The lack of respect for police officers and their station, that's what. Due to a whole new crop of snot-nosed whelplings who wouldn't know true struggle if it bit them in their coddled asses.
Cops munitions couldn’t penetrate bank robbers plate armor, they had to commandeer rifles from local gun stores. After this police started carrying heavier firepower. There is amazing video and docs about this if you want to learn more.
"Militarized police" is a meaningless phrase. The job has always had the possibility of violence. Police simply opted for the most effective offensive and defensive arms and armor an individual can get. This is after decades of sticking to the costume of the circa Andy Griffith uniform.
Militarization talk is nonsense. Where's the PD's artillery, close air support, satellite intel, etc? Body armor, ARs, and cargo pants does not a military make.
The bucket holster and revolver had already been phased out, the NYPD moved to automatics in '94. They grandfathered officers who had previously purchased service revolvers and allowed them to continue carrying them, but by 2001 this image would have already been an unusual sight.
The lack of respect for police officers and their station, that's what. Due to a whole new crop of snot-nosed whelplings who wouldn't know true struggle if it bit them in their coddled asses.
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1997 north Hollywood shootout
Cops munitions couldn’t penetrate bank robbers plate armor, they had to commandeer rifles from local gun stores. After this police started carrying heavier firepower. There is amazing video and docs about this if you want to learn more.
1997
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I remember watching that on TV, live. INSANE. Michael Mann movie IRL.
Post 9/11 we militarized the police. Then when they used the shit we said “oh nooo you can’t use it against rioters” Ferguson.
Militarizations started in the 80s with the “war on drugs”
Which is a war on people and a total failure like our “war on poverty”
Old enough to see what you did there.......
"Militarized police" is a meaningless phrase. The job has always had the possibility of violence. Police simply opted for the most effective offensive and defensive arms and armor an individual can get. This is after decades of sticking to the costume of the circa Andy Griffith uniform.
Militarization talk is nonsense. Where's the PD's artillery, close air support, satellite intel, etc? Body armor, ARs, and cargo pants does not a military make.
The bucket holster and revolver had already been phased out, the NYPD moved to automatics in '94. They grandfathered officers who had previously purchased service revolvers and allowed them to continue carrying them, but by 2001 this image would have already been an unusual sight.
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