“we have some people here on FR who do not like the militarization of the police. It’s necessary.”
Sorry to burst your bubble BunnySlippers, but more whites (numerically) distrust the police than blacks.
I recently had a conversation with fireman at our local block party. I said to the oldest: “you guys must be the only public servants that don’t carry guns”.
He responded; “They tried to get us to, but we said no...” “We get along well with the people and we want to keep it that way”.
When I was growing up in the fifties and sixties, it was the same with police. Now it’s changed...
We must be around the same age.
When we were kids our parents told us that if we are ever lost, or out somewhere and were in some kind of trouble, to find a policeman, and they would make sure you got home okay. It really used to be that way. God, how I miss the America of those days, when life was so much simpler, and good was good and evil was evil, and the lines did not merge.