Unfortunately, we’ve reach a new reality with police in the United States. Police are often feared and seen as mafia enforcers for overbearing governments. People have a good mind to fear police as they no longer just carrying a pistol in a average vehicle marked with the police emblem. We have witnessed the militarization of police since 1997 when the National Defense Authorization Act granted the transfer of military products to law enforcement agencies across the country. The country has watched over $5 billion dollars in military equipment be transferred to police departments between 1997 and 2014. Former president Barack Obama signed executive order 13688 to limit certain types of military equipment but President Donald Trump stepped in to allows the transfers once again. What exactly does the militarization of police mean? Well, law officers who once held pistols, shotguns, and average police cars, now possess equipment the military would use when fighting wars. We see police departments with heavily armored vehicles capable of withstanding roadside bombs. What purpose do police departments have with such vehicles? We see infrared gun sights, M-14 and M-16 rifles, bomb disposal robots, night vision goggles, and the previously mentioned heavily armored vehicles. Police are either setting up for war to support unconstitutional laws or setting up for war to support unconstitutional laws. There’s no practical purpose for small town or even major city police to have access to military grade weapons and defense items.