If a police force uses outdated equipment and shoddy tactics that only leave disorganised assaults on crowds as the first resort then that is often a sign of the kind of lack of internal oversight and discipline that allows often racist warrior policing to flourish

Militarised policing still involves tight discipline and well-structured command and control.

Warrior policing often involves the undisciplined use of sudden violence to intimidate hostile populations

"Militarised" is often the wrong term for what is happening to policing in the US.

Instead you have police forces given a massive boost of firepower without commensurate levels of training and oversight to prevent the emergence of an undisciplined and brutal warrior ethos

When police forces start defining much of the population they are tasked to protect as hostile by default, then a red zone/green zone mentality kicks in that fosters implosion of discipline

Why gendarmeries as well as UK-style police emphasise long and intensive training systems