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It is interesting that the "mainstream media" is reporting on "the militarization of the police" openly.
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That's funny ..... it wasn't too many years ago I was lumped in with "militia member nuts/lunatic fringe" when I complained that the police in many places in this country, with the stated mission to "serve and protect" the public were dressing and arming themselves like mechanized infantrymen ..... who generally have a completely different mission ...... IIRC, that was something about "closing with and killig or capturing the enemy, by fire and manuever" ...... If a police force ever begins to see the public as the enemy, then they have lost the battle already ...... adopting the trappings of the soldier makes it easier to lose sight of their purpose for being Policemen ......
Soldiers are in the business of killing people and breaking stuff. Policemen are not.