Epidemic Of Police Brutality & Harassment Sweeps America & UK
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/210907_b_brutality.htm
"An epidemic of violence and harassment is sweeping the country.
Police are being trained that the general public are the enemy and
that they can engage in outright brutality without recourse. Taser
deaths are skyrocketing because the police have been ordered to use
'pain compliance', otherwise known as torture, to subdue and oppress
the citizenry. Police are also increasingly completely unaware of the
laws they are supposed to enforce and have resolved to invent offences
out of thin air as an excuse to harass people."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_gFJJXLv28

http://media.indypgh.org/uploads/2005/08/taser1_edit.mov

http://www.guzer.com/videos/no_beating.php

http://www.wndu.com/news/headlines/9814706.html#

http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/media/2004/03/288.mov

http://www.break.com/index/arkansas-police-brutality.html

http://www.break.com/index/arkansas-police-brutality.html

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/165853/cop_goes_a_little_crazy/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1020444/taser_incident/

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/242950/lapd_brutally/



Even the right wing CATO institute has noticed the increasing
militarization of the police in America:
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476
"Americans have long maintained that a man's home is his castle and
that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders.
Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years,
America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law
enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of
paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and
Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT
teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced,
unannounced entry into the home.

"These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate,
are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and
wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded
while they're sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary
units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids
bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug
offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids
terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence.
And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not
only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children,
bystanders, and innocent suspects."

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