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President Joe Biden was swept into office amid arguably the largest protest movement in U.S. history, so it’s worth taking a closer look at his chief public safety funding proposal, one that is central to his own legacy on police reform. Biden has promised to “reinvigorate” funding for the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, office with a $300 million investment in putting new “community policing” officers on the street. But funneling Department of...

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By Mark Anderson ALAMO, Texas—Hundreds of Donald Trump supporters braved unseasonably chilly weather Jan. 12, near the border town of Alamo, Texas, in Hidalgo County, to greet the president as he visited the area to christen “the 450th mile” of new or upgraded border wall sections—which represents roughly one-fifth of the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico. Some far-flung border areas, as Mr. Trump and others have pointed out, have natural barriers like mountains, cliffs, and canyons th...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. No one on Pittsburgh City Council is opposed to enacting legislation to ban no-knock warrants in the city. But council members Wednesday delayed passage of a proposed bill until it can iron out any legal issues with the law and meet with community members who are lobbying for it. Bans on law enforcement agencies serving a warrant without announcing their presence have been lobbi...

Law, jason johnson from hiram college and the author of "rise of the warrior cop." >> one of the things were happiest about is that the kind of heartbreak weve experienced after ferguson and after eric garner in two cases where a grand jury refused to indict that it hasnt precipitated with the news cycle. we hope it sends a message of urgency. >> in terms of police shootings, you recently wrote that officials with the justice department keep no comprehensive database nor record of police shootin...

Of police militarization in the united states specifically the report looks at the way that s.w.a.t. teams are using the weapons of war. my next is the writer of that "the washington post" article. hes also written a book, "rise of the warrior cop." after ten years of war in iraq and afghanistan, a lot of hardware is coming home. where it is ending up? >> a lot of it sending up at police departments across the country. were not even talking about big city police departments. these mine resistant...

That government branch records of our phone calls and e-mails know who we talked to and when i am not all that upset about it. i think my political enemies already spy on my calls and e-mails. it is a slippery slope. it could lead to terrible things. there are already things that by government does that upset me more. bradley balco rights about them in his new book "the rise of the warrior cop." what do you mean warrior cop? >> they are armed like soldiers trained in timilitary tactics a equipme...

The mainstream media is covering obamacare. apparently it is getting criticism from both the left and the right. well look at that. a new book says americas police departments are becoming more like the military and consequently trampling on civil liberties. the author of the new book, the rise of warrior cop. a former member of an elite s.w.a.t. team for a fair and balanced book. bill: well see you then, jenna. doing your nails got harder. why in one store you have to show i.d. to buy nail ...

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Im here with radley balko talking about his new book. "rise of the warrior cop." >> its been fueling it, without the war on drug, i dont think we would have the proliferation of s.w.a.t. teams and general militarization we do. >> a lot of these s.w.a.t. teams are going after drugs, drug raids largely theyre going. just the amount of money thats being spent on vehicles and armor and all these kind of toys for lack of a better word. it reminds me of a consistent theme in american politics which is...