Even as Violent Crime Falls, Killing of Officers Rises

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12. Must have learned to like sand, given that the above opinions sound like

they came from a perspective buried in it.

But thanks for proving my point - I didn't say they were military, just military-like. As in copying some of the actions, but without the discipline, or the mission. Like third-world "militias" (damn, that shoulda been a clue).

No tough doesn't come from a gun, but it isn't evidenced when the military killed children and old men in villages and burned their homes in Vietnam, or murdered civilians in the Mid-East, either. And it isn't evidenced by most of the cops I see either.

New York City now says they have the ability to shoot down errant airliners. I am guessing they don't mean with a 9mm. Tanks knocking down homes in Texas, other locations.

And hostile targets are identified here just as easily. No warning shots. 74 year old preacher with no gun in his hand. Dead. 30ish year old mentally challenged man holdoing a plastic bottle of coke, had committed no crime, beaten to the floor and choked even though the video shows NO aggression by anyone but the police officer(s). Dead.

And they do love dressing up in those uniforms, as if it means something...ymmv