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Mapping The Militarization Of America's Police Force Since 2006
A few months ago we warned about the SWATification of America, mapping the surplus military gear by state. Having already documented America's conversation to a turnkey totalitarian banana republic (confirmed over a year later by Edward Snowden), we note the following six charts from The NY Times that show the spread of military-style equipment - including aircraft, vehicles, body armor, grenade launchers and assault rifles - since the creation of the free Defense Department program in the 1990s.
The Summary:
The Details...
Click here for full interactive NY Times charts
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Which begs the question: just who is America's police force - and by extension the Obama administration, which is behind this quiet militarization of local police forces with weapons that would normally be seen in a warzone - preparing for war against?
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This is Occupy part 2.
Oh just STFU with this tin foil hat, "they're gonna drone us" liberal media bullshit!!
What is this!? Fucking CNN??
And what about the "Militarization of the Populace" for that matter?
So get over it
Thank god we gave a Nobel peace prize to the looter-in-chief.
Remember the good ole' days when the British had muskets and the patriots had muskets? Me neither but back then at least you had a fighting chance. Those days are long gone or am I just suffering from Panopticon-ism?
You're fine.
If you really don't get by now what is going to happen in this country in the near future (within next 2 years 5 months ),then you cannot fix stupid . Also if you have young children you need to start thinking about getting the fuck out of Amerika whilst you still can , because they are going to turn this place into the killing fields.
Thats quite a specific timeframe, please enlighten us
I'm guessing he's referring to the end of the Obama Presidency. I don't follow his logic particularly though.
Everyone is looking at this the wrong way. This is an opportunity. These weapons are now available. Go out and get some!
Join the sheriffs posse, go drinking with the cops or weekend warriors and infiltrate their ranks. Hell, most of this stuff is available on the open market, and if not, the black market.
Time to move to South Dakota me thinks.
Looking at the last map I think the less militarized States are New Mexico and Nebraska. You cold end up in swatland in South Dakota.
Yeah, for a lot of reasons you don't want to be in South Dakota. Especially not West River. The NE corner, near North Dakota and Minnesota, isn't too bad. But there's a lot of vicious corruption and violence anywhere near any of the reservations.
The British regulars had muskets, while the patriots had rifles. Rifles where superior technology compared to muskets. Slower to fire, but far more accurate. "Those days" never existed as you describe it.
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Did I say I was for occupy? I should have stated that this is a far left push to again create chaos. Same playbook as was used in occupy wall street. Hence the occupy part 2 comment.
Hey 101, you should have ignored his comment anyway. I mean, did it even make sense in the context of your comment, or in the context of anything? Arming of the populace (his depiction of militarization) is protected by the 2nd Amendment. The militarization of the police is Unconstitutional.
"And what about the "Militarization of the Populace" for that matter?"
I look at it as a GOOD thing. I actually enjoy hearing my neighbors outside, keeping their marksmanship skills well-honed.
If people arming themselves is "militarization", then
Correction " Neutered " Militarized Populace. The Bloomberg conficationist are doing gods work.
These here munitions been brought to you neighborhood by the paranoid creeps who approved the Patriot Act < in case you didn't know >
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/09/12/police-militarization-in-the-decade-following-911/
Inner City is NOT poverty induced.
It CREATES THE POVERTY.
INNER CITY is the absolute reversion to animal behavior.
The same laws found in the jungle apply there.
It is a self-perpetuating culture.
The ludicrous behavior is an abomination. There is no RIGHT to act so WRONG.
And it is not CIVIL. To say it is civil is to say that ISIS's horrific behavior is understandable.
And you cannot treat INNER CITY WITH CIVILITY. It doesn't comprehend.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL......IT IS NOT RACE BASED.
The Jewish and Italian Mafia, the Nazi Germans had the same culture. Isis, Saddam, Stalin. Mao.
Complete lack of morality....and in the name of............whatever they want to say at the time.
But really it is power over the weak and defenseless.
The nazis also creates inner cities and ghettoes and then the people in those ghettoes for their own behaviour.
Do you see the contradiction you made? You said the inner city creates the poverty. And then said it is the fault of the people living in the inner city that they create the poverty and the animal behaviour necessary within poverty. It's a vicious and absurd circle you created yourself.
The answer out is, who induced inner cities? And who profits from it economically, politically, etc.?
You forgot to say 'negro'
Is racism really so bad in America when black people are barred from restaurants in S Korea?
http://tinyurl.com/k5uhx6s
what a ridiculou s- its one or two places barring "Africans" because of ebola. Maybe not wise or politically correct - but it is hardly state policy and regards a specific concern over a disease people are getting paranoid about.
Are you dishonest or stupid?
Can I refuse to rent my condo to them under that argument? That's brilliant!
I got $50 on "stupid". I've never been treated so well anywhere (even Japan) as I've been in Seoul. Been there 8 times; lived for a month. And elder lady helped me (a strapping young man) carry my shipments up a grass hill onto a bus... in general they all seem very kind.
