Bennett responded to Sessions and said, "We have an epidemic in the United States of police using excessive force, particularly against people of color, with injuries and deaths mounting", and "It defies logic to arm the police with weapons of war—grenade launchers, high-caliber assault weapons and more — but that's precisely what President Trump and Attorney General Sessions have decided to do."[79] Since the 1033 Program was initiated in 1990, more than 5.4 billion U.S. dollars of military equipment has been transferred by the Pentagon to local and state police.[79]

Louisiana State University conducted a study that suggests the militarization of local law enforcement has not lead to reduced crime levels. Particularly, the study cites evidence that the purchase of surplus military equipment does not increase the effect of policing locally.[80]

Allegations of a "war on police"

In 2015, journalist Radley Balko wrote an opinion column in which he described statements by politicians Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, and Dan Patrick that a "war on police" was taking place as "fact-free fear mongering" and a "dangerous game".[81] The statements had been made following prominent news reports of deaths by police officers; Balko wrote "2015 is on pace to see 35 felonious killings of police officers. If that pace holds, this year would end with the second lowest number of murdered cops in decades [and] ... not only are fewer people killing police officers, fewer people are trying to harm them."[81]

Notable incidents

MOVE bombing

Main article: 1985 MOVE bombing

On Monday, May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police attempted to clear a building occupied by MOVE black liberation activists and execute arrest warrants.[82] This led to an armed standoff with police,[83] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The police said that MOVE members fired at them; a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued. Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.[84] From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound bombs (which the police referred to as "entry devices") made of FBI-supplied water gel explosive, a dynamite substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[85]

The resulting explosions ignited a fire which spread and eventually destroyed approximately 65 nearby houses.[86] Eleven people (John Africa, five other adults, and five children aged 7 to 13) died in the resulting fire, and more than 250 people in the neighborhood were left homeless.[87] Ramona Africa, one of the two survivors, said police fired at those trying to escape.[88]

Ruby Ridge

In 1992, there was a deadly confrontation and a 12-day siege at Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho between Randy Weaver, his family and his friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). USMS and FBI agents were armed with M16s and sniper rifles, and they used an APC. It resulted in the deaths of two Weavers (Randy's son, Sammy and his wife, Vicki) and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan. At the subsequent federal criminal trial of Weaver and Harris, Weaver's attorney Gerry Spence made accusations of "criminal wrongdoing" against every agency involved in the incident: the FBI, USMS, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), and the United States Attorney's Office (USAO) for Idaho. At the completion of the trial, the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility formed a Ruby Ridge Task Force to investigate Spence's charges. The 1994 Task Force report was released in redacted form by Lexis Counsel Connect and raised questions about the conduct and policy of all the agencies. Public outcry over Ruby Ridge led to the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information holding 14 days of hearings and issuing a report calling for reforms in federal law enforcement to prevent a repeat of Ruby Ridge and to restore public confidence in federal law enforcement.

Waco

 
The Mount Carmel Center, engulfed in flames. Waco, Texas, April 19, 1993.

In 1993, FBI and BATFE agents used armored vehicles, tanks and attack helicopters during the siege of the Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas.[89] The FBI's arms included .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifles and M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles, which are based on an M60A1 Patton main battle tank chassis.[90] The FBI also launched 40-millimetre (1.6 in) CS grenade fire from M79 grenade launchers and fired two military M651 rounds at the Branch Davidian site. 40mm munitions recovered by the Texas Ranger Division at Waco included dozens of plastic Ferret Model SGA-400 Liquid CS rounds, two metal M651 military pyrotechnic tear gas rounds, two metal NICO Pyrotechnik Sound & Flash grenades, and parachute illumination flares.[91]

Other events

2005–2009
 
Riot police at the 2009 G20 meeting in Pittsburgh

In 2005, the Maryland State Police (MSP) began entering the names and personal information of death penalty opponents and anti-war protesters into a database used to track terrorists.[92]

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, employees of the private security firm Blackwater patrolled the city with automatic weapons. "When asked what authority they were operating under", journalist Jeremy Scahill reported, "one guy said, 'We're on contract with the Department of Homeland Security.'"[93][relevant?]

On August 25, 2008, the Denver Police Department (DPD) were accused of making mass, indiscriminate arrests of almost 100 protesters at the Democratic National Convention. In 2011, the city of Denver, Colorado agreed to pay a $200,000 settlement and to improve its crowd control training and policies.[94]

2010–2014

In February 2010, the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) raided the apartment of Rickia Russell, breaching the door and throwing in a flashbang grenade, as part of a search for drugs. At the time, Russell was eating dinner with her boyfriend and the exploding grenade gave her burns to her head and calves. No drugs were found in Russell's apartment and the Minneapolis City Council agreed to pay $1 million in damages.[95] In January 2011, Rogelio Serrato in Greenfield, California, died of smoke inhalation after a flashbang grenade launched by the SWAT team of the Greenfield Police Department (GPD) ignited a fire in his home.[95]

In May 2011, the Pima County Sheriff's department killed Marine and Iraq war veteran Jose Guerena, when they entered his home while serving a search warrant related to a marijuana smuggling investigation. They fired 71 shots into his home, while his wife and 4-year-old child were inside, and found no drugs nor anything illegal. The departments involved paid a $3.4 million settlement.[96][97][98][99]

Referring to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City, Glen Greenwald wrote, "The police response was so excessive, and so clearly modeled after battlefield tactics, that there was no doubt that deterring domestic dissent is one of the primary aims of police militarization."[100]

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) used excessive force while breaking up Occupy Oakland demonstrations in 2011. Several protesters successfully sued the city of Oakland, California for their injuries; Scott Olsen was severely injured after being hit in the head with a police projectile and was awarded $4.5 million. The city paid $1.17 million to a group of protesters, and $645,000 to Kayvan Sabeghi, who was clubbed by police.[101]

 
A police sniper with a sniper system provides overwatch at the Ferguson protest regarding the shooting of Michael Brown.

On May 28, 2014, a SWAT team looking for drugs in a Cornelia, Georgia home threw a flashbang grenade into the house. The grenade landed in the playpen of a 19-month-old baby boy, and the detonation severely burned and mutilated the baby's face.[102]

In late 2014, concerns about the militarization of police arose after the shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The display of military gear by area police agencies dealing with the protests received significant criticism from the media and politicians. There were concerns over insensitivity, tactics and a militarized response.[103][104][105][106] In recent years, the use of military equipment and tactics for community policing and for public order policing has become more widespread.[107][108] Lawmakers have begun to discuss the topic.[109][110]

Concerns and responses

Community policing

The drift toward militarization concerns police officers and police policy analysts themselves. U.S. community policing grew out of the Peelian Principles of the London Metropolitan Police which emphasizes the relationship between the police and the community they serve. Police academy education patterned after a military boot camp, military-type battle dress uniforms and black color by itself may produce aggression, as do the missions named wars on crime, on drugs, and on terrorism.[111]

In a 2013 piece in the newsletter of the DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), COPS Senior Policy Analyst Karl Bickel warned that police militarization could seriously impair community-oriented policing. Bickel wrote that accelerating militarization was likely to alienate police relationship with the community, and pointed to a variety of factors that contribute to militarization, including the growth of SWAT; the increase prevalence of dark-colored military-style battle dress uniforms for patrol officers (which research suggests has a psychological effect of increasing aggression in the wearer), and "warrior-like" stress training in policing training, which fosters an "us versus them" approach.[112]

Use of force

A report by The Marshall Project looking at data from the early 2010s investigated the mindset of "guardian" versus "warrior" by calculating the rate of complaints for excessive use of force against police officers who had served in the military versus police officers in general. It found higher rates for veterans in Boston (28% vs. 17%) and Miami (14% vs. 11%), but found no difference for Massachusetts State Police.[113]

A national survey in August 2016 by the Pew Research Center found police officers who had served in the military were more likely to have fired their weapon while doing police work (32% vs. 26%).[114]

 
A police SWAT team with automatic weapons, helmets and body armor

Viewpoints

The ACLU has stated that local police use these "wartime weapons in everyday policing, especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war, which has unfairly targeted people of color".[115] Travis Irvine from The Huffington Post referred to how "local police forces now roll tank-like vehicles through our streets".[116] Dave Pruett from The Huffington Post raised concerns about "Military Humvees, still in camouflage and mounted with machine guns, in the hands of municipal police [and] SWAT teams of police in full riot gear, bristling with automatic weapons."[117] Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper published an essay arguing that "the current epidemic of police brutality is a reflection of the militarization ... of our urban police forces, the result of years of the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on terror'".[118] Senator Rand Paul has proposed a demilitarization of U.S. police departments, stating that "The images and scenes we continue to see in Ferguson resemble war more than traditional police action."[119]

