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1. If you think gangs in police are bad, wait until you find out about gangs in the military 2. You probably almost certainly do not want martial law. 3. The

• carlosjobim 4y ago
  You can have military police without martial law. You can split investigative units from the enforcing/order keeping battalions, the military does not need to be involved in investigative work. Most lawyers could be suited for investigative police work. Gangs would have a hard time forming in battalions mixed by people from all over the country.
  • vorpalhex 4y ago
    Most military gangs form on aircraft carriers. Lots of people + difficult day to day + natural divisions (everything is shift work, work is isolated to different areas). In any kind of deployment you will tend to see the same issues. MPs have jurisdictional limits. Their jurisdiction can only be expanded to broad civilians under martial law conditions (there are some weird exceptions here like posse comitatus but those remain exceptional). Nor do you want MPs broadly enforcing the law. Handcuffing someone to a radiator for a half day because they mouthed off is not aligned with a civilian led culture.