Rep. Hank Johnson didn't like the Pentagon's surplus military transfer program long before Ferguson, Missouri, turned into a war zone. The Georgia Democrat, a member of the House Armed Services ...

“It fundamentally shifted the role of police from guardians to soldiers,” Dr. Jessica Katzenstein, an anthropologist who studies police militarization, said. “The idea of public safety was replaced by ...

The January 2012 raid of Matthew Stewart’s Ogden home that left one member of the Weber Morgan Narcotics Strike Force dead shocked the local community. But it didn’t come as much of a surprise to ...

Former President Barack Obama is continuing his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s actions, this time warning against the 47th president of the United States’ recent takeover of the D.C. local ...

WASHINGTON -- Dallas police ended a standoff with a gunman Friday morning by remotely detonating a "bomb robot," an unprecedented tactic by officers that rekindles concerns about the militarization of ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Over the last four years Texas police departments received 206,000 pieces of gear from the military, including 1,805 military rifles. In our area,102 military rifles are spread among ...

A decade ago, an encouraging bipartisan consensus was emerging for the need to reform public-safety policies in a way that improved crime-fighting and cost-efficiency and assured that policing better ...

Former President Barack Obama pushed his concerns about “dangerous trends” in President Donald Trump’s “militarization” of law enforcement and endorsed a New York Times interview with journalist ...