September 2, 2008 1:03PM 

# Militarized Policing 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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Glenn Greenwald has a good [roundup ](http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/01/protests/index.html)of militarized police actions in St Paul.

Radley Balko looks at police actions in [Denver](http://www.theagitator.com/2008/08/30/free-speech-in-america/).

For related Cato work on this disturbing trend, go [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1489) and [here](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6476). We’ll be hosting a forum on no-knock police raids here at Cato [next week](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5268).

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