Kraska and Paulsen's ethnography of the Pleasantville SWAT team suggests a worrying blurring of the boundary between the police and military. However, this is more apparent than al, since many of the indicators of militarization turn out, on closer inspection, to be insubstantial and in crucial respects SWAT teams retain features consistent with the maintenance of non‐military methods of using force.
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