By 2011, Homeland Security had spent $34 billion in domestic military grants to police forces, going to all-sized cities.56 Balko traces the militarization and increased violence of the police back to the postwar civil rights and anti-war organizing and demonstrations, particularly the Nixon administration’s war on drugs, which led to a gradual increase in the size, scope, and culture of the police.
Massive miklitarization of pooice forfces - excess materiel from Iraq a d Afghanistan