Chuck Canterbury, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police, argued that the equipment received from the federal government had been properly de-militarized, and that it was being used to protect civilians from violent crime. He further stated that the use of the equipment by law enforcement was necessary to protect civilians, since mass shootings have taken place across the United States, even in small towns. Responding to claims that law enforcement officers were being given tanks, Canterbury argued that the vehicles being used by law enforcement were not armed, and that they were being used across the United States to protect other officers.[120]

On March 23, 2015, a Department of Justice investigation into use of deadly force by the Philadelphia Police Department in the period from 2007 to 2013 found that the way officers are trained may be a contributing factor to excessive use of deadly force. The report found that a) many officers have the mistaken assumption that being "in fear of their life" is justification for the use of deadly force, but fear should not be a factor - it's a reasonable belief that deadly force is necessary to avoid death or serious injury; b) instruction about policies on the use of force is confusing; c) most training scenarios end in some type of use of force and officers are rarely, if ever, trained how to resolve confrontations peacefully; d) 80% of suspects shot by police were black - black suspects were also more than twice as likely to be shot due to a "threat perception failure"; and e) no consistent procedure was in place for shooting investigations, no audio or video recordings of officer interviews were being made, and officers are often interviewed months after the incidents.[121][122]

In a report[123] released in June 2015, Amnesty International alleged that the United States does not comply with the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials.[124]

Two independent, peer-reviewed studies published in 2020 have found that militarized police officers are neither safer nor more effective at reducing crime.[125]

Intelligence-gathering and surveillance

In a January 2017 report Cato Institute criminal justice policy analyst Adam Bates argues that in the United States, "an increasingly militarized domestic police force" is characterized by "mission creep [that] has not been limited to weapons and tactics. What the War on Drugs has done for police militarization, the War on Terror is now doing for police intelligence gathering, and the privacy of millions of Americans is at risk."[126]

The ACLU has raised concerns about military involvement in surveillance of peaceful protesters. The ACLU pointed, for example, to U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) issuance of Threat and Local Observation Notices (TALON) depicting Veterans for Peace and other anti-war groups as "terrorist threats". The ACLU also raised concerns about military involvement in "fusion centers".[127]

Civil liberties

The federal Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids the U.S. military from conducting domestic law enforcement activities, embodying "the traditional American principle of separating civilian and military authority".[128] There have been exceptions made, however: in 1981, Congress enacted legislation allowing military involvement in drug interdiction at U.S. borders, and eight years later "designated the Department of Defense as the 'single lead agency' in drug interdiction efforts".[128] In the late 1990s, following the Oklahoma City bombing, there were proposals to further limit the act to allow military participation in law enforcement activities in chemical/biological weapon and terrorism cases.[129] These anti-terrorism proposals were criticized by some commentators on the basis that they were a threat to civil liberties.[129] Writers such as U.S. Air Force officer Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. critiqued proposals to use the military for internal security, on the basis that "No one should suffer the illusion that military forces could ever execute the laws with the same sensitivity to civil liberties as regular police forces." Dunlap argued that "the central imperatives of military service" was "destroying targets and undermining enemy command and control"—a skill that does not necessarily carry over into intelligence-gathering and investigation. Under this view, "a successful policization of the armed forces may well render it incapable of defeating authentic external military threats".[130]

The accelerating militarization of regular law enforcement during the War on Drugs and post-September 11 War on Terror, however, prompted some commentators to express alarm at the blurring of the distinction between civil and military functions, and the potential to erode constraints on governmental power in times of perceived crisis.[131] A 2010 paper published in the journal Armed Forces & Society examined "role convergence, that is, evidence that significant segments of police operations in the United States have taken on military characteristics; and evidence indicating that many U.S. military initiatives have taken on policing characteristics".[132] It concluded that "for individual citizens and for society as a whole, at least one aspect of role convergence—the militarization of the police—is potentially troublesome. If this convergence results in the police adopting not only military-type tactics and procedures but also military attitudes and orientations, the convergence may seriously threaten traditional civil rights and liberties."[132]

A 2014 ACLU report, War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing, concluded that "American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized ..." The report cites an increase in unnecessarily aggressive raids, "tactics designed for the battlefield", and equipment such as armored personnel carriers and flashbang grenades—as well as a lack of transparency and oversight.[133] Writers such as Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer have argued that militarization leads to "extreme constitutional violations".[134]

SWAT teams and military-style raid tactics

Peter Kraska, a criminal justice professor at Eastern Kentucky University, found that the prevalence of SWAT teams, among police agencies serving populations of at least 50,000 people, doubled from the mid-1980s to the late-1990s, rising to 89% of police agencies by the end of this time period. Among smaller police agencies (covering areas with between 25,000 and 50,000 people), the proportion with SWAT teams rose from 20% in the mid-198-s to 80% in the mid-2000s. Kraska says: "When people refer to the militarization of police, it's not in a pejorative or judgmental sense. Contemporary police agencies have moved significantly along a continuum culturally, materially, operationally, while using a Navy SEALs model. All of those are clear indications that they're moving away from a civilian model of policing."[135]

A 2014 ACLU report, War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing, concluded that "American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized ..."[133] The report examined 818 uses of SWAT teams by more than 20 law enforcement agencies in 11 U.S. states from the period of July 2010 to October 2013.[136] Military-style tactics used by such teams include nighttime raids, use of battering rams, use of flashbangs, overwhelming displays of force, and the wearing of helmets and masks.[136][137]

The use of SWAT teams became especially common for drug searches. The ACLU study found that 62% of SWAT deployments were for drug raids, and that 79% involved raids on private homes; the study found that only "7% fell into those categories for which the technique was originally intended, such as hostage situations or barricades".[136] In some cases, civilians, including infants, were killed or injured due to police use of force in military style raids.[136] In other cases, residents of affected neighborhoods reported experiencing psychological trauma as a result of militaristic law-enforcement tactics.[138] The use of force and military-style equipment during such raids prompted criticism,[135] particularly from civil libertarians such as Radley Balko, who wrote on the topic in his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces.[139]

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) have been accused of operating a secret "black site" in their Homan Square facility where suspects were held without being booked and registered and where they could not be found by their attorneys or families. Suspects were allegedly shackled and beaten.[140]

Federal efforts to curb militarization

From 1997 to 2016, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has gone to court to challenge policing practices in more than 24 cities in order to protect the civil rights of the public.[141]

The Obama administration made a broad push police reform.[141][142] In 2015, the Task Force for 21st Century Policing recommended restricting federal transfers of military surplus equipment, such as grenade launchers and armored vehicles, from the Defense Department to law enforcement agencies via the 1033 program.[142] President Obama implemented the recommendations by in Executive Order 13688,[143] in what observers saw as a bid to shift police sway from "away from creeping militarization and toward community policing".[142] The Trump administration signaled a dramatic policy shift, with Donald Trump pledging during the campaign to reinstate the entire 1033 program.[142][144] In 2017, the Trump administration announced it will reinstate the program.[145]

Types of teams and weapons

SWAT teams

Main articles: SWAT and FBI SWAT
 
A member of the Wichita Falls SWAT team conducts a rifle drill.

Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams are law enforcement units in the United States that use specialized or military equipment and tactics. First created in the 1960s for riot control or violent confrontations with criminals, the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs, and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. In the United States today, SWAT teams are deployed 50,000-80,000 times every year, 80% of the time in order to serve search warrants, most often for narcotics. SWAT teams are increasingly equipped with military-type hardware and are trained to deploy against threats of terrorism, for crowd control, and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement, sometimes deemed "high-risk". Other countries have developed their own paramilitary police units (PPU)s that are also described as or compared to SWAT police forces. SWAT units are often equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, assault rifles, breaching shotguns, sniper rifles, riot control agents, and stun grenades. They have specialized equipment including heavy body armor, ballistic shields, entry tools, armored vehicles, advanced night vision optics, and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of hostages or hostage takers, inside enclosed structures.

