Not quite, I think you misunderstand what I was trying to say.
Of course the Police should be suitably equipped so they can perform their immediate Policing duties with minimum danger to themselves, and for they themselves to also act within the law and use appropriate minimal yet proportional force to apprehend and bring to justice the alleged perpetrator when required in order to uphold the law.
I don't think anyone is disputing this as a generalisation, the Police have a difficult and often dangerous job and one that most will attempt to perform with care and duty and support of the public, though that argument could be taken to the next stage, as in why not use robots instead so the Police can sit safely and anonymously in a bunker miles from the scene...
I just find it all disturbing and a very sad reflection on our civil societies and what we have become, that such scenes are somehow regarded as being in any way remotely acceptable.
They're not, and we really should be trying to prevent such scenes and the reasons for such scenes from ever happening in the first place.
I read somewhere the other day, I can't find the link at the moment, that over half of full on SWAT responses in the US, SWAT teams once only ever called in for very serious situations, are now for largely for what would be considered domestic disputes.
As I said, a good place to start in the US, to try and regain some sense of a civil society rather than that of a paramilitary state, would be for them to reaxamine the remarkably relaxed firearm laws that have caused so much of this escalation in technology and subsequent inevitable brutalising of the public, but also resulted in the brutalising of the Policeforce itself and its responses when it feels under attack.
