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Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America

(Cato Institute, 2006)

 

POLICY FORUM

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

12:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow)

 

Featuring the author Radley Balko, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute,

with comments by Norm Stamper, Seattle Police Chief (Ret.) and author

of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop's Exposé of the Dark Side of Policing.

 

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Over the last 25 years, America has seen a dramatic and unsettling

rise in the use of SWAT units for routine police work. The most common

use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with

forced, unannounced entry into homes. These increasingly frequent

raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting

nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted suspects

to the terror of having their homes invaded while they're sleeping. In

a new Cato Institute white paper, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary

Police Raids in America, policy analyst Radley Balko looks at this

disturbing trend in police work and analyzes the drug war incentives

that have inspired it.

 

The Cato Institute gratefully acknowledges the support of the

Marijuana Policy Project in making this event possible.

 

 

 

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