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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
so the contention is that in the event of a major armed assault by terrorists in the US, our police will be ineffective and we must use military forces?
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For sufficiently major definitions of major, yes? The police are not a military, and training the police in military tactics results in them treating parts of the country like occupied territory. (Note that the police are already militarized to a decent extent -- isn't the 'special' part of SWAT basically 'military'?)