Police Are Buying Drones and Armored Vehicles With COVID Relief Funds

[Weatherman2020]

Your government is preparing for the upcoming Civil War. Big government doing what big government does.

The Kingsport Police Department, a small agency in Tennessee, purchased two “military-grade” drones in early March. Meanwhile, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri spent $334,715 of its $2.6 million allotment on a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle to replace a mine-resistant, 60,000-pound armed personnel carrier that the county received previously. Butler County, Pennsylvania bought a $330,000 Gurkha armored vehicle and the Hancock County Board of Commissioners in Ohio approved the purchase of a BearCat armored vehicle with ARP funds at a price tag of around $250,000 earlier this month.

Police Are Buying Drones and Armored Vehicles With COVID Relief Funds

President Biden has encouraged more spending on police tech, despite local activists’ calls to fund life-sustaining food and housing programs.

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[1srelluc]

Meh, welcome to the last 20 years.....The only difference is the pot of money their armor comes from.

 

[westwall]

Your government is preparing for the upcoming Civil War. Big government doing what big government does.

The Kingsport Police Department, a small agency in Tennessee, purchased two “military-grade” drones in early March. Meanwhile, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department in Missouri spent $334,715 of its $2.6 million allotment on a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle to replace a mine-resistant, 60,000-pound armed personnel carrier that the county received previously. Butler County, Pennsylvania bought a $330,000 Gurkha armored vehicle and the Hancock County Board of Commissioners in Ohio approved the purchase of a BearCat armored vehicle with ARP funds at a price tag of around $250,000 earlier this month.

Police Are Buying Drones and Armored Vehicles With COVID Relief Funds

President Biden has encouraged more spending on police tech, despite local activists’ calls to fund life-sustaining food and housing programs.

www.vice.com

Armored vehicles are cute. They are easy meat in a urban setting however.

The drones are a problem. High energy lasers are good for rendering them useless though.

 

[1srelluc]

Armored vehicles are cute. They are easy meat in a urban setting however.

The drones are a problem. High energy lasers are good for rendering them useless though.

LOL.....Once the "new" wears off and the (usually) one guy that keeps it up to snuff in a podunk PD/SD either gets bored or quits they become inoperative.

The local SD had a armored car, the one time they really needed it they could not get it started because the guy that kept it up retired.

 

[Moonglow]

The police state is alive and well.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Deliver to a guy that sells drones and a modified delivery vehicle to police. Storage box for drone is about 3' SQ or a little smaller. Quikr to deploy that a chopper and probably cheaper.