Those agencies tend to pre-purchase ammo years in advance, and the "militarization" of police is mostly from agencies receiving surplus equipment from the DoD f

Those agencies tend to pre-purchase ammo years in advance, and the "militarization" of police is mostly from agencies receiving surplus equipment from the DoD for pennies on the dollar. Lord knows civilian cops don't have the same level of discipline - if I pulled one-tenth of that sort of abuse while I was an enlisted MP, I'd be rotting in a cell in Fort Leavenworth instead of writing this post. All that being said, I wouldn't be surprised if certain elites have noticed that public sentiment is resembling France in the 1790s. This whole surveillance apparatus is here to intercept the next Robespierre, national security be damned.