Lots of people are noticing ...

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... it's probably not long before it goes mainstream:

This is only the beginning of the twisted logic of military policing. In a further bitter irony, the rise of the warrior cop feeds every paranoid inclination of our armed citizen-survivalists, which encourages, of course, yet more militarization.

Radley Balko (now at WaPo) has been beating this drum for years now.

Hopefully, more are listening.

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