Disturbing...

[DigitalBuddha]

Disturbing...

Police officers in the US today are increasingly not only armed but heavily armoured.

The author and investigative reporter Radley Balko traces this shift in his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces.

Balko explains that race riots in the '60s and America's war on drugs in the subsequent decades led police departments to adopt weapons, uniforms and tactics inspired by military special forces. He writes that fears of terrorism after 9/11 accelerated the trend - even in unlikely targets such as rural Idaho.

OVER THE LINE! Radley Balko: Rise of America's warrior cop - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23368326

[A Dude]

The times are a changing man. It's getting scary.

[Judd Dude]

Fuckin A man, one of the many reasons I wanna live in the middle of nowhere and not near the shitty- I mean city

[DigitalBuddha]

@Judd Dude, @A Dude  ...fuckin' eh, mangs!

[Reverend Curb]

The culture of fear is just one more way for them to hammer the nail down so to speak. America has become increasingly frightening to me in many ways.

I'm with Judd Dude, always wanted to live out where my nearest neighbor is a mile or so down the trail.

[DigitalBuddha]

The culture of fear is just one more way for them to hammer the nail down so to speak. America has become increasingly frightening to me in many ways.

I'm with Judd Dude, always wanted to live out where my nearest neighbor is a mile or so down the trail.