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US funding for global police forces up nearly 2,000% over past 20 years | TIME.com
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The last time the Government Accountability Office added up how much the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies were spending building police forces around the world was in 1990. The U.S. government spent $180 million that year. In a new report out today, that total has jumped to $3.5 billion, a nearly 2,000% hike.