Jun 8, 2014 ... Former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in the armories of local police departments,...
Aug 28, 2017 ... WASHINGTON — Police departments will now have access to military surplus equipment ... In addition to the prohibitions on certain military surplus gear, he added restrictions on ... surplus equipment to federal, state and local police agencies fighting the drug war. ... War Gear Flows to Police Departments.
Aug 27, 2017 ... Sessions announces restoration of military gear transfer program ... The decision to restore the flow of military weaponry to civilian law enforcement was the latest ... “The militarization of our law enforcement,” Rand said in a statement, “is due ... that police departments had a guardian, not warrior, mentality.
Apr 22, 2018 ... The amount of military gear sent to local police has declined this year ... Trump executive order fails to boost flow of military gear to local police departments .... night-vision sniper scopes and other war-fighting equipment was...
Aug 14, 2014 ... A June article in the New York Times by Matt Apuzzo (“War Gear Flows to Police Departments”) reported that “during the Obama administration,...
Aug 21, 2014 ... Law enforcement agencies apply for specific equipment through the Defense ... Public opinion on police using military equipment varies with context, .... New York Times, "War Gear Flows to Police Departments," June 8, 2014.
Aug 11, 2015 ... Exclusive: Pentagon reclaims vehicles meant for war one year after troops ... “The Ferguson police department officially has two Humvees on...
May 10, 2016 ... Despite public outcry, new federal data shows that 2014 and 2015 were peak years for shipments of surplus military gear to local police...
May 19, 2015 ... President Obama's new ban on military equipment for local law enforcement is about ... dressed for battle, everything starts to look like a war—including the ... the flow of military equipment and tactics to local law enforcement.
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Congress keeps the gear flowing; as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wind down, the .... annually to fund and equip domestic police departments with military hardware ...... the 1033 and DHS grant programs supplies a steady flow of orders for.
Aug 27, 2017 ... Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police ... restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies ... over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.
Aug 18, 2014 ... Armored vehicles, tear gas, full combat gear, rifles — the military ... Now the vehicles are being passed down to police departments. ... than actual soldiers typically wear while on patrol in active war zones. ..... The administration eventually stopped the flow of heavy military-grade equipment — such as tanks...
May 11, 2016 ... Despite calls to end the militarization of police, new report says "2014 and ... up on state-of-the-art war machines, tactical gear, guns, and explosives. ... peak years" for local law enforcement agencies receiving military gear.
Jun 25, 2014 ... Any yet, every year, billions of dollars' worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments.
Sep 2, 2017 ... (Courtesy of Lynnwood Police Department) ... Reagan's war on drugs in 1991, more than $30.2 million in surplus ... However, the data also shows that the flow of military-grade firearmsto law enforcement in Washington has...
Apr 8, 2015 ... Research on Law Enforcement and Racial Conflict, JOURNALIST ..... Matt Apuzzo, War Gear Flows to Police Departments, N.Y. TIMES (Jun.
Aug 17, 2014 ... Many police and sheriff's departments have gear fit for an Army brigade. ... But the flow of equipment has increased considerably since the military .... based ITT/ITT Exelis and New Hampshire-based L-3 Insight Warrior...
Aug 14, 2014 ... At the root of the problem is a country coming home from war, forced over a ... A member of the St. Louis County Police Department points his ... of $4.3 billion in military equipment to flow to police forces throughout the country,...
Aug 28, 2017 ... The flow of news obscures some smaller, but significant events, such as Donald ... The gear recycled through this program, which would otherwise be ... to ensure that police departments had a guardian, not warrior, mentality.
Aug 15, 2014 ... Police officers fortified with an array of military-type equipment stand guard in ... flow of military-grade equipment to the nation's police departments has .... “Last of the Blue and Gray” about the final survivors of the Civil War.
From the 1920s until World War II, some police departments in the United States adopted the Thompson submachine gun, or tommy gun, a weapon that was...
Aug 22, 2014 ... The increased use of military equipment by local law enforcement had its beginnings in the Reagan-era war on drugs in the 1980s.
Jul 7, 2014 ... Police departments in Missouri, and around the country, have been ... claims that the flow of vehicles and gear from war zones is breeding a...
Sep 10, 2014 ... Police dressed for battle in Ferguson (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ... war zone: officers decked out in camouflaged combat gear, some of them arriving ... Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act to restrict the flow of surplus military...
Any yet, every year, billions of dollars' worth of military equipment flows from the federal government to state and local police departments. Departments use...
Aug 15, 2014 ... The disproportionate impact of police militarization upon poor and minority ... hardware, particularly as vehicles and gear flow to police departments from the Pentagon after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. One step...