Overkill

Radley Balko has a new paper on the overuse of SWAT teams and paramilitary police tactics in the drug war. It's called Overkill. To get an idea of how serious this problem has become, Balko also put together an interactive map showing the location of the following occurrences since 1985:

- Death of an innocent
- Raid on an innocent suspect
- Death or injury of a police officer
- Death of a nonviolent offender
- Unnecessary raids on doctors and sick people
- Other examples of paramilitary police excess

This has been compiled through news stories, so it's important to remember that this likely isn't even the complete list of actual incidents.