Does anyone want their local law enforcement to have an MRAP? The 1033 program is an abomination on the freedom of the people. Did you know that there are over 50,000 SWAT raids every year? And that statistic is from 2013. This makes me wonder how we ever had the rule of law prior to the first SWAT team in Philadelphia in 1964.
David DeGerolamo
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Ratcliffe introduces bill to reverse Obama’s executive order on surplus military equipment
Ratcliffe is planning on pushing his bill, the Protecting Lives Using Surplus Equipment Act of 2016, through the U.S. House of Representatives as a companion bill to Republican Sen. Pat Toomey’s Lifesaving Gear for Police Act, which Toomey introduced to the Senate the week before.
“What the executive order does is it puts restrictions on local police from obtaining federal gear through the existing 1033 Program,” Ratcliffe said in an interview on Friday. “My bill does not create any new programs, it just preserves an existing program and frankly one that doesn’t cost any federal money.”
In this day and age I confess to mixed emotions on the idea. On the one hand local police are WAY over militarized when they should be Constitutionalized. On the other hand if we can elect Sheriffs who are committed to the Constitution and the preservation of it such items may come in handy to repel abuses.
on a side note the next class at nowhereville will be how to hot wire a mrap 😉
Interesting….do these have GPS trackers in them? Might be a short ride.
well toss those on the steps on the way out of the lot . not hard to find or disable either
better still leave one active and park it in the good little republicans drive