“Monkey see, monkey do” is a partial explanation. Or, maybe, pistol envy. But there’s also something else at work here.
““Monkey see, monkey do” is a partial explanation. Or, maybe, pistol envy. But there’s also something else at work here.”
Budget justification, for the most part.
They lobby for the SWAT budget, and bury it deep in the request.
Then they have to justify the continued funding of it, year after year.
Obama said he wanted a civilian army as powerful as the actual Army.
The official army is getting downsized by 50-100K.
This unofficial army is 25K that we know of, possibly more. After all, they have a few hundred here, a few thousand there. When each department has an armed group, the actual total is harder to track and the massing less obvious.