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“The overwhelming majority of SWAT raids it studied were for … serving a search warrant in drug cases, not cases involving violence. [This] erodes public trust, particularly in communities of color, and turns what should be a peaceful encounter into a paramilitary raid."
Local Democratic Oversight of Police Militarization
Harvard Law and Policy Review
Vol. 10 Issue 1, pp. 59–75,
2016
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