A problem with having your police look like a miltary occupation force is that people who oppose the police (for political and other reasons) will treat them li

A problem with having your police look like a miltary occupation force is that people who oppose the police (for political and other reasons) will treat them like that. That and it separates them from the community they are supposed to serve, that's why I hate it when I see police call members of the public civilians, police are civilians. Robert Peel understood this nearly 200 years ago.