You government folks. you better wake the hell up
SNIP:
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway
Bellying up to the arsenal.
by Shawn Musgrave, Tom Meagher, Ivar Vong & Gabriel Dance on Dec. 4, 2014, noon
This piece was reported and written by Shawn Musgrave of MuckRock and Tom Meagher and Gabriel Dance for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering criminal justice. Subscribe to its newsletter, or like it on Facebook. Follow MuckRock on Twitter and Facebook.
You may have heard that the image-conscious Los Angeles Unified School District chose to return the grenade launchers it received from the Defense Department’s surplus equipment program. You probably have not heard about some of the more obscure beneficiaries of the Pentagon giveaway:
For more than 20 years, the Pentagon program that distributes surplus weapons, aircraft and vehicles to police departments nationwide received little attention or scrutiny. Defense Department officials closely guarded the details of which agencies across the country received which items.
- Police in Johnston, R.I., with a population less than 29,000, acquired two bomb disposal robots, 10 tactical trucks, 35 assault rifles, more than 100 infrared gun sights and two pairs of footwear designed to protect against explosive mines. The Johnson police department has 67 sworn officers.
- The parks division of Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources was given 20 M-16 rifles, while the fish and wildlife enforcement division obtained another 20 M-16s, plus eight M-14 rifles and ten .45-caliber automatic pistols.
- Campus police at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, received 12 M-16s to help protect the 8,811 students there (or perhaps to keep them in line).
- The warden service of Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife received a small aircraft, 96 night vision goggles, 67 gun sights and seven M-14 rifles.
Then, events in Ferguson propelled the 1033 program, as the surplus distribution is called, into the public eye.
ALL of it here:
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway Muckrock
And why do you think Obama is calling for a: CIVILIAN national security force?
just who would they be beholding to?
You voted for him NOW look where we are. rioting, looting, marches disrupting your lives, etc
You government folks. you better wake the hell up
SNIP:
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway
Bellying up to the arsenal.
by Shawn Musgrave, Tom Meagher, Ivar Vong & Gabriel Dance on Dec. 4, 2014, noon
This piece was reported and written by Shawn Musgrave of MuckRock and Tom Meagher and Gabriel Dance for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering criminal justice. Subscribe to its newsletter, or like it on Facebook. Follow MuckRock on Twitter and Facebook.
You may have heard that the image-conscious Los Angeles Unified School District chose to return the grenade launchers it received from the Defense Department’s surplus equipment program. You probably have not heard about some of the more obscure beneficiaries of the Pentagon giveaway:
For more than 20 years, the Pentagon program that distributes surplus weapons, aircraft and vehicles to police departments nationwide received little attention or scrutiny. Defense Department officials closely guarded the details of which agencies across the country received which items.
- Police in Johnston, R.I., with a population less than 29,000, acquired two bomb disposal robots, 10 tactical trucks, 35 assault rifles, more than 100 infrared gun sights and two pairs of footwear designed to protect against explosive mines. The Johnson police department has 67 sworn officers.
- The parks division of Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources was given 20 M-16 rifles, while the fish and wildlife enforcement division obtained another 20 M-16s, plus eight M-14 rifles and ten .45-caliber automatic pistols.
- Campus police at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, received 12 M-16s to help protect the 8,811 students there (or perhaps to keep them in line).
- The warden service of Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife received a small aircraft, 96 night vision goggles, 67 gun sights and seven M-14 rifles.
Then, events in Ferguson propelled the 1033 program, as the surplus distribution is called, into the public eye.
ALL of it here:
The Pentagon Finally Details its Weapons-for-Cops Giveaway Muckrock
And why do you think Obama is calling for a: CIVILIAN national security force?
just who would they be beholding to?
You voted for him NOW look where we are. rioting, looting, marches disrupting your lives, etc
Stop the cut and paste long enough to explain what you mean by us lefties wailing on abortion. Cut and paste, the best friend of the illiterate.
Those two both hated Liberals. Why the **** can't you grow up and at least post something that approaches honesty?
All the Progressive Founding Fathers together at last
