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Originally Posted by Žorkell
It seems to me that mostly American police forces are under discussion. I don't see any of this applying to Nordic police forces, or indeed most of Europe with the possible exception of the Carabineri and Gendarmes.
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One peculiarity of US police is that we have rules against using regular military forces for domestic operations, and thus situations that in other countries would by handled by military special forces are instead handled by specialized police forces (the national guard can be used for domestic operations, but doesn't really have special forces, though they are sometimes used for riot control).
As far as militarization of the police... sure, our police are more heavily armed than in many countries. Now compare them to the SAS.