Stephen graham who wrote cities under siege the new military urbanism. He spoke last november on democracy now describing the level of equipment out sensible to Police Departments in the United States. Theres been a longstanding shift in north america and europe toward para militarize policing using helicopterstyle systems, using infrared sensors, using really, really heavy militarized weaponry. That has been longstanding fuelled by the war on drugs and other sort of explicit campaigns. More recently, there has been a big push since the end of the cold war by the big defense and security and i. T. Companies to sell things like Video Surveillance systems, things like geographic mapping systems, and even more recently, drone systems that are being used in the assassination raids in afghanistan and pakistan and elsewhere. That is stephen graham, author of, cities under siege the new military urbanism. Your final comment . Expressing weaponization in the way we live. Policing is one of the
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