Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America

Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America

Filed under: Drug Use Baltimore

It's quicker and easier for the police to use overwhelming force. "There are just too many of these cases," says Joe Key, a longtime cop who served in the Baltimore police department from 1971 to 1995 and started the department's SWAT team. …. But …
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Eric Holder's Reforms to Minimum Drug Sentencing Don't Address Structural

Filed under: Drug Use Baltimore

I'm Jaisal Noor in Baltimore. The United States accounts for 5 percent of the world's population but incarcerates almost a quarter of the planet's prisoners, leading the world in prisoner-to-population ratio. Attorney General Eric Holder, in a speech …
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Arrests and summonses

Filed under: Drug Use Baltimore

Ariel Grimes, 18, of White Hall, Baltimore County, Md., possessing a useable amount of marijuana. Virginia Damian-Oldham, 61, of Bar … Sean Harrington, 24, of Philadelphia, Pa., criminal trespass, sale and or use of drug paraphernalia. Patrick Wilson …
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