Copyrighted Image? DMCA | It's bad enough that police departments have been armed with military-grade weaponry and other Pentagon cast-offs, which they use against citizens (especially people of color). Now a thorough and jarring investigative piece on Fusion.net has revealed that local police departments are losing these weapons at an alarming rate. Losing them as in, "duh, can't find them anywhere." Fusion reports that 184 state and local police departments have been suspended from the Pentagon's trickle-down weapons program for losing weapons like M14 and M16 assault rifles, .45-caliber pistols and shotguns. Dunderheaded police departments have even managed to misplace two Humvees. Two Humvees! How do you misplace a Humvee? |
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