Quote: (08-28-2014 04:43 PM)jamaicabound Wrote:
Shit how many peoples dogs have been killed or even 96 year old women by cops breaking into the wrong houses and things like that. This is basically all due to the cops being turned into a military type force and being given shit they have no business having as far as weapons and technology. The Federal Government is giving grants to all these dinky ass towns to spend millions on technology and armored carriers and shit they will never ever need. Vice did a doc on this on youtube fairly recently.
One positive thing is I was reading a story on drudge the other day, don't recall where inthe city but the city council was forcing the cops to give back some type of assault vehicle or something like that, they didn't want their police force to be a military unit without adaquete training apparently.
You're talking about this.
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Towns Say 'No Tanks' to Militarized Police
Growing Unease Over Departments' Use Of Vehicles and Gear Designed for Battle
By JENNIFER LEVITZ CONNECT
Updated Feb. 7, 2014 2:45 p.m. ET
High Springs, Fla., police officer James Field exits an MRAP—an armored, mine-resistant ambush-protected military vehicle—now owned by his department. Gainesville Sun /Landov
Residents in some towns have begun standing up to the large armored vehicles that local police departments are receiving from the federal government.
Six-figure grants from the Department of Homeland Security have been funding BearCats and other heavily fortified vehicles in towns and cities nationwide since soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Beginning last summer, the government also has handed out 200 surplus vehicles built to withstand mines and bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is considering requests from 750 more communities.
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