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somewhere along the line...we seemed to accept the propostition that the police would act theatrically...to impose not just the physical enactment of order...but also the pyschological projection of it.
The swat team, the militarized tactics, the helicopters sweeping in from the sky, and the urban combat motif...all contribute to the point where our relationship with the police is that of a civilian population to a occupying army.
somehow, i feel a great nostaligia for the neighborhood beat cop who walked the streets, and knew the people on a basis other than having slammed their faces into the pavement.
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