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The increasingly confrontational behavior of contemporary police is not helping matters.

Correct. It is disgusting.

The shaved head, tactical/tacticool gear, and steroided approach isn't beneficial, either.

I agree. They seem to continuously forget that regardless of their training and tactics and equipment and attitude and budgets and military vehicles... that they are not prepared to operate on an even-force basis.

I expect that even a rudimentarily trained insurgent unit of domestic patriots, having preplanned to a limited degree, would have a turkey shoot on any SWAT unit that showed up to a manufactured situation.

While I remain a supporter of L.E. in general, rarely do I find myself saying, "Gee, there is a police officer in my rear view mirror. Boy, do I feel safer with him driving nearby."

Hell, I don't think a single American has felt that for a very, very long time.

I would suspect that the fraction of all Americans who view law enforcement in their rear view mirror as an active danger and oppressive threat is very close to 1.

They seem to continuously forget that regardless of their training and tactics and equipment and attitude and budgets and military vehicles... that they are not prepared to operate on an even-force basis.

They don't have the cohesion of a military unit - nor should they. Some of those guys don't seem to realize that their job effectiveness utterly relies on cooperative citizens. As has been repeatedly demonstrated, if the population were to go feral, there's no way to cope with that.