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To start looking at incentives and try to understand why you're producing -- >> what about the system is doing it? so what is broadly the argument of the rise of the warrior cop? what is new, what's risen? what do we have now that we didn't before? >> one is you have the rise of s.w.a.t. teams dramatic over the last 30 years. we've seen a 1,500% increase of s.w.a.t. teams. there are 3,000 s.w.a.t. raids per year in the 1980s. the vast majority of those are for consensual drug crimes. what i also argue in the book, though, this militarization, it's a mindset, right? it's not just the s.w.a.t. t...

Increasingly sees itself at war with the american people. joining me now is the author of "rise of the warrior cop," radley balko and also senior writing for the "huffington post." it's a fantastic book, remarkable reporting. i suggest folks check it out. what did you make of this report from the doj on miami? how atypical? where is this department on this spectrum? >> you said it was reminiscent of the lapd in the '90s but reminiscent -- this is not the first doj investigation in miami. in 2003, there were several officers indicted for planting guns at shootings. for wiping fingerprints off o...

Radley balko and also senior writing for the "huffington post." it's a fantastic book, remarkable reporting. i suggest folks check it out. what did you make of this report from the doj on miami? how atypical? where is this department on this spectrum? >> you said it was reminiscent of the lapd in the '90s but reminiscent -- this is not the first doj investigation in miami. in 2003, there were several officers indicted for planting guns at shootings. for wiping fingerprints off of guns at shootings. 1996, squad of miami cops shot richard brown, also unarmed 123 times while his daughter hid in t...

Bill: remarkable reporting, david piper from bangkok. david, thank you, southeast asia. martha: this disaster ranks among the most powerful earthquake on record, the highest magnitude quake ever struck chile with a magnitude of 9.5 and there are pictures from that event and 9.2 magnitude quake rocked alaska in 1964. that is the one that sent those waves into crescent city, california trace talked about moments ago and the third worst came most recently, we all remember this horrific event, 9.1 magnitude quick, epicenter, southeast asia, 2004, set off the worst humanitarian crisis in history. t...