[princess3000]

Actually the militarization of the police force comes from a coordinated effort to repurpose military hardware for domestic police use. [1]

Kind of funny that the gear used to fight one terrible war overseas is sent back to our own country and used to fight another terrible war domestically, huh?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/program-1033-military-equipme...

[rayiner]

That's a relatively recent phenomenon that comes at the tail end of something that has been happening for many decades now.