Opinion: When outlaws are armed, only the armed will, um...

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Radley Balko points to another downside of militarizing police forces: Now the crooks are learning to dress up in SWAT gear when they want to invade your home. Which raises an interesting dilemma: When criminals knock on your door and identify themselves as cops, do you deserve to be shot for not obeying them?