Categories Burlington Iowa News West Burlington Cooke: Hypermilitarized police departments are more dangerous than whatever they fight. Post author By Falcon Post date June 28, 2014 Click here: Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly odd that at the exact moment when violent crime hit a 50-year low, the nation’s police departments began to gear up as if the country were expecting invasion — and, on occasion, to behave as if one were underway. ← Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is Rising Everywhere: “This Won’t End Pretty” → Falcons Fall to Washington, 9-6