In Reason magazine, Radley Balko continues his coverage of a botched SWAT raid in a small town in Maryland.
The libertarian Reason often understands itself as somehow opposed to the religious intellectual analysis that First Things does, but the rise of no-knock raids and paramilitary police forces in the United States is frightening, and Balko deserves real praise for his relentless documentation of the trend.
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