No, this guy is wrong. He sees a lot of the symptoms, but he connected the wrong dots. Uvalde's (and Parkland et al) police cowardice and the excessive milirarization everywhere are both symptoms of underlying problems. But militarization did not cause Uvalde.
Uvalde, Parkland, et al, where police failed to act, reveal an underlying corruption among leadership. Corruption does not just show up as money changing hands. The legitimate political process can directly lead to a corrupt leadership, and that's something Americans fail to understand. The political process can only reflect the attitude of the people. If the people are corrupt, no system can safeguard the people from themselves. And Parkland and Uvalde are both corrupt, with the police leadership more interested in protecting their "friends" in the town elite, than actually doing their jobs for the rest of the city.
People like to blame "militarization" for alienating the community. It is the other way around. The community gets alienated first, and then police gets militarized. If community supports the police, then police would not stay militarized. They will grab all of the free shit from DoD they can, tanks, vests, guns, etc, because why not. But they won't use them (most of the time), because they don't need to. Vests are too hot. rifles are heavier than pistols. Tanks waste gas and don't drive well.
The problem in much of America, is that the community does not support the police. Part of that, is because the moneyed class have captured the political leadership, so police work for the elites against the poor. Another part is because Diversity has failed. Different cultures support different things. So they're OK with much of the supposed illegality. So of course they don't support the police.
So it is very interesting that this supposed police-military veteran does not discuss any of the real root causes. That tells you he is evil or stupud (probably both).
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