Timeline for Practical reasons to have both a large police force and bounty hunting network?
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 19:08 | comment | added | ChrisW | Dealing with terrorists though is ideally police-work rather than military -- e.g. it's not a (military-grade) anti-tank missile or machine-gun that you want against a "terrorist", rather it's (police-grade) intelligence as to who and where they are (plus sovereignty so that you can go there and arrest them). | |
| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:56 | comment | added | ChrisW | Yeah in Canada I think they task the army when there's an unusual snow-storm and they want the emergency man-power; but also if there's something resembling armed insurgency -- e.g. against the FLQ to act as sentries etc. (to leave the police free to do regular police-work) and in the Oka crisis because the police didn't have the training or discipline or what-have-you required to cope with armed resistance non-violently -- ditto Little Rock in the States. | |
| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:45 | history | edited | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:44 | comment | added | Celestial Dragon Emperor | maybe the remnants of the military deal with terrorists and insurgencies? All the other functions I believe could be done by the police or a government entity. | |
| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:38 | history | edited | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 5, 2019 at 18:28 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |