Obama’s “Legacy”: Militarization of the Police Increased 24-Fold!
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Capitalist News Interpreted /
17 Aug 2016
If we told you that a President of the United States, over a period of eight years, has increased the funds for the militarization of the police 24-fold (2,400%), we suspect you would say that president was a Republican. Well, guess again. It was the Democrat, Barak Obama. One author called him the greatest war hawk president in history.
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.