The Police are civilians too

The militarization of the police has broadened the divide between them and us.  David Rittgers points out that they aren't the military implementing government policy but deputized civilians keeping the peace.  With 47 million Americans now convicted 'felons', they are increasingly out of control.  And why have they been militarized?  Terrorism? Nope.  The 'war on drugs' (actually, it should be called the 'War on People who think different then our lawyer elites').

True, they are civilians charged with enforcing the law and are empowered to use force to do so — but they are civilians nonetheless. When police officers refer to their fellow citizens as civilians and mean to exclude themselves from that category, they’ve mentally leapt from enforcing the law to destroying the enemies of the state. That’s incompatible with a free society.