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How "militarized" is your local PD?

Old Sep 8, 2014 | 10:33 PM
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Old Sep 8, 2014 | 10:46 PM
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Looks like for our county, they bought like 20 night vision goggles at 6 grand a pop. A gajillion semi auto rifles and like 2000 pairs of EXTREME cold weather boots lol. And tons of other useless junk that my tax dollars payed for.
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 02:56 AM
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Holy freaking crap. Hello time to call for a giant *** yard sale to fix our deficits. So much of this stuff could be purchased by citizens for hunting, fishing, work vehicles, flood lights, etc. sure anti tank stuff not so much, but close to half could be repurposed.

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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 03:03 AM
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Not much yet. Looks like they have only bought guns. 11- .45 Cal auto pistols, 4- 5.62mm rifles, and 2- 7.62mm rifles.
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 09:29 AM
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harris county of houston tx has 26 pages of crap. we can use it all though. some of it seemed overpriced, and available from walmart cheaper.
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 10:47 AM
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^^ how about that aircraft fixed wing lol
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 09:54 PM
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Los Angeles needs 540 pairs of snow shoes???
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 10:18 PM
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146 pages of wasted money..
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 10:19 PM
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Los Angeles needs 540 pairs of snow shoes???
Lol.. They need it for all the snow. It happens every 5k years.
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Old Sep 9, 2014 | 10:51 PM
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$500k on a mine-resistant vehicle, wtf
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