The increased use of SWAT teams is a hallmark of increased police militarization. The Cato Institute's Radley Balko wrote that during the 1970s, there were about 300 SWAT raids a year and as of 2005 there were 40,000 a year. SWAT teams being used for gambling crackdowns and serving a search warrant are routine in some places, like Fairfax, VA.[146]"There has been a more than 1400% increase in the amount of SWAT deployments between 1980 and 2000, according to estimates ... by Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska."[147] Balko states that in 2007, "... a Dallas SWAT team raided a Veterans [organization's] ... charity poker games. In 2010, a team of heavily armed Orange County, Florida, sheriff's deputies raided several barbershops, holding barbers and customers at gunpoint while they turned the shops inside out. Of the 37 people arrested, 34 were taken in for "barbering without a license".[148] The Orlando barbershop raids were subsequently challenged in court, and in 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that it violated "clearly established Fourth Amendment rights" for the government to conduct "a run-of-the-mill administrative inspection as though it is a criminal raid".[149]

The ACLU has stated that "... heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people's homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs", causing people to "needlessly di[e] during these raids", in which neighborhoods are turned into "warzones".[115]

Snipers

Law enforcement snipers, commonly called police snipers, and military snipers differ in many ways, including their areas of operation and tactics. A police sharpshooter is part of a police operation and usually takes part in relatively short missions. Police forces typically deploy such sharpshooters in hostage scenarios. This differs from a military sniper, who operates as part of a larger army, engaged in warfare. Sometimes as part of a SWAT team, police snipers are deployed alongside negotiators and an assault team trained for close quarters combat. As policemen, they are trained to shoot only as a last resort, when there is a direct threat to life; the police sharpshooter has a well-known rule: "Be prepared to take a life to save a life."[150] Police snipers typically operate at much shorter ranges than military snipers, generally under 100 meters (109 yd) and sometimes even less than 50 meters (55 yd). Both types of snipers do make difficult shots under pressure, and often perform one-shot kills.

 
A U.S. Secret Service sniper on the roof of the White House

Police units that are unequipped for tactical operations may rely on a specialized SWAT team, which may have a dedicated sniper. Police snipers placed in vantage points, such as high buildings, can provide security for events.[151] In one high-profile incident, Mike Plumb, a SWAT sniper in Columbus, Ohio, prevented a suicide by shooting a revolver out of the individual's hand, leaving him unharmed.[152]

The need for specialized training for police sharpshooters was made apparent in 1972 during the Munich massacre when the German police could not deploy specialized personnel or equipment during the standoff at the airport in the closing phase of the crisis, and consequently all the Israeli hostages were killed. While the German army did have snipers in 1972, the use of snipers of the German army in the scenario was impossible due to the German constitution's explicit prohibition of the use of the military in domestic matters. This lack of police trained snipers was later addressed with the founding of the specialized police counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, which subsequently became a widely copied model for a police special forces unit.

In September 2015, a San Bernardino Sheriff's Department sniper shot a suspect in a fast-moving car from a helicopter. The suspect leapt from his car and died on the side of the road, but his vehicle continued forward, striking another vehicle and critically injuring three civilians.[153]

Protest policing

 
Rank of Icelandic National Police officers in full riot gear during the 2008 Icelandic lorry driver protests

Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests.[10][11] Riot police are police who are organized, deployed, trained or equipped to confront crowds, protests or riots. Riot police may be regular police who act in the role of riot police in particular situations or they may be separate units organized within or in parallel to regular police forces. Riot police are used in a variety of different situations and for a variety of different purposes. They may be employed to control riots as their name suggests, to disperse or control crowds, to maintain public order or discourage criminality, or to protect people or property. In some cases, riot police may function as a tool of political repression by violently breaking up protests and suppressing dissent or civil disobedience.

 
A riot policeman sprays pepper spray at seated protesters during the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999.

Riot police often use special equipment termed riot gear to help protect themselves and attack protesters or rioters. Riot gear typically includes personal armor, batons, riot shields and riot helmets. Many riot police teams also deploy specialized less-than-lethal weapons, such as pepper spray, tear gas, rifles that fire rubber bullets or plastic bullets, flashbang grenades, and Long Range Acoustic Devices (sound cannons).

The police tactics used during the 2001 Quebec City protest serve as an example of the approaches used by North American riot police. During the protest, riot police fired tear gas canisters, water cannon, and rubber bullets,[154] dispersing large groupings of protesters both violent and peaceful, including teach-ins and teams of medics providing first aid to other protesters. Other tactical interventions aimed at arresting various perceived movement leaders.[155] Allegedly, "plastic bullets were being used increasingly [by riot police], and from guns with laser sights so at night people could often see that the cops were intentionally aiming for heads or groins".[156]

Military weapons

 
A Colt AR-15 Carbine with a Colt 4×20 scope.
 
A Colt M4 Carbine with ACOG scope.
 
An M16A1 assault rifle.
 
The Heckler & Koch MP5, a submachine gun.

Between 2006 and 2014, almost 5,000 M16 rifles were distributed to local and state law enforcement agencies in Ohio under the surplus military equipment program.[157]

Effects

A 2017 study found a statistically significant positive relationship between militarization of the police and fatalities from officer-involved shootings.[158][159]

Two studies in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy concluded that federal grants of military equipment to local police under the 1033 Program led to a reduction in crime. However, these studies were criticized for using inappropriate data. Studies that used better data failed to replicate the findings of those studies.[160][161][162][163]

A 2018 study published in the journal PNAS found that "militarized police units are more often deployed in communities with large shares of African American residents, even after controlling for local crime rates". The study also found that "militarized policing fails to enhance officer safety or reduce local crime".[18]

In popular culture

The 2015 video game Battlefield Hardline depicts a militarized police, and it depicts both police and criminals wielding military-grade equipment, including rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers. The developer's insistence on "fantasy" while meticulously recreating LA areas and loosely basing crimes in the game on real-life crimes has subsequently been criticized.[164][165][166]

The documentary Peace Officer, which is about police militarization in the U.S., won the 2015 Documentary Feature Competition Grand Jury award at the South by Southwest Film Festival.[167][168]

The documentary Do Not Resist by Craig Atkinson is also critical of the phenomenon of police militarization, as exemplified by law enforcement training courses taught by retired military officer Dave Grossman, who tells police officers, "You are men and women of violence." The film won the award for "Best Documentary Feature" at the Tribeca Film Festival.[169][170]

See also

 
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Further reading

  • Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces. Public Affairs, 2021.
  • Balto, Simon. 2019. Occupied Territory: Policing Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Hall, Abigail R. and Christopher Coyne. 2018. Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism. Stanford University Press.
  • Hinton, Elizabeth. 2017. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Harvard University Press.
  • Linstrum, Erik. "Domesticating Chemical Weapons: Tear Gas and the Militarization of Policing in the British Imperial World, 1919–1981", The Journal of Modern History 91, no. 3 (September 2019): 557–585.
  • Madsen, Chris (2020). "Green is the New Black: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Militarisation of Policing in Canada", Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 3(1), 114–131. DOI: Green is the New Black: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Militarisation of Policing in Canada
  • Marat, Erica. 2018. The Politics of Police: Reform Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries. Oxford University Press.
  • Schrader, S. (2017). "More than Cosmetic Changes: The Challenges of Experiments with Police Demilitarization in the 1960s and 1970s." Journal of Urban History.
  • Schrader, Stuart. 2019. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. University of California Press.
  • Steidley, Trent; Ramey, David M. 2019. "Police militarization in the United States". Sociology Compass. 13 (4)
  • Turner II, Frederick W. and Bryanna Fox. 2018. Police Militarization: Policy Changes and Stakeholders' Opinions in the United States. Springer
  • Wood, Lesley J. Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing. Pluto Press, 2014. ISBN 9780745333885

