 the militarization federalization of local police forces  police departments and sheriff rsquo s offices around the country every day look less like peace officers and more like warfighters using threats of terrorism as a pretext police are buying or receiving in free grants tools developed for the armed forces and using them to carry out police raids or even to serve a simple warrant is there something we don rsquo t know that the federal government knows and they aren rsquo t tell us about as to why all of these law enforcement agencies in the states need this level if armament for an article on how the federal government and the department of homeland security are transforming our police agencies click on the following link  http wwwthenewamericancom usnews item 17515localpoliceadoptmilitarytechnologyandtactics 20  the militarization federalization local police forces  