Last August, the Trump administration lifted a ban on military surplus hardware being transferred to police departments across the United States. The controversial 1033 program became a source of citizen outrage after images of police armed with military-grade weaponry, including grenade launchers and armored MRAPs, were beamed into people homes across the country during the battlefield-style police response to the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.
As many Americans noted, Ferguson, Missouri looked like a war zone, with police kitted out in Marine-issue camouflage and military-grade body armor, toting short-barreled assault rifles, and rolling around in armored vehicles — virtually indistinguishable from US soldiers.
Shortly after the American public became widely aware, and largely outraged, over the extreme militarization of their local police forces, President Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) that blocked large-caliber weapons, armored vehicles, grenade launchers and other heavy military hardware from being repurposed from battlefields across the globe to small town USA.
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The same cops that have been authorized to come for your guns
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ReplyDeleteWhere is Imsane? Must not have internet privileges at the nursing home on Thursdays.
ReplyDeleteSimilar program used by WiCo Sheriff for procurement of military equipment.
ReplyDeleteDitto for SBY Fire Boat
Sounds like a sweet side job going on somewhere. If the ATV's and trucks have not been sold then the city is paying to store or house them somewhere!!
ReplyDeleteYou obviously aren't aware of the Dewey Beach slush fund fiasco. They acquired twice that many vehicles as well as a bunch of other stuff
ReplyDeleteLimelight Lewis got the MRAP so he could see over the vehicles around him without sitting on a dictionary.
ReplyDeleteFunny the Sheriff's Office has not one highway it all falls under the State Police yet they have Harleys. Who pays the added insurance and upkeep on those Bikes. We do. The Mighty Midget needs his toys he is lacking in manhood. Maybe he should adopt a couple of the horses that managed to live.
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