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The militarization of police paramilitarization of police in some media is the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers 1 This includes the use of armored personnel carriers APCs assault rifles submachine guns flashbang grenades 2 sniper rifles and SWAT special weapons and tactics teams 3 4 The militarization of law enforcement is also associated with intelligence agency style information gathering aimed at the public and political activists 5 6 and with a more aggressive style of law enforcement 7 8 Criminal justice professor Peter Kraska has defined militarization of police as the process whereby civilian police increasingly draw from and pattern themselves around the tenets of militarism and the military model 9 Special Weapons and Tactics SWAT team members some armed with assault rifles preparing for an exerciseA large group of Los Angeles Police Department LAPD SWAT officers in tactical gear at a Lakers parade in 2009Observers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests 10 11 Since the 1970s riot police have fired at protesters using guns with rubber bullets or plastic bullets 12 Tear gas which was developed by the United States Army for riot control in 1919 is still widely used against protesters The use of tear gas in warfare is prohibited by various international treaties 13 that most states have signed however its law enforcement or military use for domestic or non combat situations is permitted Concerns about the militarization of police have been raised by both ends of the political spectrum in the United States with both the libertarian Cato Institute 14 and the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU 15 voicing criticisms of the practice The Fraternal Order of Police has spoken out in favor of equipping law enforcement officers with military equipment claiming that it increases the officers safety and enables them to protect members of the public and other first responders e g firefighters and emergency medical services personnel 16 However a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public regardless of local crime rates 17 A 2018 study found that militarized police units in the United States were more frequently deployed to communities with large shares of African Americans even after controlling for local crime rates 18 Many countries also have at least one gendarmerie which is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population France classifies some weapons as intermediary force weapons such as its LBD 40 refitted version of the Swiss B amp T GL06 military grenade launcher which is used in riot police situations or against individual persons in more specific interventions While not having the full power of military guns some weapons are heavier than regular police weaponry and are still lethal These are often referred to with the limited lethality appellation Contents 1 Brazil 2 Canada 3 Colombia 4 France 5 Germany 6 Indonesia 7 Mexico 8 United Kingdom 9 United States 9 1 20th century 9 2 21st century 9 3 Allegations of a war on police 9 4 Notable incidents 9 4 1 MOVE bombing 9 4 2 Ruby Ridge 9 4 3 Waco 9 4 4 Other events 9 4 4 1 2005 2009 9 4 4 2 2010 2014 9 5 Concerns and responses 9 5 1 Community policing 9 5 2 Use of force 9 5 3 Viewpoints 9 5 4 Intelligence gathering and surveillance 9 5 5 Civil liberties 9 5 6 SWAT teams and military style raid tactics 9 5 7 Federal efforts to curb militarization 10 Types of teams and weapons 10 1 SWAT teams 10 2 Snipers 10 3 Protest policing 10 4 Military weapons 11 Effects 12 In popular culture 13 See also 14 Further reading 15 References 16 External linksBrazil Edit A Brazilian Federal Highway Police tactical team in the 2022 Independence Day parade In 2013 Brazil saw countrywide demonstrations protesting a lack of basic services while the country was spending billions on the World Cup and the Olympics The unprepared and overreacting police forces responded in a way that shocked the largely middle class protesters The police using non lethal weapons like pepper spray and rubber bullets while dressed from head to toe in ninja like full battle gear indiscriminately arrested both violent black bloc demonstrators known for their confrontational tactics and anarchist views along with non violent protestors marching peacefully As a result calls for de militarization of the police from social movements non governmental organizations and even segments of the police itself became widespread and remain one of the legacies of the World Cup The Brazilian Military Police today while not officially a wing of the Armed Forces remains an institution with a strict military hierarchy training that retains a military ideology and practices that frequently resemble occupying forces conquering enemy territories 19 The units that responded to the protests were Shock Police units specialized in riot control The Military Police is an ancillary and reserve force of the Army under the General Inspectorate of Military Police being that a part of Land Operations Command But in time of peace the state governor act as commander in chief of the Police and Firefighting Corps according to the Constitution of Brazil article 144 6th paragraph where it is said that the Military Police and Firefighter Corps ancillary and reserve forces of the Army subordinate themselves with the Civil Police to the state and Federal District governors 20 The Brazilian Federal Highway Police PRF was also criticized for the creation of tactical teams during the Bolsonaro administration during a process that was seen by some as a politically charged militarization of the force 21 During this period PRF tactical teams gained notoriety after taking part in two high profile operations The first one which sought to apprehend criminals responsible for planning a series of high profile bank robberies across the country known as the Novo Cangaco New Cangaco left 26 suspects dead after a raid in Varginha in October 2021 The second one a joint incursion with BOPE in the Vila Cruzeiro favela of Rio de Janeiro left 23 dead including one civilian 21 Minister of Justice Flavio Dino of the Lula administration that followed sought to reestructure the organization mentioning the 2022 election controversy and claiming that it had deviated from its main role 22 requiring a depoliticization 21 23 Canada Edit A Barrie Police officer in full riot gear at the 2010 G20 Toronto summit protestsCanadian legal expert Michael Spratt wrote there s no question that Canadian police sometimes look more like post apocalyptic military mercenaries than protectors of the peace Our police services have been acquiring more and more military toys a dangerous trend that s gotten little in the way of critical analysis in the mainstream media 24 Growing numbers of Canadian police agencies have acquired armored vehicles in recent years 25 In 2010 the Ottawa Police Service bought a Lenco G3 BearCat APC for 340 000 which has half inch thick military steel armoured bodywork 50 caliber rated ballistic glass blast resistant floors custom designed gun ports and a roof turret 26 The G20 protests in Toronto in 2010 showed that the militarization of protest policing is not only occurring in the United States Police in Toronto used a sound cannon or Long Range Acoustic Device LRAD a weapon that was developed for use in conflicts in the Middle East as well as barricades pre emptive arrests and riot units 27 According to Kevin Walby an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg the more interesting aspect of the militarization of the police is actually on the strategy side police are increasingly training with military style tacticians especially when it comes to situations like crowd control and increasingly surveillance 28 On June 3 2015 it was reported that RCMP officers have started openly carrying MP5 submachine guns on Parliament Hill as part of a visible increase to Parliament Hill security following last October s terrorist attack in 2014 29 Conservative senator Vern White a former RCMP officer and a former Ottawa police chief says some RCMP officers guarding Parliament Hill against potential terrorist attacks should be armed with rifles similar to those carried by Canadian troops in Afghanistan the more powerful Colt C8 which is popular with police tactical teams and Canadian and other NATO alliance troops White argues that the C8 carbines would give officers a much longer shooting range than the short barreled MP5 submachine guns The RCMP is issuing more than 2 200 C8 carbines to its officers but the RCMP has not indicated whether the C8s will be issued to Parliament Hill officers 30 The use of surplus armored vehicles for use by the RCMP and other police forces throughout the country are challenged by lawyers and academics since they can easily send the wrong message to the public 31 According to Michael Spratt an Ottawa based criminal lawyer the funds used to acquire the vehicles is better used for crime prevention activities 32 Colombia Edit A Survivor R in blue silver varnish for the German NRW Police as displayed at Eurosatory 2016 Since 1999 an eight billion dollar programme in Colombia has seen the mass deployment of military troops and militarized police forces to both interdict illegal drugs and counter left wing guerrilla groups This assistance promote s militarization to address organized crime 33 Due to these U S policies civilian forces have increasingly received military training leading to concerns over human rights violations and excessive use of force as well as a lack of knowledge over how to deal with local protests concerns startlingly similar to those now coming out of Ferguson Missouri 33 France EditFrench police since the Charlie Hebdo shootings started to issue heavier guns to police instead of the standard Sig Sauer SP 2022 pistol issued per default Before this heavier guns were only given to elite units but some units are now getting heavier weaponry such as the anti criminality brigades which was given H amp K G36 assault rifles 34 18 of the 19 shootings with this weapon were accidental discharges the first year when this weapon was issued to anti criminality policemen 34 Companies Republicaines de Securite which are an anti riot unit are issued grenades which are classified as war weaponry in France If gas weapons are forbidden for military use by the Geneva convention which is signed by France but no restriction applies to civilian use 35 Basing himself on the model of the Gendarmerie France s Interior s Minister Gerald Darmanin said he wished to extend the police reserve of 30 000 reservists against the 5000 men reserve to recreate links with police forces This comes during the protests against the Loi Securite Globale 36 37 38 Germany EditIn 2016 the German police introduced a new special unit BFE which is designed to counter terror attacks 39 Criminologist Rafael Behr says the new BFE de mainly serves as a psychological reassurance for the public serving as a symbolic effort and a functional effort 39 The functional aspect is that with the BFE the government can use armed forces with military weapons inside Germany an act that is currently banned by the German constitution 39 The 250 person BFE will be added to the existing GSG 9 unit Behr states that the BFE will be able to launch large scale manhunts using an end of the policing spectrum which