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[div style="font-size:+1;font-weight:bold"]Military hand-me-downs: US police getting leftover armored trucks from Iraq
American law enforcement agencies have received 165 MRAPs 18 ton, armored vehicles with gun turrets this year, according to an AP investigation. Military officials say police have filed requests for 731 more, but none are available.
Its armored. Its heavy. Its intimidating. And its free, Craig Apple, the sheriff of Albany County, told AP.
http://rt.com/usa/us-police-mraps-iraq-251/
Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)You only have to eat two burritos and that vehicle will run out of gas first.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)Because law enforcement is supposed to intimidate the citizenry. Not sure what happened to "serve and protect" . . .
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Marr
(20,317 posts)This place has turned very authoritarian in recent decades.