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Military Wannabes, Officer Friendly Evolves To Officer Kill & Destroy: Militarization Of Police Threatens Posse Comitatus, Christopher C. Cooper Apr 2010

Military Wannabes, Officer Friendly Evolves To Officer Kill & Destroy: Militarization Of Police Threatens Posse Comitatus, Christopher C. Cooper

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MILITARY WANNABES, OFFICER FRIENDLY EVOLVES TO OFFICER KILL & DESTROY: MILITARIZATION OF POLICE THREATENS POSSE COMITATUS BY PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER C. COOPER, JD, ESQ., PHD. (Visiting FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR) University of Akureyri, Iceland Department of Law and Social Sciences cooperlaw3234@gmail.com (C) COPYRIGHT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO AUTHOR. JANUARY 2009 DO NOT COPY WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM AUTHOR ABSTRACT This article takes the position that the strength of the Posse Comitatus Act has been and continues to be completely eroded by many U.S. Police Departments having established the equivalent of armies. The underlying foundation of the Posse Comitatus Act is the objective of no …