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>>miles+(OP)
I don’t think the police need MRAPs. That’s a bit over the top. However, it does seem they need some sort of up-armored police cars given how many of them have been destroyed in the rioting. SWAT maybe has some use for military equipment, but only for bona-fide SWAT situations (hostages/bombs/active shooter.) But rolling out MRAPs for general policing is a bad policy. It’s one step removed from deploying tanks and it’s a bad look and probably counterproductive.

>>briand+Ra
Riots don't happen in the thousands of small towns who have leveled up with useless armored vehicles.

>>kevin_+pc
I think that's the same argument somebody advocating for the use of armored vehicles would make... no riots is the goal, after all