My money has always been on the elderley Korean lady on the grassy knoll.
Who cares what S. Korea does? It's not your country and it's not done here. Go tell S. Korea what they can and cannot do in their country. If you're offended because you're African go back to Africa and wage war with S. Korea insist you get accepted with hugs and kissed and be loved by them because you're African.
In the listing of military supplies, there is not one high water vehicle, the trucks you need when you have to travel through flooded streets. After Hurricane Katrina, there were comments about how come the Louisiana National Guard had no high water trucks in use and where were they, in Iraq. They sure were. In flooded areas, trucks that can travel on flooded roadways are worth their weight in gold, to transport residents out of danger and to deliver supplies and rescue personnel. Naturally, since these trucks help citizens instead of intimidating them, Obama and his NWO handlers feel high water trucks are useless.
Most standard military vehicles can ford 60". I've personally driven an HMMWV in water that was up to my chin as I sat in the seat. If the water is higher than that, get a boat.
Double post.
This shit has been going on since S.W.A.T. which first aired in 1975 and going on all the way back since The Red Shield's Civil War on Americans to "free the slaves." Even though they were in the slave trade.
F Hollywood and F TV with their SWAT and other BS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sss51tFfsW4
SWAT protecting Hollywood backlots in one stupid episode.
TPTB in NY and DC will not rest until the US Gov passes the bill to have small arms ownership and sales fall under the UN Agreement. Which will become the backdoor to gutting the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms -- by playing the Procedure game.
When US gun owners are all registered (per UN requirement), that is when they can and will come for the guns of people who will be deemed "dangerous" and "potentially dangerous": (A) real nuts & cooks (as the pretext), plus (B) highly armed dissenters and trouble makers (libertarians, Tea Party types) -- with a deliberately fuzzy line often drawn between the two.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... And I'm all out of bubblegum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso
Love that movie!
Anyone know where I can git a pair of the special sunglasses? I wanna be able to see the Administration aliens coming.
Plenty of high value targets to steal, vandalize, sabotage, and destroy.
Just ask ISIS.
These dumb shits are really only militarizing resistance forces when push comes to shove.
"These dumb shits are really only militarizing resistance forces when push comes to shove."
Do you think that -- at some level -- that is what they are actually planning for? If, say... a Foreign Power were to try to take over the US? And I'm not talking "I can see Russia from my house" type of Foreign Power. I'm talking about a different Alien invasion.
They sure as hell have been feeding us endless hours of Aliens, ever since Star Trek, and particularly in recent years. Consider the possibility that Aliens (hybrids) already among us, and potentially acting through an Elite subset of a very cohesive and powerful cultural group. Gives the word "chosen" a different meaning. Something to think about and mull over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAT_BuJAI70
project bluebeam
any aliens you see will be the product of hollyweird.
Up arrowed you because of your icon.
Up arrowed you because of your icon.
Can you blame them? What guy doesn't want to be Mad Max in an MRAP with body armor, night vision and an AR?
What I said!
Except fuck ARs..
Go SKS baby!
And I have both.
And please post any info on what caliber was used in shooting Michael Brown.
I doubt it was a 45 cause his head was still in one piece.
Best guess is a 9mm...
and if it were a .45, doubt he'd need to be holed 8 times.
My sense is that there was no need for a single hole.
It takes about 1 hour to make a SKS full auto ,just saying.
Plus the hefty cost of about... $100 for buying one.
Good fitness plan though, lugging one of those around. Don't forget to clean it every day.
That sure is an abundance of assualt rifles to NY.
Don't they know those things are illegal here?
Lots of armored vehicles on Long Island also, are those to ride to the Hamptons in?
4 out of 6 aint bad, Pimpz! Those damn uparmored Humvees are hard to find and expensive!
Especially with the navigation and park assist with leather package !
I am more worried about the attitudes of the police more than their toys.
Either way this is merely another way to increase the MIC budgets.
Why maintain a 5 year old war toy when you can send it down the line and buy a new one?
pods
Maybe the MIC should just go on a three year lease program and save some fiat while getting all the new toys.
Pods, here is a link that shows some of those attitudes. (Note the second video, 35 sec long, after the raid, it shows the mentality). This raid was supposedly conducted due to Internet activity, prompting the warrant. It was 2 yrs ago, and appears to me to be as much a "live training Op" as serving a warrant. Note the basic appearance of the home upon entry, does not look like a thuggish crack-house.
http://www.courierpress.com/news/local-news/crime/city-seeks-favorable-r...
The MIC is making billions by reducing the military oversupply and pushing it out to domestic police depts/goons. This creation of a domestic standing military for profit is a declaration of WAR against the people. I say riot violently if the US Gov wont strip these goons of the military hardware that they're grossly under qualified to use and abusing on a once-free America. I say fucking riot America!
Agreed. Tear it apart unless freedom is returned.
Not worth saving otherwise.
