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Originally Posted by widebody911
I think we're seeing a cycle of escalation.
* Police start buying bigger, badder spoons "because that's what the bad guys have."
* They break them out at every opportunity, "to keep their skills sharp" and "you never know what will happen." "If we don't use 'em, we lose 'em"
* The next fiscal year they say "Hey, we conducted umpteen raids last year, so we should upgrade our spoons again."
* Lather, rinse, repeat.
Nobody has the balls to say "no" to the cops, and the militarization continues.
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It's more like, Nobody has the balls to say "no" to the
lawyers directing the cops. That is, it is control freak lawyers all the way to the top. ...no 'common sense' people in that chain, other than, as some have hoped, the cops themselves.
So +1 to URY914
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Don't the SWAT guys at anytime just say, "WTF are we doing this for?".
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