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# Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces 

July 2013 • Published By PublicAffairs 

By [Radley Balko](https://www.cato.org/people/radley-balko) 

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##### About the Author 

Radley Balko is a opinion blogger at the *Washington Post*, where he writes the popular blog on civil liberties and the criminal justice system, *The Watch*. Balko’s work on paramilitary raids and the overuse of SWAT teams was featured in the *New York Times*, has been praised by outlets ranging from *Human Events* to the *Daily Kos*, and was cited by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in his dissent in the case *Hudson v. Michigan*.