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DESCRIPTION:Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of Police Forces in America and 
 Sonoma County\n\nRadley Balko is senior writer and investigative reporter 
 for The Huffington Post, as well as a blogger for the Washington Post. 
 Previously, he was a senior editor at Reason magazine, and a policy analyst 
 for the Cato Institute, specializing in vice and civil liberties issues. He 
 writes on drug policy, police misconduct,and civil liberties. He also 
 writes on trade and globalization issues and more generally on politics and 
 culture. He was also a biweekly columnist for Fox News from 2002 until 
 2009.c His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, 
 Playboy, TIME magazine, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, 
 Reason, Worth magazine, Canada's National Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He 
 has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. 
 \n\nIn his latest book"Rise of the Warrior Cop", Balko shows how 
 politicians' ill-considered policies and relentless declarations of war 
 against vague enemies like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the 
 distinction between cop and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative 
 shows how over a generation, a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated 
 and alienated American police officers and put them on a collision course 
 with the values of a free society.\n\nThe last days of colonialism taught 
 America's revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and 
 tyranny. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military 
 out of law enforcement. But according to investigative reporter Radley 
 Balko, over the last several decades, America's cops have increasingly come 
 to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no 
 longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and 
 police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as an 
 otheran enemy.\n\nToday's armored-up policemen are a far cry from the 
 constables of early America. The unrest of the 1960s brought about the 
 invention of the SWAT unitwhich in turn led to the debut of military 
 tactics in the ranks of police officers. Nixon's War on Drugs, Reagan's War 
 on Poverty, Clinton's COPS program, the post9/11 security state under Bush 
 and Obama: by degrees, each of these innovations expanded and empowered 
 police forces, always at the expense of civil liberties. And these are just 
 four among a slew of reckless programs.\n\n\nTickets\n\nSRJC Students and 
 Employees: Free\nMUST HAVE VALID SRJC IDENTIFICATION TO ENTER WITH THIS 
 TICKET\n\nGeneral Public: $9\n\nBuy tickets: 
 http://warriorcop.brownpapertickets.com/\n 
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SUMMARY:Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of Police Forces in America and Sonoma County
LOCATION:Santa Rosa Junior College Newman Auditorium\n1501 Mendocino Avenue, Santa 
 Rosa, CA 95404
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