Detroit cop violence and STRESS

Two of us chatted yesterday about the chapter on STRESS -- the murderous police unit in Detroit that was a symptom of the decline and fall of that city -- while meanwhile coincidentally on the very same day a news report about a Detroit police assault on an innocent family and murder of a little girl was published as part of a larger picture today.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.   See:

Why Do the Police Have Tanks? The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force

http://www.alternet.org/story/151528/why_do_the_police_have_tanks_the_strange_and_dangerous_militarization_of_the_us_police_force?akid=7211.304388.Sw6NRd&rd=1&t=2