Report: Local Law Enforcement Receiving Billions in Weapons From Pentagon
“They will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” – George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)...
A New “Surge” Expands Unconstitutional Federal Involvement in Local Police
WASHINGTON (Nov. 2, 2019) – Invoking military language used during the Iraq war, President Trump announced a national police “surge” to crack down on violent crime. Trump announced the crime-fighting initiative during the International Association of...
Federal Funding is Erasing the Line Between State and Federal Policing
The federal government has fundamentally transformed state and local law enforcement agencies into a national police force, using funding to incentivize local cops to focus on federal law enforcement priorities. The Department of Homeland Security other federal...