The federal government has doled out more than $18 billion in surplus military equipment to local police departments over the last five years with little or no oversight. That’s the conclusion of a ...

HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn - Tension is still high in Ferguson, Missouri after an officer shot and killed an unarmed man Friday night, but the lasting image of police, dressed and armed like military ...

Local police departments will soon have access to grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons and other surplus U.S. military gear after President Donald Trump signed an order Monday reviving a Pentagon ...

There has been an ongoing debate about how local law enforcement departments are becoming more militarised. A controversial federal program allows surplus equipment to get recycled or rather passed ...

The Pentagon has been criticized for “militarizing” local police departments by handing out surplus equipment. Now it turns out that some local public school police forces are getting equipment, too.

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