[FatherofFive]

Images of police wielding military-style guns and armor have alarmed many Americans following violence that was triggered by the fatal shooting of an African-American teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer in Ferguson.

Images of heavily armed drug gangs alarm me much more. Barney Fife cannot take on M 13

[christx30]

Deputy Fife is not trained on the military equipment and does not have the military discipline to handle it. And the military equipment should not be used by civilian law enforcement on civilians. And history has shown us that once a local cop gets a new toy, he loves using it.
And what are the odds that anyone from MS-13 is going to show up to cause trouble in Boise?