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Costs and Consequences of Arming America's Law Enforcement with Combat Equipment

Mark P. DenbeauxJeremy DackDakota GallivanLucas MorganJared SteppJosh Wirtshafter

出版	Seton Hall University School of Law Center for Policy & Research, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pgwyrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This report presents the first systematic review of the role of the federal government in the distribution of combat weapons throughout the United States, also revealing there is a lack of training and control of the equipment once received. More than a year in the making, the report details the problems in quelling unrest in American cities: first, the conflict between employing law enforcement versus combat techniques and equipment; and second, the decisions to mobilize traditional law enforcement entities versus using the state National Guard. The report reveals the following: There are 12 different federal agencies supplying combat weaponry to local communities. These 12 agencies are spread throughout three different departments, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice (DOJ). In fact, DOJ alone has four different programs ; The agencies provide billions of dollars of brand new equipment, paid for by the federal government ; This equipment is so widely distributed to so many different local organizations that it is not possible to inventory the equipment or its current location.