im sure they had plenty of complaints and the people of cambridge dont like them looking like mercenaries.
the rifle pictured is SS stamped.
im also thinking 60 rifles that they ar tired of maintaining , love to know what they got from uncle sam for snipers?
Un related friends in NH say thier "free" rifles they got from the "gov" sit in the basement getting rusty.
The next push from cambridge and other communities will be the disbanding of SwAT and armored vehicles.
To quote what seems to be a sleeper cerebral movie (Looper), it's a circle.
1960's, riots, police attack, then there is backlash, possibly mixed in with anti-war sentiment. Police back off. Morale drops. For 20 years or more, cities turn into festering jungles.
Finally, Uncle Bill comes along. "Aahhh feeeeel yerrrr paynnn." What does he do? He helps increase police in the inner city and stamp out crime. A wave of this goes through the country. NYC becomes one of the safest places to live in the world.
SOME police go overboard and over-protect. Ferguson, MO is one. (Although that wasn't the police dept's fault, but I digress.) Backlash. Police must back off and stay away.
So within the next decade or so, the s-hole cities - Chicago, Detroit, StL, etc., will be clamoring for a solution . . . which will involve us re-arming our police departments.
All that said, I'm not sure camo uniforms are particularly helpful in freaking Cambridge. Outside of public parks, is there any green space IN Cambridge???? Who are they hiding from?? Professor Buck and Dean Grouse????