Assertion: police department | /r/CapableOf | become militarized
Facets:
value: in the early 20th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: According to Julian Go of Boston University, police departments in the United States became increasingly militarized in the early 20th century as they "borrowed tactics, techniques, and organizational templates from America's imperial-military regime that had been developed to conquer and rule foreign populations.