e . Police, who use military style policing, can be seen saturated in hot spots. Hot spots are specific locations, which are highly targeted by police. These hot spots are often in urban areas, moreover, in communities with people of color. Police rely on their computerized data to identify these hot spots. Once the hot spots are identified, heavy police presence is deployed, war gear, and tactics are employed. It is war on chosen targeted communities.

The Violent Crime Suppression Unit (VCSU) is a special unit in the city of Fresno, California. VCSU is known to be super-militarized and engage is aggressive policing. Accordingly, VCSU receives the title for “the most extreme example of America’s more than 30,000 paramilitary Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams” . For these units, policing is meant to be treated like a battleground. In this never-ending battle, the enemy is people of color, the areas of target are their homes and communities, and the mission is social control by means of mass incarceration.

Paramilitary style policing, a form of everyday policing, which results in massive incarceration in order to maintain a racial case. A typical VCSU operation could be described as the following:

A youth reportedly brandished a gun (not a crime unless a victim is being threatened) and has sped off to his mother’s house. The radios crackle: “1010 deploy units in the alley.” The house is surrounded by the VCSU. From behind cars, officers train AR-15s, MP-5s, and the larger MP-54’s on the front door and in the windows. Overhead, a chopper beats the air, flooding the house with light and scanning the area with infrared (117).

Evidently, paramilitary style policing has no boundaries. The special police units, which use this style of policing are considered to be the epimerization of militarization of policing. This is made possible with the