October 28, 2010 1:51PM # Embed the Raidmap By [David Rittgers](https://www.cato.org/people/david-rittgers) --- SHARE Cato Fellow [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) highlighted the trend toward heavy-handed police practices in *[Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476)*. Radley continues to chronicle police abuses at *[The Agitator](http://www.theagitator.com/)* and *[Reason](http://reason.com/)*. Recent examples of police excesses include the [unnecessary death](http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/24/lessons-from-the-death-of-aiya) of seven-year old Aiyana Jones in Detroit and this [raid on an innocent elderly couple in Chicago](http://www.theagitator.com/2010/10/08/another-isolated-incident-33/) (immigrants who fled the Soviet Union *because of oppression*). One of the fruits of Radley’s research was the [Raidmap](https://www.cato.org/raidmap/), a Google map application that allows you to see the scope of this epidemic of “isolated incidents.” You can also sort botched raids by category: death of an innocent, raid on an innocent suspect, death or injury of an officer, death of a nonviolent offender, unnecessary raids on doctors and sick people, and other examples of paramilitary police excess. [View Original Map and Database](https://www.cato.org/raidmap) Now you can embed the Raidmap on your website or blog as seen below. The code is on the [Raidmap page](https://www.cato.org/raidmap/). Pass it on. ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).