Reply #20: It's not just the SWAT teams.

[BiggJawn]

In my town, every-day patrol officers wear black "Tactical" gear, have their heads shaved, jumpboots with BDU trousers bloused, shirtsleeves rolled up 70's gay-bar-style to show off their huge ('roid-enhanced?) biceps, sunglasses at night...

"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy."

Yeah, they call us "Perps".

I'm 50 years old, white, middle-class-looking, not likely to trip any "profile trigger" and nothing gets my goose bumps going like seeing one of those Robo-Cop wanna-bees hanging around. Mutha fuckers.