Originally Posted by AngryMiller

I remember when swat teams were first introduced. Soon there after I noticed the black uniforms on regular police officers, the para military gear, combat boots, bloused pants legs, etc. on regular day-to-day police officers. Even seen it in rentacops at some malls.

This strikes me as folks pretending to be something they aren't and as adults should know better than to play dressup to impress someone.