When did police start dressing like characters from Fortnite and Call of Duty? When did MRAPs become police cars? And what is camouflage good for on an urban street?
These things exist to induce fear.
There’s a word for things that look like the military, act like the military, but aren’t the military.
They’re called paramilitaries.
We need good police — present in and part of our communities. But you can’t do that from behind a mask.