Sure. They’re also historically terrible at being actual police. One groups job is to enforce the law and the others job is to apply force.
A soldier invariably has more training into the rules surrounding the application of force, but they have a significantly higher baseline level of violence than the police do. It’s unusual for the police to wear full armor and carry automatic rifles. In fact, one of the largest concerns about the organization of modern police forces is that they are becoming increasingly similar to the military.
The military is better at following their rules, but their rules include how to decide the number of known innocent civilians that are acceptable to kill.
We like to pretend that the people we train to dehumanize their opposition to increase lethality and who have a track record for sometimes stupendous civilian death rates will, when deployed domestically, not view the civilians here as the opposition, have a keen awareness of their personhood, and generally not act like every other time the military has been deployed against their nations civilian population.
We have rules against the military being used domestically for a good reason.
Do you think soldiers are different than cops? Do you think someone who somehow has less law enforcement training than a cop will do the job better?
It depends what “the job” involves. I suspect Soldiers are better than cops at following rules of engagement.
Sure. They’re also historically terrible at being actual police. One groups job is to enforce the law and the others job is to apply force.
A soldier invariably has more training into the rules surrounding the application of force, but they have a significantly higher baseline level of violence than the police do. It’s unusual for the police to wear full armor and carry automatic rifles. In fact, one of the largest concerns about the organization of modern police forces is that they are becoming increasingly similar to the military.
The military is better at following their rules, but their rules include how to decide the number of known innocent civilians that are acceptable to kill.
We like to pretend that the people we train to dehumanize their opposition to increase lethality and who have a track record for sometimes stupendous civilian death rates will, when deployed domestically, not view the civilians here as the opposition, have a keen awareness of their personhood, and generally not act like every other time the military has been deployed against their nations civilian population.
We have rules against the military being used domestically for a good reason.