'Novice' Over-Militarized St Louis Police

[Hortical]

Police goons who believe they are tough with their 5.56 rifles.

Reddit's Gun Community Takes Aim at 'Novice' Over-Militarized Police in Ferguson


Written by Brian Merchant

Senior Editor

August 14, 2014 // 04:00 PM EST
The photo above, which features a camouflaged police officer sitting atop a mine-resistant armored truck in Ferguson, Missouri, with a decked-out rifle, has been widely circulated as evidence of how militarized the American police force has become. To the trained eye, it's also suggestive of how poorly prepared those police are to be militarized.

Reddit's gun aficionados are pointing out that the rifle is so loaded with conflicting gadgets—a flashlight, "red dot" sight, bipod—that it demonstrates that the officer probably isn't very familiar with using it. One user, who owns two similar weapons, called it a "novice" setup. Others called it "goofy," "HORRIBLE," and a "waste of taxpayer dollars." It's also part of a trend—many of the rifles being used in Ferguson have the same setup, which baffles the gun owners and enthusiasts over at r/Guns.




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[Hortical]

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[Historian]

The New Approach Has Failed As Well

Point taken, Horts, but the admirable effort by the governor to demilitarize the initial approach (using the Missouri highway patrol, led by a black cop, to replace those earlier heavily armed police units) hasn’t helped much in the long run.

Despite the much more peaceful approach by the highway patrol (marching alongside protestors, for example, instead of confronting them), look at what happened again in Ferguson last night.

[Mosiah]

Makes you want to support the 2nd Amendment.

[Karl]

Failed to do what?

- 1. Reduce risk of citizens being shot by the police?

- 2. Police being attacked by 'rowdies'?

- 3. Looting? ...was that an aim in the first place?
In light of there being no curfew and human assets being deployed other than covering/observing and protecting over otherwise wider area than that when concentrated in one location or fewer locations... - many more areas and citizens left without 'eyes' to observe and protect'...

If prevention of unrest was the aim how does having the police march on peaceful protesters prevent that?

*My problem with security forces everywhere is the propensity to, like Pavlov's dog, react instinctively to applying 'overkill' and not reacting with logical thinking.

Example our JAMAICA: In killing of Claude Clarke's brother - Keith Clake. Why with a suspect tapped in a house/building could he not be extricated peacefully? It was a mere few hours wait for daylight v snuffing out a human's life? ...and I do not care if the human was as depraved as they thought...


In Ferguson it was the police's job to locate, isolate and remove criminal from the township not to storm peaceful law-abiding citizens. In my eyes the change in command was necessary and tremendous success when weighed against what held before!!!!

[Rockman]

Historian,soldiers are different from police officers,the rules of engagement are not the same.
Camouflage outfits have no other value than to make a distinction one that isn't missed by police officers.
There have been that push by the powers that be to militarize police ,they do it with donating military surplus or equipments that became redundant.
It is all about pyschology.Jus
Malcolm X stated that every time his people become effective the white man appoints his uncle tom black man in a position to offset the movement.Maybe from the appointment we will get a I have a dream speech too,the wrong person dreamt....