borders on war like or military action 39 Indonesia Edit Brimob troops of the Indonesian National PoliceThe Mobile Brigade Corps Brimob is an Indonesian militarized police force Paramilitary which are often deployed for Riot control SWAT operations anti terror domestic guerrilla warfare domestic civil hostage rescue search and rescue and armed conflict management especially in areas with domestic conflict such as in Papua and Poso 40 It usually conducts joint operations with the TNI Mexico EditMexico s new national police force the Gendarmeria is partially staffed with active duty soldiers part of a longstanding trend towards militarization of the country s Federal Police 41 According to a 2020 study the use of torture by police has persisted in Mexico even though Mexico transitioned to democracy Torture is still used due to weak procedural protections and the militarization of policing which introduces strategies equipment and mentality that treats criminal suspects as though they were enemies in wartime 42 United Kingdom EditThe Royal Irish Constabulary RIC was the police force in Ireland from 1822 until 1922 when the country was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland This was a time of agrarian unrest and Irish nationalist republican agitation The RIC was a quasi military police force constables were armed with rifles billeted in barracks and the force had a militaristic structure and uniform 43 During the Irish War of Independence it was tasked with tackling the Irish Republican Army IRA and worked alongside the British Army An Auxiliary Division and Ulster Special Constabulary were formed to carry out counter guerrilla operations The RIC became the Royal Ulster Constabulary RUC in Northern Ireland which remained part of the UK It remained a militarized police force due to the threat of IRA attacks During the Northern Ireland conflict 1960s 1990s the RUC routinely carried submachine guns and assault rifles traveled in armored Land Rovers were based in heavily fortified police stations 44 and worked alongside the British Army sometimes mounting joint patrols and sharing the same bases The RUC was the first police force to use rubber and plastic bullets for riot control The political and militarised 45 RUC was succeeded by the Police Service of Northern Ireland which continues to keep some counter terrorism powers Since the 2000s its public order policing methods have been adopted by other police forces in the UK 46 United States EditProfessional police departments have changed over time in the United States The first professionalized police departments in the United States were modeled on the London Metropolitan Police citation needed They were under civilian control and were nonmilitaristic in the sense that they eschewed military uniforms weaponry and training According to Julian Go of Boston University police departments in the United States became increasingly militarized in the early 20th century as they borrowed tactics techniques and organizational templates from America s imperial military regime that had been developed to conquer and rule foreign populations 47 Historian Stuart Schrader has linked the experiences of World War II to later militarization of police in the United States 48 20th century Edit The Anti Bandit Gun a 1920s advertisement of the Thompson M1921 for United States law enforcement forcesDuring the early 20th century police departments in the United States adopted several military innovations such as centralized chains of command professionalization training and discipline military operations and tactics in particular colonial counterinsurgency tactics open order units and counterinsurgency information gathering techniques 47 Many of these reforms were influenced by practices from the Philippine American War and subsequent U S occupation of the Philippines 47 An influential advocate for these police reforms was August Vollmer who has been described as the father of modern policing 47 Vollmer devised syllabi which were used in police training courses 47 The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI as well as police departments in cities such as Kansas City Missouri 49 and Kenosha Wisconsin 50 began deploying automatic weapons including the Thompson submachine gun and armored cars in the 1920s and 1930s An FBI officer firing a Colt Monitor in 1936George Fletcher Chandler a veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition and the first Superintendent of the New York State Police was an early advocate of law enforcement officers wearing their weapons exposed on the outside of their uniforms 51 Police militarization was escalated in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s as an era in which race riots and anti war protests were common in many U S cities Some believe the seeming success of officers armed with military style weapons and deployed to curtail the 1965 Watts riots a six day race riot sparked by conflicts with the Los Angeles Police Department LAPD that killed 34 people gave way to the trend of arming and equipping law enforcement officers with battlefield weapons 52 Joy Rohde a professor at the University of Michigan s Ford School of Public Policy has published research indicating that militarization is a mindset a tendency to see the world through the lens of national security a tendency to exaggerate existing threats Rohde traces the origins of modern militarized policing to the Cold War era anti communist paranoia and the idea that domestic civil rights activists were similar to foreign enemies as manifested in activities such as the CIA s Operation CHAOS 53 According to Harvard University professor Elizabeth Hinton the 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act ushered in a new era where the federal government facilitated the militarization of police at the state and local level across the United States 54 Over the last hundred years with the rise of acts of terrorism and the availability of high powered weapons special weapons and tactics teams have been implemented and are being utilized across the United States 55 The 1960s to the 1990s encounters with the sophisticated weapons of narcotics trafficking groups such as the Medellin Cartel and street gangs such as the Gangster Disciples with organized left wing protesters at such events as the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the 1999 WTO Conference in Seattle 56 with urban riots such as the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles the 1967 Detroit riot and the 1992 Los Angeles riots led law enforcement to reconsider their standard side arms Law enforcement agencies encountered groups such as Earth Liberation Front ELF 57 58 and incidents such as the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald s massacre the 1986 FBI Miami shootout between eight FBI agents and two serial bank robbers in which the agents were out gunned by the robbers and the 1997 North Hollywood shootout Researchers David N Falcone Edward L Wells and Ralph A Weisheit describe a historical separation of police models between small towns and larger cities which tended to function differently with separate hierarchical systems supporting each 59 The militarization of both rural and urban law enforcement has been attributed to the United States involvement in wars during the 20th century and to increasingly frequent encounters with violent protesters and criminals with automatic weapons explosives and body armor although some attribute the militarization to the more recent campaigns known as the War on Drugs and the War on Terror 60 61 Historian Charles A Beard argues that cultural change during the Great Depression encouraged the militarization of law enforcement 62 whereas Harwood argues that the creation of SWAT teams and tactical units within law enforcement during the 1960s began the trend Homeland Security armored vehicleThe 1981 Military Cooperation with Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies Act allows the U S military to cooperate with domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies Operations in support of law enforcement include assistance in counter drug operations assistance for civil disturbances special security operations counter terrorism explosive ordnance disposal EOD and similar activities Constitutional and statutory restrictions and corresponding directives and regulations limit the type of support provided in this area This allows the U S military to give law enforcement agencies access to its military bases and its military equipment 63 The legislation was promoted during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the context of the War on drugs and is considered a part of a general trend towards the militarization of police 63 The Act is cited in the 1992 essay The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 as having set a precedent that the author a United States Air Force officer considered dangerous The 1997 North Hollywood shootout had a profound effect on law enforcement agencies Local patrol officers at the time were typically armed with their standard issue 9 19mm pistols or 38 Special revolvers while some had a pump action 12 gauge shotgun available in their cars The North Hollywood bank robbers carried fully automatic AK 47 style weapons with high capacity drum magazines and ammunition capable of penetrating vehicles and police Kevlar vests With these weapons two bank robbers fired approximately 1 100 rounds at officers and civilians before being killed The robbers wore body armor which successfully protected them from bullets and shotgun pellets fired by the responding patrolmen Police noted that the service pistols carried by the first responding officers had insufficient range and relatively poor accuracy although a SWAT team eventually arrived with sufficient firepower citation needed The ineffectiveness of the standard police patrol pistols and shotguns in penetrating the robbers body armor led to a trend in the United States toward arming selected police officers not just SWAT teams with heavier firepower such as semi automatic 5 56 45mm NATO AR 15 type rifles citation needed SWAT teams whose close quarters battle weaponry usually consisted of submachine guns that fired pistol cartridges such as the 9x19mm Heckler amp Koch MP5 began supplementing them with AR 15 type rifles and carbines citation needed Seven months after the incident the Department of Defense gave 600 surplus M16s to the LAPD which were issued to each patrol sergeant 64 65 LAPD patrol vehicles now carry AR 15s as standard issue with bullet resistant Kevlar plating in their doors as well 66 full citation needed As a result of this incident the LAPD authorized its officers to carry 45 ACP caliber semiautomatic pistols as duty sidearms specifically the Smith amp Wesson Models 4506 and 4566 Prior to 1997 only LAPD SWAT officers were authorized to carry 45 ACP caliber pistols specifically the Model 1911A1 45 ACP semiautomatic pistol 67 A U S police officer armed with a holographic sight equipped M4 carbine rifle during a training exerciseThe militarization of police escalated with the 1033 Program initiated by President George H W Bush in 1990 ostensibly to address organized drug trafficking 68 69 The 1033 Program was documented in action through published and televised images of excessive force and armoured vehicles broadcast during the 2014 