LOL gradstudent, apparently you’ve been under rock.

The NYC police chief was bragging to the media about having helicopters armed with 50 cal machine guns.

University police departments are posing for the cameras before pepper spraying the Occupy protest sit in.

New Mexico mowed down a young war vet after busting down his door, six officers put 80 bullets in him in under a minute.

Fullerton police officers allegedly (pay no attention to the video) beat a homeless schizophrentic to death while he cried out please stop I’m not resisting and bus riders watched in horror. They then allegedly tried to confiscate the phones with cameras.

Yep, just a minor expansion of their efforts, nothing to worry about.