| At no other time in police history has the study of the intersection of police culture and police technology been more necessary. An enormous for-profit complex of police technology vendors, an influx of federal dollars from the Department of Justice, and the involvement of the Department of Defense and their associated for-profit industries, have created conditions that overshadow what happened in the days of LEAA. This paper examines images associated with the for-profit industry which promotes and supplies an array of technological products used by police paramilitary units (SWAT teams). We discuss four themes including, for example, the blurring distinction between "police" and "military" that surfaced in this analysis |
Updated 05/20/2006