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To: fwdude
Could someone please define “militarization” for me, concretely?

I can...Police wearing military combat uniforms routinely in almost every agency all over America now, police agencies given hundreds of military combat vehicles by your government, the use of drones, helicopters, using heavily armed combat units to serve routine warrants, shooting unarmed people and their pets, similar to what happens in brutal war zones and on and on...

Ya been in an isolated cave for the past several decades?

Do you have any idea why there is now growing escalating widespread distrust for law enforcement/government?

??

40 posted on 08/14/2014 3:40:08 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Sorry, but I have never seen police in military combat gear in the general public, nor have I seen police routinely driving military-style vehicles around town - they are usually driving Crown Vic’s and other very pedestrian models.

Of course,you could be thinking about SWAT teams, which most medium to large departments have. But those are very small, specialized units rarely deployed, but have been around for many decades.

Where have YOU been?


68 posted on 08/14/2014 7:37:20 PM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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