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Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police

Posted by Soulskill on from the bazookas-for-all dept.

v3rgEz writes: Wondering how the St. Louis County Police ended up armed with surplus military gear, and what equipment other departments have? A FOIA request at MuckRock has turned up every item given to local law enforcement under the Pentagon's 1022 program, the mechanism by which local law enforcement can apply for surplus or used military gear.

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  1. Re:No by diamondmagic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Military surplus makes such tyranny especially cheap, cheaper than it would otherwise be. Also something about the law of demand.

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  2. Update on the mule by Firethorn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Okay, had a brain fart - I look up the rifle by NSN, and forget to check the mule, merely guessing.

    Well, it's a Kawasaki mule model KAF400A per the NSN*

    Going by the state that I remember us operating them in, I'd guess that the thing was probably a non-functioning worn out POS by the time the military lets go of it.

    *National Stock Number.

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  3. Re:No by JDAustin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When you give the police weapons of war then they will find someone to go to war with. Unfortunately, that is the general populace.

  4. Re:No by hodagacz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Private citizens are under far more accountability and surveillance than law enforcement.

  5. Forget what they got, look what they *DO* by hsthompson69 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.cato.org/publicatio...

    Radley Balko has been writing about the militarization of our police for years.

    This map of botched police raids is especially scary:

    http://www.cato.org/raidmap

    Frankly, I'd rather have my law abiding neighbors armed than the cops.