Robocop came out in 1987 and was a response to US police militarization a decade before Columbine, I think the main thing that has screwed US policing has been a semi permanent state of war the US has been for my whole 60 years in meaning a stream of ex soldiers joining the police who are possibly the least suitable human beings you could ever hire to be policemen, they have been promoted sent up the chain of command, developed procedures and training that mirror their military experiences
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