Quote Originally Posted by coloccw View Post
Holy cow the tinfoil is thick in this thread. 2 random pictures with no supporting context and everyone is talking shit about the people who protect you while you sleep. Yes, there are good and bad cops, all are human and make mistakes as we all do. The same people bitching about overweight cops are some of the same people that can't walk half a mile without stopping to catch their breath. Some of you need to spend less time armchair quarterbacking people who protect you and more time being productive.

Rant over for now
I think the issue is that we see an ever increasing 'militaristic' equipping of our local law enforcement units. There seems to be a trend over the past 20 years or so, to blur the line between the military and local law enforcement. Not just through equipment but also training, tactics and attitude.

The military attitude is much less "innocent until proven guilty" than our "civilian" laws portend.

While i believe that our local law enforcement agencies has just cause to up-gear, up-train and up-tactic due to the increasing capabilities of threats, I also believe that there is a very real 'Orwellian' threat facing the citizenry of the U.S.