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How does "protect and serve" not include removing dangerous, violent criminals from society?. To do so you need efficient weaponry and tactics that differ from
by mixedCase 6y ago
How does "protect and serve" not include removing dangerous, violent criminals from society?. To do so you need efficient weaponry and tactics that differ from conventional warfare. Does every police officer need to be equipped with such firepower? No, but police forces around the world facing these threats tend to have an intermediate (or more) group for dealing with threats that fall between petty thievery and terrorist organizations/nation-state level actors.
- watwut 6y agoAre you taking about actual real need in cities or a fantasy? It sounds flippant, but other counties don't need such ammo. The murder clearance rates are low, corruption seem to be persistent problem and actual police work does not actually seem to involve attacking actual super armed gangs.
- mixedCase 6y agoOf course I'm talking about an actual real need in cities, it's bewildering to me someone can't even see it as obvious. What country do you live in where there's no need for SWAT-like teams or a straight-up Gendarmerie?
- watwut 6y agoSWAT-like teams are used rarely and they don't buy used arms from military. They are few in numbers. The issue with catching organized criminality is in investigation and dealing with corruption - including police corruption. The whole need to shoot out with them thing does not happen unless the local police is spectacularly bad.