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[Tonitrus]

And tacticool-tards, whether cops or not, always love a good excuse to wear their tactical shit.

[mongers]

And tacticool-tards, whether cops or not, always love a good excuse to wear their tactical shit.

Would you say it's fetishistic?

[DGuller]

It's two separate traditions rolled in one:  NYC loves perp walks, and since 9/11 NYC loves to dress up cops in tactical gear.  I think with the latter there is a belief that seeing terminators standing around makes people feel safe.  Whenever I go to work in the morning and see groups of terminators standing somewhere in transit, I check my news to see where in the world a terrorist attack just happened.

[grumbler]

I think more likely NYPD loves the photo opp of a perp walk.

This is my argument.  Had the NYPD actually feared a rescue/assassination, they'd not have been in the open at all.