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From: "H. C. Covington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: HOW FAR CAN MILITARY TRAINING OF POLICE GO?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 00:31:59 -0500
HOW FAR CAN MILITARY TRAINING OF POLICE GO?
Observers say that the military has greatly stepped up training
of civilian police and arming them with weaponry over the past 20
years. But federal law bars the military from direct law
enforcement activities -- such as searches, seizures and arrests.
Some criminal justice experts are worried that neighborhood
police are becoming too militarized.
o The Defense Department has provided everything from tanks
at the 1993 siege at Waco, Texas, to explosives experts to
blow out a prison door, to special forces training for the
FBI and small-town law-enforcement officers.
o In 1996-97, the Pentagon issued more than a million pieces
of equipment to local police departments.
o One military organization alone -- Joint Task Force Six,
an anti-narcotics force based in southwest Texas --
provides 500 training missions to local law enforcement
each year.
o The task force's own guidelines in 1993 -- the year it
trained agents for the Waco raid -- stated that "legal and
policy barriers to the application of military
capabilities are gradually being eliminated."
Some experts warn that increasingly militarized civilian police
forces threaten civil liberties and can result in excessive force
being used.
Source: Rowan Scarborough, "Military Training of Civilian Police
Steadily Expands," Washington Times, September 9, 1999.
For more on Police Resources
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/crime42.html
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