US Rethinks Giving Excess Military Gear to Police

[jtap]

"In police work there are times we have to become soldiers and control through force and fear," Downing said. "But we have to come back to being a public servant as quick as we can to establish that normality and that ethical stature with communities, because they're the ones who give us the authority to do our police work."

It's just a switch they can turn off and on, trust them to know when to use it.

 

[Anti Federalist]

It's just a switch they can turn off and on, trust them to know when to use it.

I do, I have see the error of my ways.

Police officers are our best protection.

 

[Slave Mentality]

They will only increase the militarization. The lid will eventually blow off the fed pumping Wall Streeters billions each month to keep the bubble from bursting, but we all know that it will bust. Don't we? Asset stripping must be hitting its plateau.

They are scared shitless of what the masses will do when it does and they should be.