Your stimulus dollars at work… providing heavy weapons for cops


Turn on the money spigot and watch the police clamp down on your freedom

Radley Balko at the Agitator points out this piece. And that is just Texas.

It's not just Texas though.

Sparks, Nevada wants $600,000 to purchase a “live fire” house its SWAT team can shoot up, and another $420,000 for a SWAT armored vehicle.

Pleasanton, California wants $250,000 to buy a vehicle for its SWAT team.

Gary, Indiana wants $750,000 for a host of “modernization” upgrades to its police department, including “sub-automatic machine guns” and an “armored vehicl” [sic].

Hampton, Virginia wants a whopping $3.5 million for “Air Tactical Unit Support and Equipment,” which I’m pretty sure means they want a sweet helicopter for the SWAT team.

Ottawa, Illinois (population: 18,307) wants $60,000 to purchase, among other things, five “tactical entry rifles.”

Do you feel safer yet?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - February 10, 2009 at 02:50 PM  Tag


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