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Originally Posted by lio45
That's pretty obviously a direct consequence of their sacred Second Amendment. Police work in a First World Democracy Where The Guy You're About to Deal With Is Probably Armed vs Police Work in a First World Democracy Where Guns Are Illegal and Very Rare = that's a major difference in how you have to approach the very job.
It's extremely logical to an outside observer (say, a rational extraterrestrial being who just popped up on our planet) that if everyone in a given society has easy access to guns (all other factors being equal), it will result in more militarized cops.
Valid in all contexts too. For example, if you group is tasked with keeping law and order in a group of X unarmed medieval serfs, you can be equipped with clubs and it'll be fine; now if it's X medieval knights you have to police, and they all have swords, you likely need bigger swords, and shields, and armor.
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The setup where you have the policy in a line (with the goal of holding the line) all equipped with riot gear is fairly indicative of what the outcome will be. Then when the curfew comes, they have a reason to clear the street by moving forward.
If the police were in their normal gear and were able to just walk among the crowds the dynamics would be very different. So it is safe for them to do that?
Some of the news reports out of the US are talking about U-haul trucks parted outside of stores that are to be broken into for taking the goods away. Stashes of bricks pre-positioned for use in the protest. Cars prep-positioned with combustibles. There is something odd about all of this. Is there some organised crime group using the protest as a cover? I don't know.
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