Garbage.
Look how the police dressed in 1965, 75,85,95, 2005 and now.
I liked them a lot better in the earlier decades.
There is a trend to a more massive firepower approach because our levels of violence and terror are magnifying.
Garbage. That is the kind of crap-justification that has given every fedgov agency its own SWAT team. Less SWAT. More armed citizenry.
You don't think the violence levels directed against law enforcement personnel has gotten worse over time?