(February 24, 2019 at 10:39 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And those things are running around town all the time? Are those running traffic stops? Doing crossing guard duty? How many of them are on the streets?
I take you back to the Texas Tower mass shooting. The cops didn't have hard vehicles and had to borrow Brinks' armored cars to get shooting victims off the lawn below the tower. Better to have something and not need it than to need it and not have it.
I'm not necessarily against the militarization of police. But tanks are military vehicles, and police have them. They are, in fact, militarizing.