>>64161144
>Muh cherry picking
The point is that law enforcement has always been "militarizing" due to advances in firearms and emergent threats.
>But cops back then didn't use XYZ
Because XYZ didn't exist back then
During Probation you had departments and agencies buying tons of Thompsons and BARs to deal with mobsters
In the 60s SWAT teams were created due to all the violent crime during the Civil Rights movement
The Munich Massacre was bungled because the cops assigned to rescue the hostages were regular patrol officers who went hunting on the weekends which why countries started creating and investing tons of money into paramilitary police teams
You had the Miami Dade shootout that caused tons of departments and agencies to move towards double stack 9mm handguns because they realized that .38 revolvers aren't enough to put guys down
Then you had the North Hollywood shootout which made people realize that the bad guys also had body armor which why cops started driving around with rifles in their trunk
All these small town police departments would still have gotten their hands on Bearcats, 9/11 did not cause this it just sped things along