A beat cop's musings on policing in America
This continues a series of articles looking at different ways Trump’s election might have an impact on law enforcement.
As I noted in my last post, the transfer of military equipment to local police departments has been a subject of scrutiny and controversy in recent years, and the Trump presidency looks to be conducive to that transfer.
A common criticism you hear coming from progressive circles these days is against the “militarization” of police. This criticism goes deeper than just equipment, and deserves (and will ultimately get) more treatment than what I’ll say in just this article. But the face of the argument is in police equipment: most visibly, rifles, armored vehicles, and more BDU-like uniforms.