ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Police Conduct

Arrest the racism
Source: ACLU
Country: United States

In their battle against drug smugglers on the nation's highways, police have adopted pseudo-scientific "profiles" that are often overtly racist. (10/25/99)

Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Diane Cecilia Weber
Country: United States

With the current scandal around the use of the military at Waco, Diane Weber looks at the rise of the paramilitarism in civilian police activities. Available online in Adobe PDF format. (8/31/99)

Race, rights and police brutality
Source: Amnesty International
Country: United States

The noted international human rights organization looks at the growing problem of police beatings, unjustified shootings, and cruel restraint techniques, and their relationship to bias in law enforcement. (10/25/99)

Can soldiers be peace officers? The Waco disaster and the militarization of American law enforcement
Source: Independence Institute
Author: David. B. Kopel
Country: United States

The increasing use of military tactics and weapons by civilian law-enforcement agencies -- often in the name of the war on drugs -- has inevitably resulted in tragedy. (10/25/99)

Shielded from justice
Source: Human Rights Watch
Country: United States

This Human Rights Watch report provides a city-by-city breakdown of problems with police misconduct in the United States. (10/25/99)

Fighting police abuse
Source: ACLU
Country: United States

The American Civil Liberties Union suggests step-by-step approaches for tracking and reining in police misconduct on a community-wide basis. (10/25/99)

The roots of racial profiling
Source: Reason
Author: Gene Callahan and William Anderson
Country: United States

"[T]he practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very tangible sources, all attributable to the War on Drugs... The sources include the difficulty in policing victimless crimes in general and the resulting need for intrusive police techniques ..." (07/30/01)

When cops become combat troops
Source: Salon
Country: United States

The controversial use of force to seize Elián González is just business as usual in the war on drugs. (8/15/00)

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