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Is there any data about partisanship inside US police departments or armed forces?
Is there any open data about the extent of partisan division among the police or armed forces in the United States?
If such data does not exist, why might that be? For example, is there some law which ...
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What happens to rank-and-file law-enforcement after major regime change [closed]
The question is inspired by the current situation in Myanmar, but since at the time of writing what will happen remains to be seen and obviously people on here can't predict the future, but surely ...
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Is there a "unified command" over all the defense forces in Washington D.C.?
A Unified Combatant Command is a task organized command structure used to coordinate forces around one objective. Examples include CENTCOM (https://www.centcom.mil/), which coordinates the armed ...
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Do people in countries besides the US react negatively to "militarized police"?
A 2018 PNAS study concludes that
militarized “special weapons and tactics” (SWAT) teams are more often deployed in communities of color, and—contrary to claims by police administrators—provide no ...
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would making the Police a branch of the Military meet the demand of abolishing the police? [closed]
during a conversation with my family yesterday, an idea came to me of merging the Police and military as a potential solution to the demand of abolishing the police, but at the same time retaining a ...
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Why might the military be more useful in controlling the masses than the police?
In reading Dictators and Dictatorship: Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders, I came across this paragraph :
the Cold War period was particularly amenable to military dictatorship “...
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What is the “appropriate” civilian response to police abusing their power? [closed]
Police are tear-gassing civilians during a pandemic that exasperates respiratory conditions while there is a shortage of ventilators and hospital beds.
How/why is this allowed?
What is the “...
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What is the difference between the Guardia Civil and the Policía Nacional in Spain?
It seems that in Spain there are two separate police forces under the authority of Madrid: the Guardia Civil and the Policía Nacional. Why is that? And what is the difference between the two?
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How did the FBI decide antifa were anarchists?
US security services DHS and FBI have studied the "antifa" movement and described its members as anarchists and terrorists. Honestly, I was not aware of any antifa terror attacks, nor any connection ...
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What is the difference between the National Guard and the MVD Internal Troops?
Recently, Putin signed the law that creates the National Guard of Russia (Росгвардия), seemingly replacing the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD, МВД).
What is the difference ...
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Without government, wouldn't warlords take over? [closed]
In an Anarcho-capitalist society, where there is no government, wouldn't warlords of competing factions take over?
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