re: #284 Dark_Falcon

Police departments are getting MRAPs because those have already been built and thus offer low acquisition costs for a proven design. The M113 I’ll agree is over the top, but I see that less as militarism and more as an agency which overindulged its gear geeks. Doing that at taxpayer expense isn’t cool.

The M2HB may be non-problematic, but that depends on where it is within the US. Along the Mexican border, I’m actually supportive of a major agency having an MG or two to be used for counter-ambush in case things with one of the cartels get really nasty.

Definitely did not like the quasi-militarization of the police that seemed to be going on in during the 2 Bush admins, after 9/11. And the treatment of some of the Occupy people (think what you will about their politics) in retrospect reminds me of what people in Ukraine are going through.

If the cops would concentrate on real crime and not hassling people who have done nothing wrong, it would easier for them to get more respect.