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Radley Balko police raids testimony, House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime

Submitted by David Borden on
Transcript on Reason web site here. The following quote sums up the root lack of logic at work in the use of SWAT teams for routine drug enforcement:
"[W]hen you’re dealing with nonviolent drug offenders, paramilitary police actions create violence instead of defusing it."

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