The militarization of the police force here in the USA goes back about 25 or 30 years.
There's a little known trade that took place after desert storm. A lot of the military vehicles and cache of weapons ended up in local police force hands all over the nation. They then used this escalation, which they caused in neighborhoods, to elicit more funding for the same type of gear
In keeping up with the Joneses, what do you think every local police force nationwide did then?
The militarization of the police force here in the USA goes back about 25 or 30 years.
There's a little known trade that took place after desert storm. A lot of the military vehicles and cache of weapons ended up in local police force hands all over the nation. They then used this escalation, which they caused in neighborhoods, to elicit more funding for the same type of gear
In keeping up with the Joneses, what do you think every local police force nationwide did then?
Yep. We used to have overweight/dad bod type cops with a 6 shot revolver, which is perfectly fine for 95% of police precincts.
Now we have steroids up swat style police with access to armored personnel carriers all over the place, including small and mid sized towns.