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Wed Sep 23 21:41:37 +0000 2020

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ACLU @ACLU

After September 11, 2001, the militarization of local and state police saw its biggest increase since the 1960s. Over the past two decades, DOJ and DHS have granted hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funds to state and local law enforcement for “counterterrorism.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 23, 2020 Hibernated

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In 1994, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act was passed, providing federal funding for state and local law enforcement agencies to hire 100,000 new officers. It gave local law enforcement agencies $14 billion and allocated over $9 billion for prison construction. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 23, 2020 Hibernated

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Today, federal funding is spent blanketing cities and towns with surveillance cameras, subscriptions to data brokers, and on cutting-edge technologies like “Stingray” cell phone trackers — technologies that surveil and police Black and Brown communities and people. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 23, 2020 Hibernated