The two opposing forces in the militarization of police are the people who believe it is unnecessary and the people who think that it will benefit the community.
- The two sides oppose each other because some people feel that the police do not need military weapons to serve and protect our community while some people feel that it is necessary to give police military grade equipment to serve and protect our community.
- Some people feel like militarizing police will NOT help protect our community and think that militarization of police will provoke more violent confrontations. In the article,” Police Use of Military Style Tactics Can Be Recipe For Trouble”, journalist Radley Balko states, “The problem with the overwhelming use of SWAT teams today is they’re used to serve these drug warrants, and here, they’re creating violence and confrontation where there was none before.” This means that SWAT teams are being used for serving warrants and are creating more violent confrontations.