Yup.
The past several years the federal government has
embarked on a strategy of militarizing the local law enforcement
agencies around the country. They have provided the money and equipment
to give these agencies the appearance of small military units that act
in a manner far removed from the community service of days past. This
has pushed many local departments away from the friendly approach they
utilized in the past to serve the public interest.
I have seen it myself in the local department where I
live. In a county with less than 20,000 people we now have a police
force with almost 50 officers and the sheriff wants at least 100 more
auxiliary police officers. What all of these police are for in this
sparsely populated area has yet to be answered. The sheriff has also
made it a point to hire deputies from outside the county to ensure there
is no close connection between the police and the local community.
This is exactly what the federal government wants,
to ensure the local police will not be in a position to side with
locals if anything happens. It is in the governments' best interest to
drive a wedge between the communities and law enforcement. The
government is apparently designing a confrontation between citizens and
the government and they are using local agencies to assist.
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