What percentage of any jurisdiction’s police are militarized SWAT types. I’m guessing 5 to 10%. Most cops don’t go to work with M4s or HKs, dressed like storm troopers. So I don’t buy the militarized police. There’s been a member of my family on the NYPD continuously since 1951 and military is hardly how I would describe them. As far as this law, when you start shooting at the cops then you’ve put your whole family in the crosshairs, because there is one true thing about all cops. they leave home each day determined to do whatever it takes to get home at end of shift.
Ten years ago I would have agreed with you. Today, they’ve become a dog-shooting bs d of thugs that couldn’t card less when they off a grandmother instead of the drug dealer at the correct address they were too lazy or incompetent to verify.
How many cops are militarized? The same percentage that would Wang yo be on the SWAT teams; i.e. most of them. Even if I accept your 5% figure for SWAT teams, that doesn’t consider the wannabes on every force.
Young cops are largely thuggish and indistinguishable from gang member often. They are disrespectful of the public and people I wouldn’t want my daughters to marry. I’m not alone in this snd the growing public view is based on direct observation; camera phones make it possible to see lots of official criminal behavior. I’m sorry to say these things and worrier to believe them. They weren’t true ten years ago and certainly not true twenty years ago.