Almost 70 percent of the United States population lives in a local law enforcement jurisdiction that is equipped with military-grade weapons. At least 200 operations are deployed by the police each day with these items.
The increased use of military equipment by law enforcement agencies is not confined to the US. As terrorist threats escalated, many European countries deployed military equipment to protect potential terrorist targets.
In the developing world, the police have been heavily militarised for many years, and in some cases, the army is directly used to fight crime.
