Exactly. 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 brin

Exactly. 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...