Does a community with fewer than 100,000 people need tanks and grenade launchers? That's the question being debated in cities and towns across California as protests in Ferguson, Missouri cast a spotlight on the increasing militarization of local police. Some agencies are reconsidering that militarization as they look to improve their image and relations with communities.
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