The police aren't a part of the community they serve, it's explicitly trained into them to treat every situation as "us" vs "them". If "they" have rifles then "we" need armored vehicles.
Edit: to be very clear, I am not in support of police militarization.
Are you using the clear urls filter list? Copied another post in this thread:
Edit: idk how to link to the post on lemmy.world or if I'm just dumb but I grabbed a kbin.social link to the post.