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IPFS News Link • Homeland Security

Welcome To The Police Industrial Complex

• by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)
Want to make money on the drug war? Start a company that builds military equipment, then sell that gear to local police departments. Thanks to the generation-long trend toward more militarized police forces, there's now massive and growing market for private companies to outfit your neighborhood cops with gear that's more appropriate for a battlefield.