The Warrior Cop

The book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Force by Radley Balko argues that the police department are using more military like equipment for the same crime that have always been around; that can be settled with normal police equipment and tactics. We will learn that in today’s society too many police departments are increasing their police equipment that is involving into a war like mentality. The author continues on and talks about the war on drugs, and their affected to the SWAT teams created. Balko does an astonishing job because the book supports many arguments, with an appealing narrative method. The book tries to explain how police departments have been evolving towards a militaristic approach to crime. One big key issue that is argued through the book is the government is wasting a ton of money on police departments that are not using that money wisely. To begin with, the view that Balko has as to why the force should be wasting money on rescuing kittens, friendlies neighborhood beats, or anything not important to society, other than using the money for military. The police department has changed through the years, and Balko mentions those changes through the years has affected the way we operate today. The police has been very difficult through the years, they are now willing to kill “incident people”. The police is killing animals that belong to the criminal, suspect, or even victimized. They are creating chaos in this world, and more and more riots, will be created if it continues. The government is not just wasting a ton of money, but also hurting society by punishing innocent citizens. One example, from class, is a police shot and killed, a citizen. A citizen that was carrying a knife, and was asked by the officer to drop it. He was killed because he did not hear! The police may not know that he is deaf, but he needs to assume. These are the kind of situations the police department needs to focus on, yet they're trying to rescue kittens and waste a ton of money. The solution is simple, eliminate the money used to militarized, and start making the police department money to …show more content…
The war on drugs was going out of control and the president wanted to make stop to it. President Nixon wanted to end the war on drugs, on the street, so he increased military, but the amount of drugs on the streets was decreasing. Drugs is an issue in the society, but the normal police department with their tactics and weapons, can solve this conflict. Nixon needed to find patients, because once military started being a part of it riots were created. For example, innocent people were being killed by police in raids over drugs, sometimes they were not a part of the situation. (P128) The main argument is Richard wanted military involved in society to protect from the drugs on the streets, other than trusting the tactics of the police department. We need to learn that that this society is our society and not our enemy. Also we need to do a better job in being patient, and learn how to control our community. The police department needs to find different tactics and find solutions to the war on drugs, although they have been decreasing at that point in