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> Or departments with more military gear are in more risky areas where the use of force is more likely. Maybe. I know anecdotally where I live has very little
by matwood 6y ago
> Or departments with more military gear are in more risky areas where the use of force is more likely.
Maybe. I know anecdotally where I live has very little violent crime, and the police department is fully militarized with mraps and the like.
- adwww 6y agoPlural? Like one could make sense, in a siege type situation or bank robbery in progress perhaps. The sort of event that might happen once a decade or so maybe. But how many sieges or bank robberies are they expecting to need multiple of these?!
- malandrew 6y agoBank robberies used to be more common, but inflation basically took care of that https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/economists-demonstrate-exactly-why-bank-robbery-is-a-bad-idea/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/economists-demonstra...
- ArnoVW 6y agoThanks for the interesting link. Ars at its best. Though my interpretation of the article is more that the risk / reward ratio simply has become too poor, nothing to do with inflation. I suppose it is easier to rob a 150k watch from an unprotected person on the street, of hold up a Chinese tourist (who often have their holiday money in cash), if you're into that sort of thing.
- matwood 6y agoMy city only has 1. I was mistaken because I saw a big police show and tell at an abandoned parking lot late last year, and saw multiples. The city next door has 2, and all the adjacent cities also have their own. Keep in mind these these cities are all basically considered the same large city. It's not like they separated by 100s of miles or anything.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoBored police departments spend their money on toys. Busy police departments spend their money hiring more cops so that they aren't so over worked.