Far too few Americans recognise danger when we see it.
The fiasco in Ferguson shows why you don't give military equipment to cops!
First, let's see what they got. Here's a representative sample from Paul Szoldra, who served in Afghanistan himself:
In photos taken on Monday, we are shown a heavily armed SWAT team. They have short-barreled 5.56-mm rifles based on the military M4 carbine, with scopes that can accurately hit a target out to 500 meters. On their side they carry pistols. On their front, over their body armor, they carry at least four to six extra magazines, loaded with 30 rounds each.
Their uniform would be mistaken for a soldier's if it weren't for their "Police" patches. They wear green tops, and pants fashioned after the U.S. Marine Corps MARPAT camouflage pattern. And they stand in front of a massive uparmored truck called a Bearcat, similar in look to a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or as the troops who rode in them call it, the MRAP. [Business Insider]
https://theweek.com/article/index/2...-why-you-dont-give-military-equipment-to-cops