By arming local police departments with military grade equipment, domestic policing has come to resemble a combat operation with citizens as the enemy.
The widening use of militarized police units effectively nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the armed forces for civilian policing.
Frida Berrigan, TomDispatch.com. January 13, 2007.
The Armed Forces can't adequately equip those already in uniform, but the Pentagon is committing itself to massive corporate contracts for new high-tech weapons systems slated to come on-line decades from now.
