Mine Resistant Vehicles Used For Drug Busts

Mother Jones has a very interesting article regarding the militarization of our local police forces. Their magazine obtained more than 450 local requests for mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP.…

Prison Reform in California

Prison reform has begun in California: The California Fair Sentencing Act makes certain that people who are convicted of certain offenses involving crack cocaine will no longer receive harsher punishments…

Militarizing the Police

Tom Dispatch has a very good article about how society changes when we use the police to help solve social problems and sooner or later everyone will be treated like…