This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

The relationship between militarism and domestic policing is subtle but important.

In their new book, Tyranny comes home.

Chris Coyne and Abigail Hall detail the shift in policing in America in a more

militaristic direction and explain both its causes and consequences.

There's an Instagram account that I follow.

It is Grateful Legos with 1L,

and basically a band I like is on tour throughout the United States right now and they are performing at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and there's an armed guard just standing there in camo with a very scary looking

semi-automatic perhaps fully automatic a semi-automatic weapon.

And the guy says, I've been going to this venue since 1988

and I've never witnessed armed guards, WTF.

And this is an experience that I've seen replicated, both at venues in the in the private sector.

And you know, when I go to a ballpark now, there are metal detectors at almost every

ballpark and I continue to say that if sports riders ever had to go through

them they wouldn't be there because somebody would raise to think about it.

But it seems, you know, to say nothing of airports and the way that Americans tend to be treated

when it comes to doing things that are 20 years ago completely and totally normal.

So when it comes to how we think about the police, is it your contention that that has just been fundamentally

changed or is, do people, are people really demanding this sort of thing?

I'd say that the function of policing and the way that

police conduct their job has fundamentally changed. I think people have

particularly started noticing it probably from the 1980s.

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