> This is indeed a selling point of militarizing cops but the justification doesn't jibe well with generations of decreasing police death rates. Your argument

> This is indeed a selling point of militarizing cops but the justification doesn't jibe well with generations of decreasing police death rates. Your argument still makes no sense. Law enforcement is just like any other job—the death rate goes down over time as more and more safety measures are adopted. They went down, in part, because of the safety measures. > It's kind of hard to draw a parallel between widely disparate events - some so historical that people involved in them have died of old age - and the much more recent amping up of police aggression. More recent? Most of the SWAT stuff dates back to the 1980’s and 1990’s at the very latest, the “War on Drugs” era. And I’d be sympathetic to the argument that these measures are excessive when it comes to drug trafficking, but this is a domestic terrorism case.