Quote:Yes the excess equipment is just further proof we waste entirely to much money in the "defense department", but that's another subject.

 

As for the wrong people for the job I'm not sure, It's a tough job and I think the majority of police are good people. But when you train and police force there's a "war on drugs" and you equip them like an army not a police force, you're going to get war like behavior.

It's also proof that we are winding down the war in Afghanistan, and have gotten out of Iraq.  Surplus equipment doesn't just evaporate when that happens.  We left a lot of it behind in Iraq, but if there were contracts already underway to manufacture additional equipment, something had to be done with that gear.  The feds are literally forcing this stuff on local law enforcement as a contingency in getting federal funding.  They don't want to be stuck with it either. 

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