For our 400th episode, Radley Balko returns to the show to discuss how the distinction between cop and soldier has been blurred in the last 40 years.Radley Balko argues that over the last several decades, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as an other—an enemy.
