Writing at Huffington Post, Radley Balko has a terrific piece on an issue that almost no politician dares to mention — the increasing militarization of law enforcement. With regularity, police now resort to heavily armed raids over drug and other purported offenses and quite a few innocent people have been killed and injured.

This has been steadily increasing for years under Democrats and Republicans. Evidently no politicians are willing to risk the charge of being “soft on crime” to say that this trend must be stopped.