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 ...

Former President Barack Obama sounded the alarm on “dangerous trends” of President Donald Trump’s militarization and federalization of local and state law enforcement. Obama shared an opinion piece on ...

The bright red line between domestic policing and our military is being blurred and represents an existential threat to our freedoms, our democratic values — and our way of life. President Donald ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last August, Ferguson and Fallujah had a lot in common. Those protesting the death of Michael Brown were met with “armored vehicles, noise-based crowd-control devices, shotguns, M4 rifles like those ...

A bill allowing the Indiana governor to deploy a “military police force” of the Indiana National Guard throughout the state ...