[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy."

I think that line above says it all. Far too many police forces are acting as armies of occupation rather than keepers of the peace.

[PaxMacian]

" Far too many police forces are acting as armies of occupation rather than keepers of the peace."

In fact, they are acting as terrorists! The lack of results in a generations long civil war relegates all action as significant only for the terror that it inflicts upon the citizenry in effort to control their appetites. (Not a Constitutionally mandated federal power!)

[af_vet_rr]

Far too many police forces are acting as armies of occupation rather than keepers of the peace.

I don't know about that, but they sure as hell dress and equip like it.