It was trendy not long ago, and perhaps will still be trendy for some people, to express concern over the "militarization of the police." Maybe it's OK for cops to have sidearms and billy clubs, but not the type of equipment the military uses to win wars. Because if they had that equipment, so goes the thinking of leftists and paranoid libertarians, they will use it to wage war on us!
You will get no such sentiment from this column. Especially given the reality we see today of politically inspired riots - with police on the receiving end of bottle rockets and smoke bombs - I say equip the police with everything you can possibly give them.
