Your friendly neighbourhood 'bobby' on the beat, now relegated to the realm of nostalgia.
Warrior cops: the ominous growth of paramilitarism in american police departments
The 1980s and 1990s have seen marked changes in the number of state and local paramilitary units, in their mission and deployment, and in their tactical armament.
According to a recent academic survey, nearly 90 per cent of the police departments surveyed in cities with populations over 50,000 had paramilitary units, as did 70pc of the departments surveyed in communities with populations under 50,000.
The Pentagon has been equipping those units with M-16s, armored personnel carriers, and grenade launchers.
The police paramilitary units also conduct training exercises with active hard core Army Rangers and Navy SEALs.
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