Reconsidering Police Militarization
Riot police stand in formation at an anti-Trump rally at the San Diego Convention Center.
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and cited two papers that appeared in the August issue of the òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy in an article about President Trump’s plans to give surplus military weapons to local law enforcement agencies. The papers were used in a background brief prepared by the Justice Department, according to the Post. One of the papers by and found that military aid was a cost-effective way to reduce street-level crime. The other, by , , Donald J. Bruce, and , found that providing military equipment to local police had “generally positive effects.” It reduced citizen complaints and assaults on officers, while increasing drug crime arrests without increasing offender deaths.