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Interesting that multicides now escalate to police armoured vehicles fairly quickly.

A headline caught my eye last time I was in the US. The small city of Watertown, New York received a $600k 2008 year MRAP for their police department in some sort of cascade of surplus federal property to lower levels. There are three things in Watertown - retail destinations for crossborder Canadian shoppers, nearby US Army`s Fort Drum and the factory that makes those little green pinetree car air fresheners. What level of crime substantiates a full-on ambush protected vehicle?

I had a blunt internet agree-to-disagree discussion with a serving RCMP constable about whether the City of Saskatoon really needed a similar armoured response vehicle, when their officers are probably at greater risk from bad tires on the patrol cars.

That said, a few months ago the City of Montreal punched a hole in a barracaded house with a boom on their Cadillac Gage M100 A/C. Chuck in the teargas and manhandle everyone who emerged coughing and puking. In that circumstance things worked out safely for everyone.