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  • Essay / Benefits of a Militarized Police Force - 1037

    Mr. Kurt Eichenwald is a journalist who said: Start with militarization. While this may seem like a "boys with toys" problem (cops dressing up in disguise while looking for their inner GI Joe), it's actually bad law enforcement tactics. One thing sometimes forgotten is that there are decades of research into police tactics, and that competent officers and their bosses rely on that research for guidance because they want to maintain law and order, instead of to simply pretend that the RoboCop movie was a documentary. Research shows that militarization rarely works and usually makes the situation worse. (Eichenwald) As Mr. Eichenwald said, militarized police forces rarely work, but they usually make the situation worse by further angering the group and causing riots. Although this sometimes seems true, most of the time it is..