Flutterby™! : Militarization does not make police safer

Today in the obvious: Two independent studies have drawn the same conclusions: billions of dollars in surplus military equipment that have been transferred by the federal government to thousands of U.S. police departments have not reduced crime or increased officer safety.

Nature Human Behavior — Counterevidence of crime-reduction effects from federal grants of military equipment to local police. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00995-5

And this link is not rendering correctly for me, but: Nature Human Behavior — Police demilitarization and violent crime. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XCTPNR