Quantifying the additional killings commited by cops when they get military weapons
“A academic trio consisting of a political scientist, a psychologist, and a social scientist examined the use of force records from similar police forces with differing levels of military equipment and training transfers under 1033 to determine whether militarizing the police results in increased use of force by the officers.
“Conclusion: ‘We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between 1033 transfers and fatalities from officer-involved shootings across all models.'”
The US Department of Defense’s 1033 program sends “surplus” military equipment to US police forces (“surplus” in quotes because military contractors lobby for the US m…
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