[Yogafist]

Yeah, that means absolutely nothing. The internet has made national, and international news local. A cop in Philly does something wrong, then a cop in Atlanta does something wrong, and finally a cop in Phoenix does something wrong, and Free Republic goes wild about the the chronic misbehavior of cops. All the while forgetting there are around 800,000 cops in the U.S. I really don’t care if you can pull up a photo of cops responding to some incident in another part of the country, how many times have you seen your local police use that type of equipment?

[JRandomFreeper]

Are you denying that there is a transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment from the military to local PDs?

/johnny

[kiryandil]

And speaking of naiveté:

Let's see - they rolled an MRAP & 2 Bearcats to chase a guy down a two-track 70 miles away from me, which is CLOSE, where I'm at.

They rolled a Commander 6x6x6 to intimidate a PTSD veteran in my town this spring. They were in training with their toy 500 miles away, but hey! - it's on YOUR dime, peasant!