There seems to be an ominous trend where it appears that our military is becoming a police force and our domestic police forces are becoming a military.
Given the tactics apparently used by the cops when searching Watertown, they aren’t very good at the military stuff.
Their massive response was only justified by the possibility, which did exist, that they would stumble on a large group of armed and trained terrorists.
If they had, using the tactics I saw on TV, they would have taken massive casualties.
Soldiers make lousy cops, and cops make lousy soldiers. In all likelihood giving cops paramilitary training makes them lousy at both roles.