Small Town Police Are Tooling Up With Elite Military Hardware

Friday, August 2, 2013
By Paul Martin

Line between police and troops is now a blur

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Aug 2, 2013

An Associated Press investigation has found that small town police departments are essetnailly grabbing whatever elite military equipment they can lays their hands on, in a move that is blurring the line between law enforcement and military service in the US.

The little known scheme, dubbed the “1033 Program” when passed by congress in 1997, was slated to bolster police departments in order to allow them to more effectively fight the “war on drugs” and to combat “terrorism”.

The program has seen police become equipped with surplus supplies of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and even grenade launchers, all to be used against US citizens.
In 2011 alone, police departments across the nation received more than $500 million of military grade equipment.

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