Former NYPD Chief Bernard Kerik Discusses Ferguson and Police Militarization

“Any time a police
department can get [military]
equipment for the department, they’re going to try and do that,”
says Bernard
Kerik, the former New York Police Department
Commissioner and one-time nominee to be secretary of Homeland
Security.

He recently sat down with Reason
TV‘s Nick Gillespie to discuss the Michael Brown
shooting in Ferguson, the militarization of police, the effect of
the drug war on law enforcement, and what it’s like to be
prosecuted in today’s America.

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