But the story that policing is much more dangerous than it really is a useful one. It has a business-model. Military contractors who turning local Barney Fifes into Judge Dredd cosplayers with assault rifles, tanks and other "excess" military gear make billions from the tale:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#1033-1022
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