Ferguson shooting: US police armed with 93,763 new machine guns

Ferguson shooting: US police armed with 93,763 new machine guns

The militarisation of police departments across America has escalated exponentially in the years since 9/11

If Ferguson, Missouri, looks like a war zone, that may be because its police force is armed to the teeth with military equipment. In photographs from this week’s protests, officers can be seen toting assault rifles, wearing gas masks and body armour loaded with extra ammunition magazines, and riding around in mine-resistant armoured personnel carriers.

And with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wound down, much of the military’s surplus equipment has been handed to domestic law enforcement agencies.

According to a recent report by theNew York Times, since 2006 US police departments have collectively acquired 93,763 machine guns; 432 mine-resistant trucks; more than 500 aircraft; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night vision gear; and hundreds of thousands of ammunition magazines, all supplied via a Department of Defence programme.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-police-armed-wi...

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on August 15, 2014 at 11:21am

Who ARE these People that "police" Us like an army???  Why do They make such poor behavior choices?

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