Threat of Non-Lethal Chemical Weapons

Dangerous Ambiguities:Regulation of Riot Control Agents and Incapacitants under the Chemical Weapons Convention
In this report, Michael Crowley discusses some of the threats posed by non-lethal riot control and incapacitants chemical agents.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) created regulations for all chemical weapons. Non-lethal chemical agents, such as riot control agents [...]

Police states of America?

A protest against police brutality has taken place in New York. Demonstrators say police officers use their power to bully and attack innocent people.
Indeed, images of police brutality are viral on the internet. But those who get such kind of treatment are far from serial killers. You don’t have to look [...]

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Soldiers broke law in Alabama shooting response

SAMSON, Ala. — An Army investigation found that soldiers should not have been sent to man traffic stops in a small Alabama town after 11 people were killed in March during a shooting spree.
An Army report released to The Associated Press on Monday in response to a Freedom of Information [...]

The Atlantic Interviews Radley Balko

Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason Magazine whose award-winning investigative work focuses on criminal justice and civil liberties. His blog, The Agitator, is one of the most carefully curated resources for stories on the same subject.
Q. In your work, you’ve frequently reported on police abuses and the [...]

Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. Is Militarizing the Border

More troops, more searches, more surveillance drones. The U.S. is taking Canadians’ pictures as they cross the border, and their biometrics.
A camera snaps your license plate.
An electronic card reader mounted on a yellow post scans your car for the presence of any radio-frequency ID cards inside. If there is an enhanced [...]

Spying on anti-war protestors: US Army Concept of Operations for Police Intelligence Operations, 4 Mar 2009

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Mexico: Piedras Negras police strike to protest militarization

Disaffected members of the Piedras Negras police force in the Mexican border state of Coahuila returned to work April 22, after staging an overnight work stoppage. Some 50 officers assigned to the graveyard shift conducted the protest to express opposition to the new policies of a retired colonel, Arturo Navarro López, [...]

Alabama sheriff says he asked Rucker MPs for help

The Army is investigating the deployment of 22 active duty military police and the provost marshal from Fort Rucker, Ala., to Samson, Ala., following a killing spree by a civilian.
Ten people were killed in the March 10 rampage in southeastern Alabama by a man police identified as Michael McClendon, 28, of [...]

ACLU Report on Reconsideration of the Patriot Act

Reclaiming Patriotism: A Call to Reconsider the Patriot Act
“This report identifies the Patriot Act provisions that require intensive oversight and modification to prevent abuse. [...] More than seven years after its implementation, there is little evidence to demonstrate that the Patriot Act has made America more secure from terrorists. [...]

ITOTA: Counter-ambush tactics for the urban jungle

Editor’s Note: PoliceOne has partnered with the International Tactical Officers Training Association (ITOTA) to bring you feature articles from their outstanding quarterly publication. The following article first appeared in the pages of SWAT Digest magazine and is reprinted by permission of the publisher. Check back on Tuesdays toward [...]

Video: Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April

Update: (February 21, 2009)  Iowa National Guard Rolls Back Arcadia Invasion

SoCal Martial Law Alerts’ Checkpoint Response Team

SoCal Martial Law Alerts developed a “Checkpoint Response Team” specifically to respond to the announced CHP/Marine sobriety checkpoints in San Bernardino County along Highway 62 (an isolated stretch of high desert highway sandwiched between the Marine base to the north & Joshua Tree National Forest to the south — [...]

Veterans for Peace (VFP) Opposes Combat Brigade’s Permanent U.S. Assignment

A national veterans organization sent a letter to the House and Senate leadership Monday, October 6 expressing “grave concern” that an active duty combat brigade has been permanently assigned to a post on U.S. soil.
Citing a little-noticed article posted September 30 on the Army Times website, Veterans For Peace said [...]

The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It’s time to stop the mission creep

We no longer have a civilian-led government. It is hard for a lifelong Republican and son of a retired Air Force colonel to say this, but the most unnerving legacy of the Bush administration is the encroachment of the Department of Defense into a striking number of aspects of civilian [...]

Military at ToysRus Austin

Another propaganda recruiting effort under the Toys for Tots program.

See also:
America’s Child Soldiers: US Military Recruiting Children
“No Child Left Behind “: “Trojan Horse” for Pentagon Recruiters
Army signs “Community Covenant with High Desert Cities

CNN (from Lou Dobbs) on Martial Law, Posse Comitatus

Domestic Militarization Comes to San Bernardino County

Update: Marine “Military Presence” Confirmed in San Bernardino County
Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Provost Marshal (head of a unit of military police) and the local California Highway Patrol office will begin working together 12/12 — and through the holiday season — in a joint effort [...]

Dome Under Lock and Key

In early August 2007, as the House moved rapidly to pass legislation modifying the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act before its summer recess, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seemed uncertain about the details of the bill they were debating. There had been intense negotiations with the White House, and [...]

Washington Post: 20,000 More U.S. Troops To Be Deployed For “Domestic Security”

The Washington Post today reports on plans to station 20,000 more U.S. troops inside America for purposes of “domestic security” from September 2011, an expansion of Northcom’s militarization of the country in preparation for potential civil unrest following a total economic collapse or a mass terror attack.

In Courtroom Showdown, Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bush administration on Tuesday will try to convince a federal judge to let stand a law granting retroactive legal immunity to the nation’s telecoms, which are accused of transmitting Americans’ private communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.

A Cover for Illegal Domestic Operations?

On November 17, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) concluded Vigilant Shield 09 (VS09), described in a press release as a training exercise focused on “homeland defense and civil support.”
Launched by President Bush in 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, NORTHCOM has been mired [...]

The Militarization of our Local Police

The military industrial complex has absorbed a huge amount of our economy and the military has transformed local law enforcement by giving them billions of dollars in military equipment. We are rapidly being reduced to a nation whose economy primarily employs industry that supports the military, government, policing and prison systems.
If we don’t slam the [...]

Homeland Security Now Spying on Americans

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV´s) and Space-Based Domestic Spying Surveillance technology the U.S. Government is now watching American citizens under the guise of disaster management and controlling the U.S. Mexican border.