Obama orders review of police militarization
As debates swirl about the “militarization of police,” President Barack Obama has ordered a review of programs enabling state and local law enforcement to buy military equipment, a senior administration official said Saturday.
The decision follows public criticism of the recent use of such assets — including armored vehicles, high-tech weaponry and stun grenades — in Ferguson, Missouri, where police have faced off with protesters ever since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown.
August 24th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
Classic move in the politician’s handbook. So a “review”, or a “study”, or a congressional “investigation”. Bottom line is that nothing changes, nothing is rolled back and the public is….
look! squirrel!
August 24th, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Rise of the warrior cop already reviewed this issue. Action needs to be taken
August 24th, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Something else of which he wasn’t aware? Like the fact that some our Border Patrol is NOT on the border, but running checkpoints many miles from there where the rights of U.S. citizens are routinely violated. I guess he didn’t know that DHS purchased 1.6 BILLION rounds of ammo either? That certainly isn’t being used “to protect the States against invasion”, one of his FEW duties according to Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.
August 25th, 2014 at 9:19 am
To be fair Ron, it’s quite possible that the President wasn’t aware of this, or much anything else he didn’t feel was important.
Also I’m sure the admin will find some way to use this to push for gun control. Because when you look into police misbehavior, clearly punishing non-cops is the way to go.
Course if your rhetoric about police militarization is sloppy you’ll have to defend why you should have an EBR but the cops can’t.