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From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
by John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” — Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
If 2014 was the year of militarized police, armored tanks, and stop-and-frisk searches, 2015 may well be the year of technologized police, surveillance blimps and scan-and-frisk searches.
Just as we witnessed neighborhood cops being transformed into soldier cops, we’re about to see them shapeshift once again, this time into robocops, complete with robotic exoskeletons, super-vision contact lenses, computer-linked visors, and mind-reading helmets.
Similarly, just as military equipment created for the battlefield has been deployed on American soil against American citizens, we’re about to see military technology employed here at home in a manner sure to annihilate what’s left of our privacy and Fourth Amendment rights.
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Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2015/01/from-neighborhood-cops-to-robocops-the-changing-face-of-american-police/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-neighborhood-cops-to-robocops-the-changing-face-of-american-police
