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My next door neighbor is a cop. Police work is a third career for him, he has some perspective having been a "civilian" for most of his life, and he is exactly the kind of cop I wish they all were. He tends to look at situations from a common-sense perspective. He is not on the SWAT team.

The SWAT guys, at least to me, seem to be the ones that are either ex-military, or military wannabees. Either way, they want to mold the police to be like the military. They want military-style equipment, and they want to use it.

I don't think that treating the public like the "enemy" is good policy of a police department.