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158
Radley Balko, "Death by SWAT,"
Reason Magazine
(Jan. 2009),
http://reason.com/
archives/2008/12/05/death-by-swat.
159
The Cato Institute provides a useful map, prepared by Radley Balko, of botched raids nationwide at
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
.
160
Radley Balko, "Another Isolated Incident,"
Reason Hit and Run Blog
(June 23,2009), http:// reason.com/blog/2009/06/23/another-isolated-incident.
161
Radley Balko, "Another Isolated Incident,"
Reason Hit and Run Blog
(Dec. 11,2008),cato.org/raidmap/">
http://reason.com/blog/2008/12/ll/another-isolated-incident.
162
Radley Balko, "Another Isolated Incident,"
Reason Hit and Run Blog
(Jan. 30,2009),
http:// reason.com/blog/2009/01/30/another-isolated-incident.
163
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
164
Tom Finnegan, "Wrong-house Bust Brings Suit,"
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
(Jan. 12, 2006),
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2006/01/12/news/story08.html
.
165
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
.
166
Phuong Cat Le and Hector Castro, "Police are too quick to grab for Taser's power, say critics,"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Nov. 30, 2004),
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/201700_ taser30.html
.
167
John Vining, "'A Terrible Mistake': SWAT Teams in the US,"
The Epoch Journal
(June 1, 2009),
http://epochjournal.org/2009/06/01/the-story-of-swat-teams-in-the-us/
.
168
Radley Balko, "Drug War Police Tactics Endanger Innocent Citizens,"
FOX News
(July 21, 2006),
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6552/
.
169
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
.
170
Radley Balko, "Your Friendly Paramilitary Police Raid Post,"
Reason Hit and Run Blog
(Jan. 12,2009),
http://reason.com/blog/2009/01/12/your-friendly-paramilitary-pol
.
171
Ted Conover, "A Snitch's Dilemma,"
New York Times
(June 29,2012),
http://www.nytimes
. com/2012/07/0 l/magazine/alex-white-professional-snitch.html?pagewanted=all.
172
Randall Chase, "Del. city settles in shooting of former Marine,"
Marine Corps Times
(Dec. 10, 2010),
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/12/ap-marine-city-family-settle-in-shooting-death-121010/
.
173
Shaila K. Dewan, "City to Pay $1.6 Million in Fatal, Mistaken Raid,"
New York Times
(Oct. 29, 2003),
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/29/nyregion/city-to-pay-l.6-million-in-fatal-mistaken-raid.html
.
174
Robert Bauman, "Exclusive Justice,"
Reason
(May 1995),
http://reason.com/archives/1995/
05/01/exclusive-justice.
175
Joel Miller, "The Problem with Drug Raids,"
World Net Daily
(Sept. 15,1999),
http://www
. wnd.com/1999/09/6289/.
176
Caroline Black, "Police Raid that Killed Child Was 'Flawed,' Says Lawyer; Filming for TV Got Officers 'Excited,'"
CBS News
(May 17, 2010),
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20005157-504083.html
.
177
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
.
178
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
.
179
Radley Balko, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," Cato Institute (July 17,2006),
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/balko_whitepaper_2006.pdf
.
180
Radley Balko, "Jose Guerena Killed: Cops Shoot Former Marine in Botched Pot Raid,"
The Huffington Post
(May 25,2011),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html
.
181
Radley Balko, "Jose Guerena Killed: Cops Shoot Former Marine in Botched Pot Raid,"
The Huffington Post
(May 25,2011),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html
.
182
Ellen Tumposky, "Arizona SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times,"
ABC News
(May 20, 2011),
http://abcnews.go.com/US/tucson-swat-team-defends-shooting-iraq-marine-veteran/story?id=13640112
.
183
Barbara Grijalva, "Double murder takes parents of two young Tucson girls,"
Tucson News Now
(April 5, 2010),
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/12225088/double-murder-takes-parents-of-two-young-tucson-girls?redirected=true
.
184
Ellen Tumposky, "Arizona SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times,"
ABC News
(May 20, 2011),
http://abcnews.go.com/US/tucson-swat-team-defends-shooting-iraq-marine-veteran/story?id=13640112
.
185
Fernanda Echavarri, "SWAT Team Fired 71 Shots in Raid,"
Arizona Daily Star
(May 11,2011) ,
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_d7d979d4-f4fb-5603-af76-
0bef206f8301.html.
186
http://pimasheriff.org/files/1013/0463/5381/OIS050511.pdf
187
Radley Balko, "Jose Guerena Killed: Cops Shoot Former Marine in Botched Pot Raid,"
The Huffington Post
(May 25,2011),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-arizona-_n_867020.html
.
