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Couldn't be they are designed for form and function, and used because they provide the best access to the tools that may be needed. Also couldn't be that it is your own paranoia that provides the fear.

Of all people you should understand being prepared, for god sakes you have a pistol vacuum sealed in your shower, and I'm betting you didn't put it there to protect yourself from the scary police.

should be that way today and the prison population would drop

The end justifies the means, right Robespierre?

What's a reign of terror amongst countrymen?

I don't believe you were an observer 50 years ago.

I was........ and for several years prior to that.

We are talking about a cop arresting a kid for wearing a tee shirt his teacher didn't like.

Hell NO, it would not have happened back then.

I was there.

yeah, who needs parents anyways?

What do you suggest doing with an un-assimilated minority during time of war with their home country?

me to , the only thing in my school was that girl dresses had to be below the knees and boys had to have their shirt tails tuck in their pants

One doesn't have to have been alive 50 years ago to know that police abuse was rampant back then. That's been clearly recorded in history.

We have guys on this forum that were cops that long ago, that have testified to the same.

Arrest the criminals.

You do realize that the most decorated unit of our entire military history was one that was entirely made up of Japanese Americans who fought in WWII, right?

The bottom line here is that todays law enforcement fears and hates the general population as a group. Sure, they like their friends and relatives but if they don't know you on a very personal level, you are the enemy. The population is starting to hate and fear the police for good reason. One feeds off the others fears. In times of a crisis as shown during the LA riots and Katrina, the police run for the hills. If they don't have overwhelming odds, they run away. We're supposed to respect this? I think not.

Why black, then?? A color associated in the minds of Americans with WWII era tyrannies.

the police in the 50 and 60's might have been called if you wore a tee putting down the bible , but i even dough that would have justified a call

Categorically untrue.

The spreading fear of paranoid weirdo's is not a good reason.

You mean, like the one's that ran into the towers or towards the bombs?

The manufactures made them because they saw a need for a more functional product. So, they made it, and it sells.

I'm well aware of that but it's also a fact that many Japanese-Americans were sent to Japan to be educated and indoctrinated and were disloyal, their allegiance being to the Empire of Japan. The same case I'm sure could be made for patriotic Muslims fighting in our armed forces but it doesn't change the fact that the larger Muslim population presents a threat.

Why black? We know why. Because it instills fear in the public at large. The manufacturers make what the police departments ask for.

The difference is one is an ideology, and the other is a race.

Give me a break TRH, most Americans couldn't tell you what the WWII era tyrants uniforms looked like outside of a swastika. Once again you are projecting your paranoia on to the rest of the American people.

Are you serious? Easy to be a tough guy when no one is shooting back, isn't it?

Black isn't because it makes anyone scared. If that was the case, then the black suit worn by church goers wouldn't be so popular...

The color is functional because it's subdued and allows a bit of cover.