Quote:You realize police have the equipment they do now is because the equipment and mind set of the criminal has changed as well, right?


Would you feel better if the criminals, robbers, rapists, drug dealers have superior weapons and equipment than law enforcement? I hate to tell you, criminals do have a lot of the weapons police have. Also they get their hands on vests and other armor. So how then would an officer take them down? Ask politely? It was a while ago so I don't remember exactly what happened but wasn't there a couple guys in L.A. who robbed a bank or something and they walked away on foot with vests on and firing assault rifles?


I promise I'm not trying to single you out. lol.

So you are taking the extreme outlier events and then training the entire PD to handle all interactions with the community in that way? Based on outlier events we need to arm our entire PD as a military force?


That's a terrible policy.


How many interactions do you think a metro black and white patrolman comes across where a standard glock side arm is being over powered?


As I said, the SWAT unit is designed to handle those situations. 99.9% of every interaction between police and the public, including criminals, does not require SWAT-like force.


The mentality of policing must change. And if these cops don't like it, go join the army. Don't bring the army to our cities.

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