protests in Ferguson after Michael Brown was killed by police The National Defense Authorization Act as part of the U S Government s Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services DLA currently coordinates the transfer of excess military equipment to law enforcement agencies 70 As of 2014 update 8 000 local law enforcement agencies participate in the militarization program that has transferred 5 1 billion in military hardware from the United States Department of Defense to local American law enforcement agencies since 1997 citation needed Data from 2006 to 2014 shows that local and state police departments obtained aircraft helicopters bayonets knives night vision sniper scopes tactical armored vehicles or MRAP s rifles and weapons including grenade launchers watercraft and camouflage gear among other military equipment 71 21st century Edit Under the Fourth Amendment law enforcement officers must receive written permission from a court of law or otherwise qualified magistrate to lawfully search and seize evidence while investigating criminal activity The requirements changed after the September 11 attacks with the 2001 Patriot Act which gave law enforcement officers permission to search a home or business without the owner s or the occupant s consent or knowledge amongst other provisions if terrorist activities were suspected The Act was criticized for its violation of civil liberties and has generated a great deal of controversy since its enactment In United States v Antoine Jones the court found that increased monitoring of suspects caused by the Patriot Act directly put the suspects constitutional rights in jeopardy For a time the Patriot Act allowed for agents to undertake sneak and peek citation needed searches a term used to describe breaking into a business or residence and entering without judicial oversight Critics such as the ACLU strongly criticized the law for violating the Fourth Amendment 72 73 On May 18 2015 President Barack Obama announced limits on the types of military equipment which can be transferred to police departments through the 1033 Program and limits on the implementation of military training programs Afterward the military was restricted from transferring some weapons such as grenade launchers weaponized vehicles and bayonets to police 74 Obama said We ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like it s an occupying force as opposed to a force that s part of the community that s protecting them and serving them So we re going to prohibit equipment made for the battlefield that is not appropriate for local police departments 75 In response to Obama s announcement the United States largest police union the Fraternal Order of Police reacted negatively pledging to push back against the new restrictions and accusing the administration of politicizing officers safety 75 The executive director of the FOP James Pasco stated that his group would be at their most aggressive in asserting the need for officer safety and officer rights in any police changes that are to be effected and objected to a requirement that police departments obtain permission from city governments to acquire certain equipment including riot batons helmets and shields through federal programs 75 Pasco stated We need to only look back to Baltimore the location of the 2015 protests following the death of Freddie Gray to see what happens when officers are sent out ill equipped in a disturbance situation Because you don t like the optics of militarization you can t send police officers out to be hurt or killed 75 In July 2016 the Obama administration announced that it would revisit the 2015 ban on some types of military equipment for police forces and begin a process of case by case review 76 On August 28 2017 U S Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the lifting of restrictions on the transfer of military equipment to law enforcement agencies 77 Sessions said during his announcement that the Trump administration would not put superficial concerns above public safety 78 ACLU spokesperson Kaya Bennett responded to Sessions and said We have an epidemic in the United States of police using excessive force particularly against people of color with injuries and deaths mounting and It defies logic to arm the police with weapons of war grenade launchers high caliber assault weapons and more but that s precisely what President Trump and Attorney General Sessions have decided to do 79 Since the 1033 Program was initiated in 1990 more than 5 4 billion U S dollars of military equipment has been transferred by the Pentagon to local and state police 79 Louisiana State University conducted a study that suggests the militarization of local law enforcement has not lead to reduced crime levels Particularly the study cites evidence that the purchase of surplus military equipment does not increase the effect of policing locally 80 Allegations of a war on police Edit In 2015 journalist Radley Balko wrote an opinion column in which he described statements by politicians Donald Trump Ted Cruz Scott Walker and Dan Patrick that a war on police was taking place as fact free fear mongering and a dangerous game 81 The statements had been made following prominent news reports of deaths by police officers Balko wrote 2015 is on pace to see 35 felonious killings of police officers If that pace holds this year would end with the second lowest number of murdered cops in decades and not only are fewer people killing police officers fewer people are trying to harm them 81 Notable incidents Edit MOVE bombing Edit Main article 1985 MOVE bombing On Monday May 13 1985 Philadelphia police attempted to clear a building occupied by MOVE black liberation activists and execute arrest warrants 82 This led to an armed standoff with police 83 who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building The police said that MOVE members fired at them a gunfight with semi automatic and automatic firearms ensued Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed 84 From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter Philadelphia Police Lt Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one pound bombs which the police referred to as entry devices made of FBI supplied water gel explosive a dynamite substitute targeting a fortified bunker like cubicle on the roof of the house 85 The resulting explosions ignited a fire which spread and eventually destroyed approximately 65 nearby houses 86 Eleven people John Africa five other adults and five children aged 7 to 13 died in the resulting fire and more than 250 people in the neighborhood were left homeless 87 Ramona Africa one of the two survivors said police fired at those trying to escape 88 Ruby Ridge Edit In 1992 there was a deadly confrontation and a 12 day siege at Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho between Randy Weaver his family and his friend Kevin Harris and agents of the United States Marshals Service USMS and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI USMS and FBI agents were armed with M16s and sniper rifles and they used an APC It resulted in the deaths of two Weavers Randy s son Sammy and his wife Vicki and Deputy U S Marshal William Francis Degan At the subsequent federal criminal trial of Weaver and Harris Weaver s attorney Gerry Spence made accusations of criminal wrongdoing against every agency involved in the incident the FBI USMS the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives BATFE and the United States Attorney s Office USAO for Idaho At the completion of the trial the Department of Justice s Office of Professional Responsibility formed a Ruby Ridge Task Force to investigate Spence s charges The 1994 Task Force report was released in redacted form by Lexis Counsel Connect and raised questions about the conduct and policy of all the agencies Public outcry over Ruby Ridge led to the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism Technology and Government Information holding 14 days of hearings and issuing a report calling for reforms in federal law enforcement to prevent a repeat of Ruby Ridge and to restore public confidence in federal law enforcement Waco Edit The Mount Carmel Center engulfed in flames Waco Texas April 19 1993 In 1993 FBI and BATFE agents used armored vehicles tanks and attack helicopters during the siege of the Branch Davidian community in Waco Texas 89 The FBI s arms included 50 caliber 12 7 mm rifles and M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles which are based on an M60A1 Patton main battle tank chassis 90 The FBI also launched 40 millimetre 1 6 in CS grenade fire from M79 grenade launchers and fired two military M651 rounds at the Branch Davidian site 40mm munitions recovered by the Texas Ranger Division at Waco included dozens of plastic Ferret Model SGA 400 Liquid CS rounds two metal M651 military pyrotechnic tear gas rounds two metal NICO Pyrotechnik Sound amp Flash grenades and parachute illumination flares 91 Other events Edit 2005 2009 Edit Riot police at the 2009 G20 meeting in PittsburghIn 2005 the Maryland State Police MSP began entering the names and personal information of death penalty opponents and anti war protesters into a database used to track terrorists 92 In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005 employees of the private security firm Blackwater patrolled the city with automatic weapons When asked what authority they were operating under journalist Jeremy Scahill reported one guy said We re on contract with the Department of Homeland Security 93 relevant On August 25 2008 the Denver Police Department DPD were accused of making mass indiscriminate arrests of almost 100 protesters at the Democratic National Convention In 2011 the city of Denver Colorado agreed to pay a 200 000 settlement and to improve its crowd control training and policies 94 2010 2014 Edit In February 2010 the Minneapolis Police Department MPD raided the apartment of Rickia Russell breaching the door and throwing in a flashbang grenade as part of a search for drugs At the time Russell was eating dinner with her boyfriend and the exploding grenade gave her burns to her head and calves No drugs were found in Russell s apartment and the Minneapolis City Council agreed to pay 1 million in damages 95 In January 2011 Rogelio Serrato in Greenfield California died of smoke inhalation after a flashbang grenade launched by the SWAT team of the Greenfield Police Department GPD ignited a fire in his home 95 In May 2011 the Pima County Sheriff s department killed Marine and Iraq war veteran Jose Guerena when they entered his home while serving a search warrant related to a marijuana smuggling investigation They fired 71 shots into his home while his wife and 4 year old child were inside and found no drugs nor anything illegal The departments involved paid a 3 4 million settlement 96 97 98 99 Referring to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City Glen Greenwald wrote The police response was so excessive and so clearly modeled after battlefield tactics that there was no doubt that deterring domestic dissent is one of the primary aims of police militarization 100 The Oakland Police Department OPD used excessive force while breaking up Occupy Oakland demonstrations in 2011 Several protesters successfully sued the city of Oakland California for their injuries Scott Olsen was severely injured after being hit in