Military hardware & police violence
2017-07-02 15:52:24.077567+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Does military equipment lead police officers to be more violent? We did the research.:
Even controlling for other possible factors in police violence (such as household income, overall and black population, violent-crime levels and drug use), more-militarized law enforcement agencies were associated with more civilians killed each year by police. When a county goes from receiving no military equipment to $2,539,767 worth (the largest figure that went to one agency in our data), more than twice as many civilians are likely to die in that county the following year.