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Losing service-oriented police: state and local police departments, once independent and locally accountable, are succumbing to centralized control through myriad federal grants.(ON THE HOME FRONT)
One useful measure of the relative freedom of a given country is found in the way its citizens view the police. In dictatorships, the police are ubiquitous, and universally feared. Similar conditions prevail in "Banana Republics," where the police are usually too busy conniving in officially sanctioned crime to help those victimized by private criminals.
Unlike the citizens of most other nations, Americans have historically enjoyed the blessing of principled, capable, and locally accountable police. But in recent decades, local police have increasingly been brought under the control of Washington, through subsidies, regulations, and the occasional federal "civil ...
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