The Dept. Of Defense’s Excess Property Program ‒ or 1033 Program ‒ has given police departments across the country surplus war machines and arms over many years.
This equipment came out on full display during the Ferguson, Missouri riots and caused many to question the excessive force and seemingly unnecessary use of weaponry.
Several police departments have been trying to give these war machines back to the Pentagon, but to their dismay the Pentagon won’t take them back.
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So why is the DOD refusing to take the equipment back?
According Rob Davis, the mayor pro tem of Davis, CA one city that is trying to give the equipment back, it’s because the Pentagon is using the police dept’s as storage.
“It’s a low-cost storage method for them,” stated Davis. “They’re dumping these vehicles on us and saying, ‘Hey, these are still ours, but you have to maintain them for us’.”
If this isn’t obvious…we have a failing, out of control communist government who’s using local police departments as their storage facilities for war machines until the day comes when they finally collapse everything and these machines will be used to quell the populace.
Our economy is on its final legs. We are printing money like crazy just to pay the bills, which is indicative of the final stages before hyperinflation. They know it’s coming, we know it’s coming, but they are far more prepared.
But the program does more than fill police departments’ arsenals, according to Kathryn Blake, secretary for the Iowa fire marshal’s office.
“Everybody only sees the weapons,” Blake told KCRG. “What they’re not seeing is, in the state of Iowa, we have a couple of boats for water emergencies. We have ATVs, office equipment. They’ve received computers, filing cabinets, you name it.”
Police forces wishing to return their equipment must go through their state offices, like Blake’s in Iowa, and cannot directly contact the Pentagon. However, the state offices can’t help because the Defense Department had closed the portion of its website that allows police departments to request returns until October 1. Blake says she is overwhelmed by the responsibility, which is only part of her job description.
“For an additional duty, this has caused me a lot of gray hair,” she said. “Last year this time, I’m just trying to keep my program moving. All of the sudden, I’m defending this program.”
Ursula Kroener – a police spokeswoman for the San Diego school district police department who is trying to return an 18-ton MRAP – was told that the Pentagon halted returns partly because so many law enforcement agencies are clamoring to return their equipment, Mother Jones reported.
Totally unconscionable!!!!
Good. The police are not our enemy. Obama is. There may come a day when our local police are the only people standing between us an the tyranny of Obama’s federalized police. I’m glad they have the weaponry.
Tell the Pentagon to get ——!
The way things are going in this country they need to give them to law abiding citizens to help them out
God Bless America
we should use It.It belongs to the UNITED STATES OF ANERICA
I bet the administrations private police force, the DHS, will take everything. They have been buying billions of bullets to keep them out of the hands of the civilian population.
They are going to need them when Obama has his take over with his Muslim army.
Obama wants then to have them. Don’t even want to imagine why.
They better keep it they are going to need it when Obama gets his war on Americans going good.
Some perspective here…
According to Edward Stringham, of the NY Daily News, although official statistics have historically been scant, we now know that police killed 1,100 Americans in 2014 and 476 Americans in the first five months of 2015. Given that America has roughly 765,000 sworn police officers, that means the police-against-citizen kill rate is more than 145 per 100,000.
The police kill rate is nearly 30 times that of the average citizen, yet somehow people still call for disarming citizens and say nothing about the police
Every murderer believes the violence he is wielding is “good violence.” M$#%&!@* murderers mimic and find their inspiration in the official wars we wage as a nation. Take away the m$#%&!@*ive public relations machinery that surrounds these wars and the deaths they cause are just as cruel, just as wrong. The abstract “enemy” dead, in every case, turn out to be human beings, who deserved to live.