<p><a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/about/academic-divisions-and-departments/center-for-global-affairs.html">Center for Global Affairs</a> Adjunct Assistant Professor Michael Shank penned an op-ed piece for <i>The Guardian</i> alongside senior member of the House Judiciary Committee Representative Hank Johnson in which the authors weigh the repercussions of the current administration's elevated use of militarized policing throughout US cities.</p>
Our main streets don’t have to look like warzones. But it’s up to Congress to intervene and de-escalate this increasingly combustible environment. It’s Congress that created this giveaway program, and it’s Congress that can take power back."
<p>The piece explores how Congress has the ability to cap not only the military arsenal currently employed in policing some US cities, but also to prevent further trafficking of existing weapons appropriated by local law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/06/us-military-grade-weapons-drones-congress">READ FULL ARTICLE</a></b></p>