The conflict of militarization of police is progressive.
- Militarization of police is progressive because police departments are changing policing to fit the military model.
- This conflict is progressive because police departments are trying to fit the military model. According to the article, “Police Militarization,” written by, Scott W. Phillips, the author states, “Examinations of police militarization usually focus on Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, developed in the mid-1970s in response to hostage or barricaded suspect incidents that patrol officers could not handle sufficiently.” This means that a program called Special Weapons and Tactics or SWAT was developed to respond to situations that regular police could not handle. According to the documentary, Do Not Resist, Dr. Pete Kraska states, “The number of SWAT raids have grown from approximately 3,000 annually in the 1980s to around 50,000 in 2014.” This means that SWAT raids have dramatically raised in a span of 34 years.