Excerpts from Radley Balko's recently released Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces:

“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control - SWAT teams raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking? Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise

Militarized police overreach: “Oh, God, I thought they were going to shoot me next” - Local law enforcement's often using SWAT teams to do regular police work. The results are frightening -- and deadly