the head with a police projectile and was awarded 4 5 million The city paid 1 17 million to a group of protesters and 645 000 to Kayvan Sabeghi who was clubbed by police 101 A police sniper with a sniper system provides overwatch at the Ferguson protest regarding the shooting of Michael Brown On May 28 2014 a SWAT team looking for drugs in a Cornelia Georgia home threw a flashbang grenade into the house The grenade landed in the playpen of a 19 month old baby boy and the detonation severely burned and mutilated the baby s face 102 In late 2014 concerns about the militarization of police arose after the shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9 2014 in Ferguson Missouri a suburb of St Louis The display of military gear by area police agencies dealing with the protests received significant criticism from the media and politicians There were concerns over insensitivity tactics and a militarized response 103 104 105 106 In recent years the use of military equipment and tactics for community policing and for public order policing has become more widespread 107 108 Lawmakers have begun to discuss the topic 109 110 Concerns and responses Edit Community policing Edit The drift toward militarization concerns police officers and police policy analysts themselves U S community policing grew out of the Peelian Principles of the London Metropolitan Police which emphasizes the relationship between the police and the community they serve Police academy education patterned after a military boot camp military type battle dress uniforms and black color by itself may produce aggression as do the missions named wars on crime on drugs and on terrorism 111 In a 2013 piece in the newsletter of the DOJ s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services COPS COPS Senior Policy Analyst Karl Bickel warned that police militarization could seriously impair community oriented policing Bickel wrote that accelerating militarization was likely to alienate police relationship with the community and pointed to a variety of factors that contribute to militarization including the growth of SWAT the increase prevalence of dark colored military style battle dress uniforms for patrol officers which research suggests has a psychological effect of increasing aggression in the wearer and warrior like stress training in policing training which fosters an us versus them approach 112 Use of force Edit A report by The Marshall Project looking at data from the early 2010s investigated the mindset of guardian versus warrior by calculating the rate of complaints for excessive use of force against police officers who had served in the military versus police officers in general It found higher rates for veterans in Boston 28 vs 17 and Miami 14 vs 11 but found no difference for Massachusetts State Police 113 A national survey in August 2016 by the Pew Research Center found police officers who had served in the military were more likely to have fired their weapon while doing police work 32 vs 26 114 A police SWAT team with automatic weapons helmets and body armorViewpoints Edit The ACLU has stated that local police use these wartime weapons in everyday policing especially to fight the wasteful and failed drug war which has unfairly targeted people of color 115 Travis Irvine from The Huffington Post referred to how local police forces now roll tank like vehicles through our streets 116 Dave Pruett from The Huffington Post raised concerns about Military Humvees still in camouflage and mounted with machine guns in the hands of municipal police and SWAT teams of police in full riot gear bristling with automatic weapons 117 Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper published an essay arguing that the current epidemic of police brutality is a reflection of the militarization of our urban police forces the result of years of the war on drugs and the war on terror 118 Senator Rand Paul has proposed a demilitarization of U S police departments stating that The images and scenes we continue to see in Ferguson resemble war more than traditional police action 119 Chuck Canterbury the president of the Fraternal Order of Police argued that the equipment received from the federal government had been properly de militarized and that it was being used to protect civilians from violent crime He further stated that the use of the equipment by law enforcement was necessary to protect civilians since mass shootings have taken place across the United States even in small towns Responding to claims that law enforcement officers were being given tanks Canterbury argued that the vehicles being used by law enforcement were not armed and that they were being used across the United States to protect other officers 120 On March 23 2015 a Department of Justice investigation into use of deadly force by the Philadelphia Police Department in the period from 2007 to 2013 found that the way officers are trained may be a contributing factor to excessive use of deadly force The report found that a many officers have the mistaken assumption that being in fear of their life is justification for the use of deadly force but fear should not be a factor it s a reasonable belief that deadly force is necessary to avoid death or serious injury b instruction about policies on the use of force is confusing c most training scenarios end in some type of use of force and officers are rarely if ever trained how to resolve confrontations peacefully d 80 of suspects shot by police were black black suspects were also more than twice as likely to be shot due to a threat perception failure and e no consistent procedure was in place for shooting investigations no audio or video recordings of officer interviews were being made and officers are often interviewed months after the incidents 121 122 In a report 123 released in June 2015 Amnesty International alleged that the United States does not comply with the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials 124 Two independent peer reviewed studies published in 2020 have found that militarized police officers are neither safer nor more effective at reducing crime 125 Intelligence gathering and surveillance Edit In a January 2017 report Cato Institute criminal justice policy analyst Adam Bates argues that in the United States an increasingly militarized domestic police force is characterized by mission creep that has not been limited to weapons and tactics What the War on Drugs has done for police militarization the War on Terror is now doing for police intelligence gathering and the privacy of millions of Americans is at risk 126 The ACLU has raised concerns about military involvement in surveillance of peaceful protesters The ACLU pointed for example to U S Department of Defense DOD issuance of Threat and Local Observation Notices TALON depicting Veterans for Peace and other anti war groups as terrorist threats The ACLU also raised concerns about military involvement in fusion centers 127 Civil liberties Edit The federal Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 forbids the U S military from conducting domestic law enforcement activities embodying the traditional American principle of separating civilian and military authority 128 There have been exceptions made however in 1981 Congress enacted legislation allowing military involvement in drug interdiction at U S borders and eight years later designated the Department of Defense as the single lead agency in drug interdiction efforts 128 In the late 1990s following the Oklahoma City bombing there were proposals to further limit the act to allow military participation in law enforcement activities in chemical biological weapon and terrorism cases 129 These anti terrorism proposals were criticized by some commentators on the basis that they were a threat to civil liberties 129 Writers such as U S Air Force officer Charles J Dunlap Jr critiqued proposals to use the military for internal security on the basis that No one should suffer the illusion that military forces could ever execute the laws with the same sensitivity to civil liberties as regular police forces Dunlap argued that the central imperatives of military service was destroying targets and undermining enemy command and control a skill that does not necessarily carry over into intelligence gathering and investigation Under this view a successful policization of the armed forces may well render it incapable of defeating authentic external military threats 130 The accelerating militarization of regular law enforcement during the War on Drugs and post September 11 War on Terror however prompted some commentators to express alarm at the blurring of the distinction between civil and military functions and the potential to erode constraints on governmental power in times of perceived crisis 131 A 2010 paper published in the journal Armed Forces amp Society examined role convergence that is evidence that significant segments of police operations in the United States have taken on military characteristics and evidence indicating that many U S military initiatives have taken on policing characteristics 132 It concluded that for individual citizens and for society as a whole at least one aspect of role convergence the militarization of the police is potentially troublesome If this convergence results in the police adopting not only military type tactics and procedures but also military attitudes and orientations the convergence may seriously threaten traditional civil rights and liberties 132 A 2014 ACLU report War Comes Home The Excessive Militarization of American Policing concluded that American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized The report cites an increase in unnecessarily aggressive raids tactics designed for the battlefield and equipment such as armored personnel carriers and flashbang grenades as well as a lack of transparency and oversight 133 Writers such as Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer have argued that militarization leads to extreme constitutional violations 134 SWAT teams and military style raid tactics Edit Peter Kraska a criminal justice professor at Eastern Kentucky University found that the prevalence of SWAT teams among police agencies serving populations of at least 50 000 people doubled from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s rising to 89 of police agencies by the end of this time period Among smaller police agencies covering areas with between 25 000 and 50 000 people the proportion with SWAT teams rose from 20 in the mid 198 s to 80 in the mid 2000s Kraska says When people refer to the militarization of police it s not in a pejorative or judgmental sense Contemporary police agencies have moved significantly along a continuum culturally materially operationally while using a Navy SEALs model All of those are clear indications that they re moving away from a civilian model of policing 135 A 2014 ACLU report War Comes Home The Excessive Militarization of American Policing concluded that American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized 133 The report examined 818 uses of SWAT teams by more than 20 law enforcement agencies in 11 U S states from the period of July 2010 to October 2013 136 Military style tactics used by such teams include nighttime raids use of battering rams use of flashbangs overwhelming displays of force and the wearing of helmets and masks 136 