188
Radley Balko, "Jose Guerena Killed: Cops Shoot Former Marine in Botched Pot Raid,"
The Huffington Post
(May 25,2011),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/jose-guerena-
arizona-_n_867020.html.
189
Peter Kraska and Victor Kappeler, "Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units,"
Social Problems
, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Feb. 1997), p. 7, available on JSTOR at
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3096870
.
190
"Martin and Leona Goldberg,"
Government Abuse Information
(March 31, 2004),
http://
governmentabuse.info/reports/view/1825.
191
Jerry Markon, "Violent crime in U.S. on the decline,"
The Washington Post
(May 25,2010),
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052402210
. html.
192
Ronald Bailey, "How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?"
Reason
(Sept. 6, 2011),
http:// reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should
.
193
Radley Balko, "A Decade After 9/11, Police Departments Are Increasingly Militarized,"
The Huffington Post
(Nov. 12, 2011),
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/police-militarization-9-ll-september-ll_n_955508.html
.
194
Stephen Gutwillig, "America needs strategy to exit its longest war,"
Daily News
(June 16, 2011),
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_18294627
195
Radley Balko, "The Drug War Goes to the Dogs,"
Reason
(April 5, 2006),
http://www.cato
. org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3ESee.
196
Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation and
http://www.drugsense.org/
cms/wodclock.
197
Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation and
http://www.drugsense.org/
cms/wodclock.
198
Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Crime in the United States," Federal Bureau of Investigation (1991),
http://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/War_on_Drugs#cite_ref-50
.
199
Radley Balko, "The Drug War Goes to the Dogs,"
Reason
(April 5, 2006),
http://www.cato
. org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3ESee.
200
John Vining, "'A Terrible Mistake': SWAT Teams in the US,"
The Epoch Journal
(June 1, 2009),
http://epochjournal.org/2009/06/01/the-story-of-swat-teams-in-the-us/
.
201
Paul Armentano, "Alcohol Lobby Now Openly Spending Against CA's Legal Pot Initiative in Alliance with Police Industrial Complex,"
Alternet
(Sept. 17,2010),
http://www.alternet
. org/story/148213/alcohol_lobby_now_openly_spending_against_ca's_Legal_pot_initiative_ in_alliance_with_police_industrial_complex.
202
Eric Blumenson and Eva Nilsen, "Policing for Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda,"
University of Chicago Law Review
(65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 35 (1998)),
http://lawreview
. uchicago.edu/issues/archive/v65/winter/nilsen.html. Quote taken from abstract as cited on
http://www.fear.org/chicago.html
.

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203
Marcus Baram, "Fear Pays: Chertoff, Ex-Security Officials Slammed for Cashing in on Government Experience,"
Huffington Post
(Nov. 23, 2010),
http://www.huffingtonpost
. com/2010/ll/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html.
204
Jennifer Abel, "The Fightback Against TSA Tyranny Begins,"
Guardian
(March 10, 2011),
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/10/transport-usdomesticpolicy
.
205
CNN Wire Staff, "TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman in Florida," CNN (June 28,2011),
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/
.
206
Laura Riparbelli, "TSA Screenings Outrage Some Airline Passengers,"
ABC World News
(July 16, 2011),
http://abcnews.go.com/US/airport-security-measures-prompt-outrage-elderly-children/story?id=14081084#
.
207
Associated Press, "Transportation Security Administration defends pat-down of Isabella Brademeyer, 4, in Kansas,"
CBS News
(April 26, 2012),
http://www.cbsnews
. com/8301-20 l_162-57421681/transportation-security-administration-defends-pat-down-of-isabella-brademeyer-4-in-kansas/.
208
Tara Servatius, "TSA Now Storming Public Places 8,000 Times a Year,"
American Thinker
(June 20, 2011),
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/tsa_now_storming_public_ places_8000_times_a_tear.html
.
209
"Screening of Passengers at Savannah Amtrak Station,"
TSA Blog
(Feb. 26, 2011), http:// blog.tsa.gov/2011/02/screening-of-passengers-at-savannah.html.
210
Tara Servatius, "TSA Now Storming Public Places 8,000 Times a Year,"
American Thinker
(June 20, 2011),
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/tsa_now_storming_public_ places_8000_times_a_tear.html
.
211
"TSA Security Checkpoints Coming to a 'Soft" Spot Near You," taken from CBS News, accessed at Youtube,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2p6f4AsnmO&feature=player_
detailpage.
212
"TSA Security Checkpoints Coming to a 'Soft' Spot Near You,"
CBS News
(May 4, 2011),
http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/04/tsa-security-checkpoints-coming-to-a-soft-spot-near-you/
.
213
Jim Harper, "'VIPR Stands for 'Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response'..."
Cato@ Liberty
(Oct. 27,2009),
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/vipr-stands-for-visible-intermodal-prevention-and-response/
.

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