It Is Time We Treat Police Brutality as a National Crisis

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6. It was the war on drugs that gave the world of Officialdom the excuse to

Militarize the police.

If we had not gone down the path of that particular war, there is quite a strong chance that the police would still be far less militant. So much of the PD's training these days is about how there are so many forces out to get them. And since the gangs that have survived go on to buy arsenals of automatic weaponry and even grenades and rocket launchers, and their ability to wipe out entire squads of police does exist, then that style of training will go on and on.

Legalize drugs and watch the problem fade. Legalizing drugs would immediately dis-empower the gangs.