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U.S. Police have spent millions on mass surveillance tools for cellphones, but as of 2017 there were still few rules about what happens to the information they capture.[1]
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Militarization
US police are increasingly using surplus military equipment. In 2015, North Dakota became the first use state to allow police use of drones armed with less than lethal weapons such as tasers, rubber bullets and tear gas after a last-minute push by a lobbyist.[2]
Homicides
In March 2015, US police killed 111 people, over twice the total that the UK police killed in the entire 20th century.[3]
SWAT
An invention of the LAPD, SWAT teams are increasingly used by US police, mostly to raid private homes as part of the "war on drugs".
An event carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Wakefield standoff | Massachusetts US | A standoff between an anti-government militia and the police, in July 2021 in Wakefield, Massachusetts. |
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Capitol Police | The US Capitol police is tasked with protecting the US Capitol, receiving a budget of $500 million. Full of racial discrimination according to former personnel since the 2000s. Some dozen officers have been arrested in aiding the mob that attacked them in the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots. |
| Chicago Police Department | |
| LAPD | |
| NYPD |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Sheu | “The ultimate, terrifying moral of the Sunny Sheu story is this: If you are threatened with death by the police in the USA, there is no where you can go for protection, and after you are killed, there is no where your friends and loved ones can go for justice. That is why this story is of critical important to every American citizen.” | Sunny Sheu Will Galison | January 2016 |
Event Witnessed
| Event | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta sex trafficking operation | Atlanta Georgia (State) US | A sex trafficking operation in Atlanta. |
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