This time I'll ask. Citation? Because when I look at overseas police stats, I see things like how police in the UK don't even carry guns with them. Same with Norway, and Ireland, and Iceland, and New Zealand (not in the Europe, I'm aware, but still).
NONE of which the police will use on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly basis.
So you acknowledge you are just fear mongering and that none of this 'militarization' actually amounts to anything? Thanks.
Despite your assertion that America is filled with gigantic criminal organizations that engage in open warfare with police that necessitate the use of this equipment, it really, really isn't outside of incredibly rare, incredibly specific circumstances.
I have asserted nothing of the sort... I have asserted that there are 400,000,000+ guns, tens of millions of high powered rifles, etc., in the hands of the public in the US. So its a genuinely stupid opinion to expect police to just make due with their pistol and contend that anything more powerful/any menacing looking body armor, etc., is just too much and too militarized for your comfort... Organized crime pales in comparison to the number of just plain old crazy people holed up in their homes with high powered rifles just waiting to snap.
The North Hollywood Shootout amply demonstrated what happens when the police are underequipped... Just because there isn't an equivalent shootout every other day with suspects fully decked out in body armor and high powered rifles doesn't mean the police shouldn't be prepare for such an eventuality.