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“Restrict[ing] the federal transfer of military equipment to local police departments…gives the surface appearance of answering the radical challenges presented by insurgent protest [but] it clearly does not actually address the racism and…brutality which sparks revolt."

Pacification and Police: A Critique of the Police Militarization Thesis
Capital & Class
Vol. 41 Issue 1, pp. 115–132,
2017
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