After reading the Detroit Police tank thread, and seeing how the lowest part of society is behaving worse and worse... It reminds me of MANY movies from the past.
Movies/books such as; The Running Man, Robocop, Escape from NY, Demolition Man, Terminator, the FIRST Mad Max etc... Mostly the Sci Fi moives that depict a highly fragmented society, run by a police state, and a true underground of the last vestiges of people that are able to fend for themselves.
Slowly it looks like we are approaching that sort of lifestyle,... Ivory tower leadership, in control over an overly militaristic and aggressive police force, in turn control over a truely repressed mass of people. All in the name of "safety, security, and preservation of "life"'
Are these movies predicting the future or just a bunch of hooey? Or somewhere in the middle?