LINKTV Democracy Now December 26, 2012
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...