Take Action To Demilitarize Your Police

                    Take Action To Demilitarize Your Police

We usually encourage our readers to take action on specific issues by recommending groups that are working on the issue. This time we are looking to you for information or initiation of action.

We’ve watched for decades as local police have become more and more militarized. It has led to a culture of police brutality that is encouraged because officers face little if any consequences. It’s time for communities to demand that their local police de-escalate and de-militarize.

Perhaps you can be the first in the nation to take this issue to your local government and take action to de-militarize your police, whether it’s in your town or city or on your campus. Share what you do so that others can do the same. Contact us at info@popularresistance.org if you are working on this so we can share your work.

Here is a guide to the militarization of police by the ACLU: CLICK HERE TO READ IT.

Here is an interview with the Salt Lake City Chief of Police Chris Burbank who opposes militarization:http://www.alan.com/2013/10/30/a-police-chief-in-utah-wants-demilitarization-of-cops/

Here is a short documentary by Charles Shaw called “Release Us.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKt2Mhk73J4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUH45mtYB6_T5cNmKZ9d5S3A




500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ). 5,000 since 9/11, equal to the number of US soldiers lost in Iraq.

In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold War era military equipment to local police departments.

In the 20 years since, weaponry designed for use on a foreign battlefield, has been handed over for use on American streets…against American citizens.

The “War on Drugs” and the “War on Terror” replaced the Cold War with billions in funding and dozens of laws geared towards this new “war” against its own citizens.

This militarization of the police force has created what is being called an “epidemic of police brutality” sweeping the nation.

RELEASE US
a short film by Charles Shaw
featuring the track ‘RELEASE” by Random Rab
and excerpts from the films
“THE EXILE NATION PROJECT” by Charles Shaw

; “NO JUSTICE , NO PEACE” by Krissana Limlamai & Brett Huffhttps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHuW…

http://www.LiberationNews.org

P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act I, II & III (2001, 2004, 2010)
Homeland Security Act (2002)
Enhanced Border Security, Visa Entry Reform and
Immigrant Deportation Act (2002)
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention
Act (2004)
Military Commissions Act (2006, 2009)
The FISA Amendments Act (2008)
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

ExileNation.org
RandomRab.net