Armor Vehicles are excellent protection if all you’re going to do is sit in them.
Police MUST get out of the vehicles to serve warrants and make arrest or confront perps.
So…….totalitarian local governements getting their hands on Armor Vehicles are all for show. It also makes the nutcases on any given force feel cool.
Simple wait for them to exit the vehicle and the local police or Feds are back to being useless cowards.
Uvalde cops had cool stuff too.
I worked a patrol beat in South-Central Los Angeles for 16 years.
I never needed an up-armored vehicle of any kind, (unless a Crown Vic counts) and we drove our patrol cars to wherever we needed to serve a warrant.
So, one might wonder just what the various Federal agencies think they need armor for.