When police officers are coming at you dressed for battle with military grade weaponry they see it as being ready for anything, but what the people see is a threat and it just escalates the outcome of the situation. It is highly unnecessary for small town police departments to acquire military weapons. Especially when they aren't required to have any training on how to use it, but are expected to use it within one year. Since they're expected to use it in such a small amount of time and our country has no issues that call for that level of weapons, then the police are just going to use this equipment in obscene ways.
This equipment and uniforms from the military could also put police into a different state of mind. police of most towns don't see much war like activity if any, but when they have the means to dress the part of a soldier they might actually act like they're going into battle. This will just make problems worse when they begin to bring these big guns to small disturbances. The most common example is what happened in Ferguson, MO. When a couple small riots began, the police brought out guns, heavy duty uniforms, guns, even tanks, and what did that do? The whole town became a war zone and all of the people turned against the police because they felt so threatened.
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