Police
Department of Defense Writes to the Tenth Amendment Center on Police Militarization
A recent Tenth Amendment Center article on an Oregon bill to help block federal militarization of police caught the attention of the U.S Department of Defense. House Bill 3243 (HB3243) would bar state and local police departments from acquiring certain types of...
Local Cops Have Access to Mind-Boggling Array of Spy Gear
Local police departments have access to a mind-boggling array of spy-gear that would send Big Brother into convulsions of envy. Late last year, we reported on a secret U.S. government catalogue of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and intelligence...
An In-Depth Look at Cooperation Between Glendale, AZ Police and the ATF
In May, we reported on a partnership between an Arizona police department and the ATF. According to documents we obtained, the police department signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the ATF establishing that it would provide manpower to the federal agency. In...
Feds Giving Local Cops a License to Kill
Through partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies, local cops can essentially obtain a license to kill. In a recent article, I showed how local, state and federal law enforcement have increasingly morphed into one national police force, an unholy alliance...