thank them both.

I don't want my local police departments to have as well as the nuts in our society. Sometimes that line between the nuts and the LEO's is a blurred one I might add.

have a field day with that phrase. They'll infer or come right out and say Obama is sissyfying the police force. I can't wait for the faux outrage.

one was forsaken for the other..


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2015/04/police_warriors_or_community_g055130.php

Just feed them nonsense about the angel Micheal 'guarding' the gates of sealed Eden with that big-ass sword that God gave him THAT'S ON FUCK FIRE, just for good measure.
they'll shut up right quick...

Besides, cops are supposed to guard our rights. Like our Right to Public Assembly. Too fucking bad for them if they haven't been doing their jobs correctly and need a federal reprimand.

Its very symbolic to me... they shouldn't dress like they are invading Iraq. They are cops, not marines.

wrong in Ferguson MO and it was not the protesters. If they look like an army they are probably acting like and army.

are now expected to be militaristic. I figure it was Cheney's idea as a step toward a military dictatorship. At least, that is the sort of person I see him being.

Get the government to buy new to replace the slightly used given to the LEOs. To the LEOs, the first taste is free, get them addicted to the gear, neighboring police forces that didn't apply, get jealous and have to keep up with the Jones's. Soon they are buying from the dealer, new equipment and expendables and parts and maintenance...

And all the while the MIC is raking in the cash.

This is a great policy!

So why is the guy who has been an otherwise pretty good president advocating a lemon like the TPP? When a policy like this could add to his positive legacy, he risks overshadowing this legacy with another one which will be terrible for Americans.

like all other members of the human species is flawed and makes mistakes.

And when someone we respect and honor is going in the wrong direction, it is up to us to point it out, oppose it and try to set him right.

What in the fuck would they need those for?

Glad to hear this bit of news but we got a long way to go.

And flash-bangs, probably. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they just "happen" to have some HE and WP grenades lying around.

-- Mal

Which supplies military equipment to a whole host of state and local government entities, including police departments and schools, free of charge, on the condition that they use it within 1 year of receipt or they have to return it.

http://fcnl.org/resources/newsletter/sept14/how_tanks_got_to_main_street/

Here's a way to work to begin to change the program:

Template letter to President Obama thanking him and encouraging him to support the bipartisan Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act.

Template letter to your representative (plug in your zip code and the next page will populate with your representative and a template letter)

"The list includes grenade launchers, tracked armored vehicles, armed aircraft, bayonets, and guns and ammunition of .50 caliber or higher."

Is there a police department that asked for grenade launchers?

Who WOULDN'T want some tracked armored vehicles? Parallel parking, no problem!

what abt CONCEALED FLAMETHROWERS
I definitely see a need in this country for people to be equipped with this vital piece of weaponry
especially law enforcement, since they always show such great wisdom and restraint in performing acts of violence and can definitely be trusted in all circumstances.

Rare, well-done, napalmed?

the second amendment makes that okay too

Just imagine: It's two in the morning, the snow's been falling since yesterday at noon and you have to get to work. You could shovel for six hours, blow snow for two...or whip out your trusty RPO-50 and clear the whole street so quick you could order a Domino's Pizza before you go outside and be done before it arrives.

different folks different strokes

4th of July parade. I did wonder if the armored vehicle might come in handy is case of a forest fire but do not know enough about military equipment to know. Also some of our parks have old military vehicles in them for the visitors to see. Maybe we are going to have a new one?

Imagine if the Andy Griffith Show were made today. Sheriff Taylor would be famous because he "don't even carry a loaded grenade launcher."

how we going to fight all these well armed groups we have down in TX since they passed that open-carry law!

I think our local sheriff's office needs a howitzer.

I agree with the tracked vehicles, too hard on the roads especially for traffic stops.

Grenade launchers bad, sniper rifles and m4 ok for crowd control and police.

Now if he can cut military spending so that the armed forces don't end up having a surplus of vehicles we'd be set.

he's doing the right thing.

We knew back then that would be STUPID.

People on the streets of this country are not the "enemy."

Whatever will they do when ISIS rolls into Borden County, Texas (pop 641) or Quitman County, Georgia (pop 2.404) or Arthur County, Nebraska (pop 404) and their police do not have grenade launchers and tracked armored vehicles to defend their freedoms???

Just not from the federal government. The President can't stop them from buying it elsewhere or otherwise possessing such items.

is doing, things that the "left" has screamed about and which are now becoming a reality and this board could give less than a natural flying f*ck about.

But when braying instead of affecting change is the only goal, I guess this shouldn't come as a surprise.

Create more if where more of it is needed,

What's more essential is to get the military ATTITUDE out of police departments. Citizens ought not seen as an opposing force.

The exclusion of tracked vehicles for wheeled vehicles seems particularly pointless. The US military has pushed wheeled vehicles over tracked vehicles for decades and from the debate emerged the Stryker, which IIRC is the vehicle we saw deployed in Ferguson MO. What about that vehicle doesn't scream militarization??