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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts) Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:10 AM Nov 2013

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This is really F*#@ed up

[div style="font-size:+1;font-weight:bold"]Military hand-me-downs: US police getting leftover armored trucks from Iraq

American law enforcement agencies have received 165 MRAPs – 18 ton, armored vehicles with gun turrets – this year, according to an AP investigation. Military officials say police have filed requests for 731 more, but none are available.

“It’s armored. It’s heavy. It’s intimidating. And it’s free,” Craig Apple, the sheriff of Albany County, told AP.

http://rt.com/usa/us-police-mraps-iraq-251/

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This is really F*#@ed up (Original Post) tk2kewl Nov 2013 OP

Those things are wonderful! Turbineguy Nov 2013 #1

But they're intimidating. enlightenment Nov 2013 #2

Lovely. (sarcasm) n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #3

"Intimidating"? Since when are the cops supposed to intimidate the public? Marr Nov 2013 #4

... Scuba Nov 2013 #5

Turbineguy

(37,339 posts)

1. Those things are wonderful!

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:13 AM

Nov 2013

You only have to eat two burritos and that vehicle will run out of gas first.

enlightenment

(8,830 posts)

2. But they're intimidating.

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:20 AM

Nov 2013

Because law enforcement is supposed to intimidate the citizenry. Not sure what happened to "serve and protect" . . .

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

3. Lovely. (sarcasm) n/t

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:28 AM

Nov 2013

-Laelth

Marr

(20,317 posts)

4. "Intimidating"? Since when are the cops supposed to intimidate the public?

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:31 AM

Nov 2013

This place has turned very authoritarian in recent decades.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

5. ...

Reply to tk2kewl (Original post)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 11:42 AM

Nov 2013

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