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Aug 12, 2015

MILITARY TRUCKS * USA: Sheriffs asking for their cities

* DC - Armored trucks to wage war on marijuana

-- If you're going to wage war on drugs, you need to be outfitted like a warrior. That seems to be the rationale behind hundreds of police department requests for armored trucks submitted to the Pentagon between 2012 and 2014... The requests, unearthed in a FOIA request by Mother Jones magazine, shed light on how the war on drugs has directly contributed to the militarization of local police forces in recent years... Police departments can request surplus military gear from the Pentagon through the Department of Defense's 1033 program, which doles out hundreds of millions of dollars in military goods to cops each year...
(Photo by Arian Schuessler/Globe Gazette via AP: Police officers in Mason City, Iowa, get a look at the department's new mine resistant-ambush-protected vehicle on loan from the Department of Defense in April 2014)   --  Washington, DC, USA - The Washington Post, by Christopher Ingraham - August 11, 2015

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