United States Police armored vehicles are fully unarmed, they do not have access to machine guns and most of their rifles are semi-auto only. They do not have armed drones either.
UK Policemen go UNARMED, their SWAT unit is mostly equipped with 5.56 rifles.
Russian Police currently has no SWAT unit and all of them are armed with 9mm firearms.
You're confusing paramilitary and actual military forces with Police.
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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
With social manipulation through social media and the Internet, there will likely be more riots as white supremists, Neo-Nazis, and other bigots attempt to change society through violence. With the job displacement trends that seem to come from digital automation, they will have plenty of disaffected unemployed people who will join in the violence, if nothing else than to commit violent felonies with impunity. In order to protect the innocent, police forces will have to come down hard on the rioters, as the rioters will otherwise victimize anyone they get their hands on.
In order to come down hard on rioterd without mass casualties, you need military equipment that can deliver lots of nonlethal munitions at a distance. Whether it is a 100mm TML with Sleep gas or a 25mm ETC Auto cannon delivering Tangle rounds, developed nations will use military grade weapons to incapacitate rather than kill rioters. When people are asleep or restrained, then the patrol officers can take them to the precinct. Civilian weapons are not capable of nonlethally taking out mass number of rioters.
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Please keep your political opinions and violent fantasies of putting people down hard out of this thread, they're not helpful to the discussion and are outright illogical.