137 The use of SWAT teams became especially common for drug searches The ACLU study found that 62 of SWAT deployments were for drug raids and that 79 involved raids on private homes the study found that only 7 fell into those categories for which the technique was originally intended such as hostage situations or barricades 136 In some cases civilians including infants were killed or injured due to police use of force in military style raids 136 In other cases residents of affected neighborhoods reported experiencing psychological trauma as a result of militaristic law enforcement tactics 138 The use of force and military style equipment during such raids prompted criticism 135 particularly from civil libertarians such as Radley Balko who wrote on the topic in his book Rise of the Warrior Cop The Militarization of America s Police Forces 139 The Chicago Police Department CPD have been accused of operating a secret black site in their Homan Square facility where suspects were held without being booked and registered and where they could not be found by their attorneys or families Suspects were allegedly shackled and beaten 140 Federal efforts to curb militarization Edit From 1997 to 2016 the United States Department of Justice DOJ has gone to court to challenge policing practices in more than 24 cities in order to protect the civil rights of the public 141 The Obama administration made a broad push police reform 141 142 In 2015 the Task Force for 21st Century Policing recommended restricting federal transfers of military surplus equipment such as grenade launchers and armored vehicles from the Defense Department to law enforcement agencies via the 1033 program 142 President Obama implemented the recommendations by in Executive Order 13688 143 in what observers saw as a bid to shift police sway from away from creeping militarization and toward community policing 142 The Trump administration signaled a dramatic policy shift with Donald Trump pledging during the campaign to reinstate the entire 1033 program 142 144 In 2017 the Trump administration announced it will reinstate the program 145 Types of teams and weapons EditSWAT teams Edit Main articles SWAT and FBI SWAT A member of the Wichita Falls SWAT team conducts a rifle drill Special Weapons and Tactics SWAT teams are law enforcement units in the United States that use specialized or military equipment and tactics First created in the 1960s for riot control or violent confrontations with criminals the number and usage of SWAT teams increased in the 1980s and 1990s during the War on Drugs and in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks In the United States today SWAT teams are deployed 50 000 80 000 times every year 80 of the time in order to serve search warrants most often for narcotics SWAT teams are increasingly equipped with military type hardware and are trained to deploy against threats of terrorism for crowd control and in situations beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement sometimes deemed high risk Other countries have developed their own paramilitary police units PPU s that are also described as or compared to SWAT police forces SWAT units are often equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns assault rifles breaching shotguns sniper rifles riot control agents and stun grenades They have specialized equipment including heavy body armor ballistic shields entry tools armored vehicles advanced night vision optics and motion detectors for covertly determining the positions of hostages or hostage takers inside enclosed structures The increased use of SWAT teams is a hallmark of increased police militarization The Cato Institute s Radley Balko wrote that during the 1970s there were about 300 SWAT raids a year and as of 2005 there were 40 000 a year SWAT teams being used for gambling crackdowns and serving a search warrant are routine in some places like Fairfax VA 146 There has been a more than 1400 increase in the amount of SWAT deployments between 1980 and 2000 according to estimates by Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska 147 Balko states that in 2007 a Dallas SWAT team raided a Veterans organization s charity poker games In 2010 a team of heavily armed Orange County Florida sheriff s deputies raided several barbershops holding barbers and customers at gunpoint while they turned the shops inside out Of the 37 people arrested 34 were taken in for barbering without a license 148 The Orlando barbershop raids were subsequently challenged in court and in 2014 the U S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that it violated clearly established Fourth Amendment rights for the government to conduct a run of the mill administrative inspection as though it is a criminal raid 149 The ACLU has stated that heavily armed SWAT teams are raiding people s homes in the middle of the night often just to search for drugs causing people to needlessly di e during these raids in which neighborhoods are turned into warzones 115 Snipers Edit Law enforcement snipers commonly called police snipers and military snipers differ in many ways including their areas of operation and tactics A police sharpshooter is part of a police operation and usually takes part in relatively short missions Police forces typically deploy such sharpshooters in hostage scenarios This differs from a military sniper who operates as part of a larger army engaged in warfare Sometimes as part of a SWAT team police snipers are deployed alongside negotiators and an assault team trained for close quarters combat As policemen they are trained to shoot only as a last resort when there is a direct threat to life the police sharpshooter has a well known rule Be prepared to take a life to save a life 150 Police snipers typically operate at much shorter ranges than military snipers generally under 100 meters 109 yd and sometimes even less than 50 meters 55 yd Both types of snipers do make difficult shots under pressure and often perform one shot kills A U S Secret Service sniper on the roof of the White HousePolice units that are unequipped for tactical operations may rely on a specialized SWAT team which may have a dedicated sniper Police snipers placed in vantage points such as high buildings can provide security for events 151 In one high profile incident Mike Plumb a SWAT sniper in Columbus Ohio prevented a suicide by shooting a revolver out of the individual s hand leaving him unharmed 152 The need for specialized training for police sharpshooters was made apparent in 1972 during the Munich massacre when the German police could not deploy specialized personnel or equipment during the standoff at the airport in the closing phase of the crisis and consequently all the Israeli hostages were killed While the German army did have snipers in 1972 the use of snipers of the German army in the scenario was impossible due to the German constitution s explicit prohibition of the use of the military in domestic matters This lack of police trained snipers was later addressed with the founding of the specialized police counter terrorist unit GSG 9 which subsequently became a widely copied model for a police special forces unit In September 2015 a San Bernardino Sheriff s Department sniper shot a suspect in a fast moving car from a helicopter The suspect leapt from his car and died on the side of the road but his vehicle continued forward striking another vehicle and critically injuring three civilians 153 Protest policing Edit Rank of Icelandic National Police officers in full riot gear during the 2008 Icelandic lorry driver protestsObservers have noted the militarizing of the policing of protests 10 11 Riot police are police who are organized deployed trained or equipped to confront crowds protests or riots Riot police may be regular police who act in the role of riot police in particular situations or they may be separate units organized within or in parallel to regular police forces Riot police are used in a variety of different situations and for a variety of different purposes They may be employed to control riots as their name suggests to disperse or control crowds to maintain public order or discourage criminality or to protect people or property In some cases riot police may function as a tool of political repression by violently breaking up protests and suppressing dissent or civil disobedience A riot policeman sprays pepper spray at seated protesters during the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 Riot police often use special equipment termed riot gear to help protect themselves and attack protesters or rioters Riot gear typically includes personal armor batons riot shields and riot helmets Many riot police teams also deploy specialized less than lethal weapons such as pepper spray tear gas rifles that fire rubber bullets or plastic bullets flashbang grenades and Long Range Acoustic Devices sound cannons The police tactics used during the 2001 Quebec City protest serve as an example of the approaches used by North American riot police During the protest riot police fired tear gas canisters water cannon and rubber bullets 154 dispersing large groupings of protesters both violent and peaceful including teach ins and teams of medics providing first aid to other protesters Other tactical interventions aimed at arresting various perceived movement leaders 155 Allegedly plastic bullets were being used increasingly by riot police and from guns with laser sights so at night people could often see that the cops were intentionally aiming for heads or groins 156 Military weapons Edit A Colt AR 15 Carbine with a Colt 4 20 scope A Colt M4 Carbine with ACOG scope An M16A1 assault rifle The Heckler amp Koch MP5 a submachine gun Between 2006 and 2014 almost 5 000 M16 rifles were distributed to local and state law enforcement agencies in Ohio under the surplus military equipment program 157 Effects EditA 2017 study found a statistically significant positive relationship between militarization of the police and fatalities from officer involved shootings 158 159 Two studies in the American Economic Journal Economic Policy concluded that federal grants of military equipment to local police under the 1033 Program led to a reduction in crime However these studies were criticized for using inappropriate data Studies that used better data failed to replicate the findings of those studies 160 161 162 163 A 2018 study published in the journal PNAS found that militarized police units are more often deployed in communities with large shares of African American residents even after controlling for local crime rates The study also found that militarized policing fails to enhance officer safety or reduce local crime 18 In popular culture EditThe 2015 video game Battlefield Hardline depicts a militarized police and it depicts both police and criminals wielding military grade equipment including rifles machine guns and grenade launchers The developer s insistence on fantasy while meticulously recreating LA areas and loosely basing crimes in the game on real life crimes has subsequently been criticized 164 165 166 The documentary Peace Officer which is about police militarization in the U S won the 2015 Documentary Feature Competition Grand Jury award at the South by Southwest Film Festival 167 168 The documentary Do Not Resist by Craig Atkinson is also 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