A rapidly expanding Pentagon program that distributes used military equipment to local police departments —many of them small-town forces —puts battlefield-grade weaponry in the hands of cops at an unprecedented rate.
Through its little-known “1033 program,” the Department of Defense gave away nearly $500 million worth of leftover military gear to law enforcement in fiscal year 2011 —a new record for the program and a dramatic rise over past years’ totals, including the $212 million in equipment distributed in 2010.
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Necessary evil for Corporatism, which we are now fully engaged. The Political Class has divided the population into ‘Special Interest Groups’ that compete for limited resources controlled by them.