Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/15/how-to-roll-back-police-militarization_n_3749272.html

Today in America, SWAT teams are deployed about 100 to 150 times per day, or about 50,000 times per year -- a dramatic increase from the 3,000 or so annual deployments in the early 1980s, or the few hundred in the 1970s. The vast majority of today's deployments are to serve search warrants for drug crimes. But the use of SWAT tactics to enforce regulatory law also appears to be rising.