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Originally Posted by bobcat
most police are paramilitary. even in the UK where most of them are unarmed they still qualify as paramilitary forces.(granted when they aren't armed we often refer to them by a different nomenclature "targets")
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Police become paramilitary when they are more like military (in equipment, organization, and habit) than like civilians. That is certainly true in the US for special units like SWAT teams, but is not true for most police.