This is often a class-based issue, where poor, minority communities suffer from problems that disqualify them from serving as police officers — credit issues, criminal records, etc. Relatively speaking, you need a squeaky clean record to join the police force. The police tend to be either originally from elsewhere, or…

Tasers (and pepper spray and a variety of other weapons) were developed as a "less lethal" alternative to lethal force. Law enforcement agencies, many of them, adopted Tasers in the wake of a "tragic incident" in their communities. Police officers (and their trainers) will tell you that if your life is at stake a…

Probably people that remember that free speech allows the goods to openly beat up the bads.

Censorship is never a good thing because it only let those ideas fester in the dark ,reappear in a very pernicious way, reach an audience that might have dismissed it may those writings were out in the open. Let alone that It is not because someone doesnt say It that He/She doesnt think it. Personnaly I do it BBC…

Bostonian here. Life long Red Sox fan. Remember the name Victoria Snelgrove? I do. She was a total stranger, and I'll carry it until I die. Boston PD fatally shot her in the brain with a pepper spray ball fired through her eye. A ball only fired because the PD had recently acquired crowd-control paintball guns,…

Because you have common sense ?

I'm gonna be "that guy." This is exactly the reason that the second amendment was ratified. It was meant to protect the citizens from tyranny, and right now, in Ferguson, the police have eliminated Constitutional Amendments 1-6. If that isn't something to be afraid of, I'm not sure what is.

a mob is a little different than a group of protesters. Does this look like a group of protesters to you?

Are you ignoring the fact that crime has become more organized and violent, also? You bring up the tower shooting, and yes, that was an impetus. Also the infamous North Hollywood shootout comes to mind. How else do you respond to crimes such as these becoming more common than by better arming police? Would you prefer…

THAT is the truth. That and people are totally fine throwing rocks and yelping from afar, but the second something happens to you, the story changes. Just interesting to watch and listen.

Shooting in urban areas maybe? I'm guessing. May make sense so the officers could use suppressors then not wear hearing protection, so they'd be more likely to hear ambient noise/people talking/etc.

Any that want them I would imagine. They don't have to fill out the forms like us regular citizens.

What ,an angry mob can't gather in the street chanting kill the police, breaking into businesses, and setting cars and buildings on fire anymore without the Police showing up!? What is this Nazi Germany?

Exactly!! But then again I've come to the conclusion the American populace has the memory of a goldfish.

Suppressors is what he meant.

Isnt it funny how quickly people forgot how they BEGGED for the police to be better equipped for situations like that?

Police continue to "militarize" because criminals continue to militarize.

Don't forget the north Hollywood bank robbery shootout of 1997. The police were outgunned by 2 dudes with body armor and a personal arsenal. The public outcry for better equipped more heavily armed cops after that incident is just one of the reasons why we are seeing these new militarized cops. Its simply become an…

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