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But where's the fun in that? Gotta get to use all that weaponry after all.
by stanski 7y ago
But where's the fun in that? Gotta get to use all that weaponry after all.
- synlatexc 7y agoExactly. Recall an NYT article[1] on the topic. It describes how police chiefs will make a spectacle out of their newly purchased tanks or whatever, even bringing them to schools for kids to check out. Best quote was from a police chief who hadn't been swept up in the mania for military gear and vehicles: “I go to schools,” he said. “But I bring ‘Green Eggs and Ham.’” [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-poli...