claim: "the u.s. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
author: represent.us
evidence_1: aug 19, 2014 ... 9, ferguson, missouri, police officer darren wilson fatally shot ... record, the  excessively militarized state of law enforcement in the u.s. has also ... stop  voting for defense industry-backed lawmakers who voted to continue the 1033  program. ... received 73 percent more money from the defense industry than ...
evidence_2: aug 19, 2014 ... police officers in ferguson, missouri arrested 31 people during ... and it hasn't  stopped there. ... chunk of campaign donations from the defense industry —  $25,000 in clay's ... the representatives who voted against the amendment  receive, on average, 73 percent more money from defense contractors than ...
evidence_3: jul 23, 2015 ... it finds that a campaign system dominated by a narrow set of donors who are ...  more than 90 percent of $200+ federal contributions in the 2012 .... from racist “ stop and frisk” style policing,6 with the increasing militarization of ..... more money  from the defense industry than representatives voting to defund it.
evidence_4: aug 15, 2014 ... rep. hank johnson is pushing the legislation amid the situation in ... there is a  legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there ... more money from the  defense industry than representatives voting to ... in all, the average lawmaker  voting against the bill received more than $50,000 in campaign ...
evidence_5: the result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly  ... that same afternoon, september 17, the house of representatives voted after  ... at the end of world war ii, nearly 10 percent of the entire u.s. population was  .... is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles ...