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Amy-Strange

(854 posts) Mon Jun 8, 2020, 06:17 PM Jun 2020

Pentagon has funneled billions in military vehicles, weapons to local police

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Pentagon has funneled billions in military vehicles, weapons to local police

The high plains and rugged mountains of Wyoming aren’t exactly synonymous with high crime rates or modern warfare, much less the kinds of mass protests currently roiling the country. But police agencies in the sparsely populated state have been arming themselves to the teeth in recent years.

Just 80,000 people reside in sprawling Natrona County, home of the city of Casper, yet the county sheriff’s office has scored three military-style armored trucks since 1997 worth a combined $195,000, plus a $126,000 cargo carrier. The sheriff’s office in nearby Campbell County, which has just 48,000 residents, helped itself to a $658,000 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, or MRAP, in 2013 and a $733,000 version the following year. In the capital city of Cheyenne, police ordered a pair of MRAPs worth a combined $1.42 million.

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Pentagon has funneled billions in military vehicles, weapons to local police (Original Post) Amy-Strange Jun 2020 OP

Off the military budget is so bloated that they can procon Jun 2020 #1

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1. Off the military budget is so bloated that they can

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Mon Jun 8, 2020, 07:40 PM

Jun 2020

give away all these SOTA military equipment, maybe it's time to make some seriously deep cuts to their slush fund.

How many warehouses are already stocked to the rafters with all kinds of gear that will never likely be used! How's many storage depots are crammed with row after row of military vehicles of every sort?

And yet the budget busters in DC demand more funding every year while bleeding the taxpayers into poverty. This has to stop. Militarization of local police has to stop. The cops should not make routine traffic stops decked out like assault troops in Afghanistan.

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