- NPR obtained data from the Pentagon on every military item sent to local, state and federal agencies through the Pentagon's Law Enforcement Support Office from 2006 through April 23, 2014. The counties that the items were shipped to, a description of each, and the amount the Pentagon paid for them. http://www.npr.org/2014/09/02/342494225/mraps-and-bayonets-what-we-know-about-the-pentagons-1033-program 28 comments politics
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- The Pentagon gave local cops nearly 12,000 bayonets over the past 8 years - Vox http://www.vox.com/2014/9/3/6101895/charts-police-militarization-1033-program-obama-administration 113 comments
- Rand Paul: It’s Time To Demilitarize the Police https://reason.com/2020/07/21/rand-paul-its-time-to-demilitarize-the-police/ 43 comments
- Documents Reveal the Fearmongering Local Cops Use to Score Military Gear From the Pentagon – Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/new-documents-reveal-fearmongering-local-cops-use-score-military-gear-pentagon 33 comments
- The Making of the Warrior Cop – Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-warrior-cops-police-militarization-urban-shield 28 comments
- Don’t “Defund the Police.” Reimagine the police. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dont-defund-the-police-reimagine-the-police/2020/06/11/9d827cd0-abe6-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html 25 comments
- Does military equipment lead police officers to be more violent? We did the research. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/30/does-military-equipment-lead-police-officers-to-be-more-violent-we-did-the-research/ 21 comments
- Trump issues executive order to re-militarize the police – ThinkProgress https://thinkprogress.org/jeff-sessions-rescinds-restrictions-on-police-using-military-equipment-3c5e283be33d/ 12 comments
- Trump Is Sending Military Weapons to the Police. Lawmakers Are Trying to Stop Him. – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/06/ndaa-police-militarization-george-floyd-brian-schatz/ 6 comments
- GitHub - datahoarder/leso_1033: Data from the Pentagon's surplus-equipment-to-local-law-enforcement program https://github.com/datahoarder/leso_1033 1 comment
- Dallas Shooting: In An Apparent First, Police Used A Bomb Robot To Kill : The Two-Way : NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/08/485262777/for-the-first-time-police-used-a-bomb-robot-to-kill 0 comments
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