SWAT - Revision history

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Progressingamerica: Swatting

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Swatting

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TheAmericanRedoubt at 18:50, October 14, 2014

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TheAmericanRedoubt at 18:49, October 14, 2014

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TheAmericanRedoubt: Added hyperlinks and See Also

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Added hyperlinks and See Also

TheAmericanRedoubt at 18:46, October 14, 2014

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TheAmericanRedoubt at 18:45, October 14, 2014

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Aortuso: My mistake

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My mistake

Aortuso at 02:54, August 14, 2011

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 ==Controversy==
-There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
+There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
 Swat teams have been used for harassment purposes, see: [[Swatting]].

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 ==Controversy==
 There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
 ==See also==

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 There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
-==See Also==
+==See also==
 * [[War on Drugs]]
 * [[War on Terror]]

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 ==Controversy==
 There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
 ==See Also==

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 '''SWAT''' is an [[acronym]] for '''S'''pecial '''W'''eapons '''a'''nd '''T'''actics, and is the term that describes a unit of a city [[police]] force or a county [[sheriff]]'s department in the [[United States]] specially equipped and trained to deal with high-risk situations that would be too dangerous for patrol officers to deal with.
-The nearest equivalents to SWAT in countries other than the United States are the national gendarmeries in various countries in [[Europe]], including the [[France|French]] Gendarmerie and the [[Italy|Italian]] carabinieri. The key difference is that SWAT is a specialized team of police officers or sheriff's deputies trained in [[military]] [[weapon]]s and [[infantry]] assault tactics, while still answerable to a local police chief or sheriff. [[European]] gendarmeries exist as separate national police forces. Whilst in [[Australia]] they have [[Special Operations]] Group and in [[[New Zealand]] the Special Tactics Group. Both these units worked together during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
+The nearest equivalents to SWAT in countries other than the United States are the national gendarmeries in various countries in [[Europe]], including the [[France|French]] Gendarmerie and the [[Italy|Italian]] carabinieri. The key difference is that SWAT is a specialized team of police officers or sheriff's deputies trained in [[military]] [[weapon]]s and [[infantry]] assault tactics, while still answerable to a local police chief or sheriff. [[European]] gendarmeries exist as separate national police forces. Whilst in [[Australia]] they have [[Special Operations]] Group and in [[New Zealand]] the Special Tactics Group. Both these units worked together during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
 ==Controversy==

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 ==Controversy==
-There is much discussion on the [[Police State]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
+There is much discussion on the [[Police state]] level of militarization of the local [[law enforcement]] including "no knock raids" and automatic asset forfeiture without trial as part of the [[War on Drugs]] and the [[War on Terror]]. The most well known of the many books on the subject of the overuse of the SWAT teams is from [[Radley Balko]], a policy analyst at the [[Cato Institute]], authored ''Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America''.<ref>Radley Balko, [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html "In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling"], ''Fox News'', May 1, 2006</ref>
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 * [[War on Drugs]]
 * [[War on Terror]]
-* [[Police State]]
+* [[Police state]]
 * [[Law enforcement]]
 [[Category:Government]]
 [[Category:Law]]
 [[Category:Law Enforcement]]