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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
I would add that they have been at war for their whole entire existence. They were founded based on the populous rising up against their government. With a country as large as the USA the government is afraid how easily the population could overrun them if they really tried to. Yes the government has allnthe fancy tech but they have been fighting determined local populations in every majour conflict in those last 70 plus years and gotten nowhere without other countries help.
Point 2 would be policing being populated by ex military is a problem but they most likely fear the number of ex military that chooses not to be cops aswell. Theres probably more than enough ex milatary that could organize the population if needed
We saw many ex military going out in support of the protests yelling at the cops and national guard they were not following their oaths. |
My issue with vets in the police, even prison guards is not based on their politics so much as just how diametrically opposed the skill set of a soldier is to the skill set of a cop, soldiers are essentially taught to operate unthinkingly as part of a team that meets an objective by the use of escalating force as quickly as possible with almost no regard to the process, a good policeman needs to be very independent and flexible and able to reassess and adjust to a situation rapidly, while a policeman has to meet an objective how he gets to the objective is as important as the objective itself.
Police training in the US is completely dominated by a military perspective as well, it all becomes a feedback loop of increasing violence and inflexibility, most of the shootings we are talking about here are because a civilian didn't do as they were told, now I dont doubt there have been occcasions where the person that got shot for not obeying an order was a bad guy who would have done something bad if they hadnt been shot, but that doesn't make the decision making process in any way ok, for every one guy that was stopped from doing something heinous there are a hundred who wouldn't and are still dead