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by synlatexc 2427 days ago
Exactly.

Recall an NYT article[1] on the topic.

It describes how police chiefs will make a spectacle out of their newly purchased tanks or whatever, even bringing them to schools for kids to check out.

Best quote was from a police chief who hadn't been swept up in the mania for military gear and vehicles:

“I go to schools,” he said. “But I bring ‘Green Eggs and Ham.’”

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-poli...