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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 19 Jun 2020

      Mark Hoofnagle Retweeted The Trace

      This is an underappreciated point. Police violence is worse where gun violence is worse. Our abject failure to prevent and prosecute traffickers results in higher homicide rates - and more police violence. This is how structural racism works. Our laws fail the most vulnerable.https://twitter.com/teamtrace/status/1274009254010241025 …

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      The TraceVerified account @teamtrace
      "Widespread gun ownership makes it all but inevitable that the U.S. has more armed police than similarly rich countries, more panicky officers, more adversarial police encounters, more officer shootings, and more civilian killings." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/overlooked-role-guns-police-reform-debate/613258/ …
      2 replies 9 retweets 25 likes
    2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 19 Jun 2020
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle

      Indeed. I can kind of understand how police become paranoid that any interaction with the public (even a routine traffic stop) can result in them getting shot because it can. The reason is that anyone police encounter could well be armed.

      3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    3. Dan‏ @dapperdan247 19 Jun 2020
      Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle

      Seems like rise of militaristic police coincided with rise of militarized military cosplay public. Simply can't remember any time in my life when heavily armed civilians tromped around capitol buildings as if it were "normal".

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    4. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 19 Jun 2020
      Replying to @dapperdan247 @gorskon

      It was fed by excess spending as Reagan ramped up the coldwar military budgets. Equipment surpluses were unloaded onto civilian law enforcement and justified with fighting “gang violence” - racist dogwhistle that has always been a tiny minority of gun deaths.

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 19 Jun 2020
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @dapperdan247

      It started even before that. SWAT started in the 1960s as a response to riots and proliferated in the 1970s. It wasn't just SWAT, either. In Detroit, we had STRESS, a decoy unit that drove Detroit to be #1 in police shooting civilians in the early 1970s.https://www.michiganradio.org/post/documentary-looks-back-violent-history-detroit-police-s-stress-units …

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        1. Dan‏ @dapperdan247 19 Jun 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle

          To be sure violent and militaristic police are not a recent phenomenon, particularly so in regards to racist law enforcement. It seems to thrive most with public frightened into accepting "getting tough on crime" propaganda with zero concern of devastating consequences.

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