Similarities Between Military and Policing Models
Despite the aforementioned debates on the efficacy of both counterterrorism models, there is also a school of thought that recognises them as interdependent, rather than entirely separate, approaches. Scholars, such as Chesney and Goldsmith, recognise a growing trend in the convergence of the two models. 107 They identify the failures of both models being mitigated through a merging that is taking place between the military and policing approaches. Evidence of this can be found in the increasing tendency of the militarisation of police forces around the world. Police departments throughout the USA, for example, have seen a shift toward the employment of more militaristic tactics and equipment. 108 This has shown a blurring of the distinctions between the traditional roles of the policing and the military in counterterrorism. Other scholars within this school of thought have gone further than Chesney and Goldsmith in declaring the linkage between the two models. Laura Donohue has in a sense rejected this notion. Instead, Donohue advances the view that both approaches to counterterrorism are based upon the same principles and values; namely that the war model is simply a
107 Robert Chesney and Jack Goldsmith, 'Terrorism and the Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention Models', Stanford Law Review , iv, 60 (2008), 1079–1133. 108 Arthur Rizer and Joseph Hartman, How the War on Terror Has Militarized the Police (The Atlantic, 2011), <http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/how-the-war- on-terror-has-militarized-the-police/248047/> [accessed 14 December 2016].
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