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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: While public schools go begging...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: While public schools go begging...:

While public schools go begging...

Cities spend billions on militarization

Thousands of local police departments nationwide have been amassing stockpiles of military-style equipment in the name of homeland security, aided by more than $34 billion in federal grants since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Daily Beast investigation conducted by the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. Obvious question for Occupiers is, who are these WMDs really pointing at?

Answers could come from Chuck Wexler who runs the govt.-funded Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Despite implausible denials here and in this