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The one thing a governmental agency (like police) do best is to grow themselves.
Couple that with the fact (yes, fact) many, if not most, people who go into police work do so with the motivation of having power.
Police like gadgets. Any new item of equipment is something they "must" have to allow them to do their work better.
It is hard for those who control the budget to turn down requests for equipment that is claimed will make the public more secure.
This concept is on a run-away roll. We have gone from the friendly beat cop with a .38 spl. revolver and a stick to a fully armored leviathan with machine guns.
Their mission has gone from protecting the people to enhancing their power for purposes of controlling the people. We are now almost living in a bad scenario of a science fiction movie.
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