All we had when i was a kid was a county sheriff. Now these clowns will buy 2 Kia's for a Township and outfit them rocket launchers.
"Township" that means you do not live in America but are a vessel on the high seas under Admiralty law , bet you did not know that.
South central Oregon is the place to be.
Hardly anything there, though.
Wish I was.
No, you don't.
Well, I see a few items I need to add to my shopping list. Middle America seems like the prime location for the provocateurs to get this uncivil war started.
They are also the biggest enablers in the first place of this whole militarization of the PDs because they've long ago abdicated their responsibilites to freedom and liberty as pack mules for the owners. Like electricity they took the path of least resistance in that manner doing what was easy instead of what is right. But that is what happens when community is destroyed and replaced by narcissism and faux self worth via consumerism along with the nonstop beating into the head that they are exceptional because of it.
I'll give you a personal example of what I mean. I was talking with one of my neighbors the other day. Nice lady and all but she starts complaining to me about the condition of one of our neighbor's houses. People that have lived in that neighborhood and community longer than she has. So I asked her if she was planning to move anytime soon and of course the answer was no so I asked why fuck do you care. If that is how you value your neighbors as dollar value to your house that you have no intention of selling what does that tell about how a person sees another human being and how they value people in the first place. I wouldn't call her evil or anything like that they just don't get it..... It is place you sleep and raise kids in first and foremost.
The TPTB have done the math. They know where we are headed. And they know it is inevitable as well.
The average moron hasn't figured it out. Most won't.
Just remove the warning labels from everything and that problem will start to sort itself out.
I'm no fan of having the local police force look like the military, but we also can't have a situation like we had in California a few years back with those two guys who were in full body armor and outgunning the police. The cops had to go to a local gun store to match the firepower of the bank robbers. That's insane.
Two different dynamics:
In the case of your bankrobbers, two guys against a large number of organized cops. I don't care what weapons they had, the organization and tactics of the police are going to overwhelm them in the end.
In the case of the current situation, the cops are becoming the minority. As soon as crowds start to act with organization and tactics, the police can have whatever weapons they want. They are going to be swept away.
Who are the police defending? That is the question on people's minds right now. The answer will determine everything.
As yourself: Whom was the Sheriff of Nottingham "defending"?
Modern day equivalent = Oligarch royalty, against armed roving bands of "Robbin(g) Hood(lum)s"
"Who are the police defending?"
THE CONSTITUTION !
No really just their paychecks and pensions and the lying scum that promised them all of it.
Bullshit.
Don't go for the paycheck if you can't accept some risk.
Bullshit.
kaa1016, I hope they (the cops) had their fucking "Waiting Period" enacted, you know, to keep us safe...
This equipment isn't needed in a civil society with a strong social fabric.
strong social fabric...hmmm, that rings a bell that goes back to before Aldous Huxley day.
We don't see that in Ferguson; the social fabric.
"I have a dream" is definitely "I HAD a dream" thats now turned to nightmare.
Entropy.
the fuck is going on in that part of northern maine?
What do they have to do - prepare to fight Ents or something? Aroostook is potato fields and hundreds of square miles of privately owned forests. The worst thing you face is either a shitty diner breakfast or an angry beaver...of one, or the other variety.
Why the fuck are they gettng heavy up there? The Quebecois illegals working logging and construction jobs all over NE? .Gov never gave a fuck before....
Libertarians/Free State Project types. Nothing terrifies TPTB more than those guys, so in their minds Maine and NH are hotbeds/breeding grounds of domestic terrorists.
Maine, intresting demographics there. NH, free state movement is picking up steam and they are winning elections now on the local level in some areas.
Enacted by congress and signed by George H. W. Bush in 1990...
And continued by elected officials in Washington since then.
Many people fail to realize that old man Bush was the REAL spider at the center of the presidential web -- since Reagan and into Obama's second term, until his health and age recently got the better of him.
His days from the DEA, CIA, VP and POTUS put him in THE perfect position for Means & Opportunity, and I doubt he lacked the Motive -- given his pro-Nazi father and his Skull & Bones membership. What also most people fail to realize, is that all ex-Presidents get their daily copy of the PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing). He knows the daily status of the World and the Nation, just as much as Obama does. Many people simply fail to see these truths because they are too young to know this, or they choose not to see them and are playing "Ostrich politics".
Guys like Bush, Cheney, Brzezinski and Kissinger are key Movers & Shakers of the NWO, the US Shadow Government, the Deep State. They are Old Guard, All Pro players. Guys like Bush Jr, Clinton and Obama are second-stringers, wearing the uniform and warming the Bench. And Carter has been put out to pasture, type-cast and marginalized like "the eccentric uncle".
Correct. Bush senior is actually openly on record as saying there will be a NWO.
our county sheriff has a tank and happily shows it off because he's a tough guy
images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=arpaio+tank&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fj3yU-zxNdKgogScxoDQCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1291&bih=852
It's like they're playing video games and just trying to up their kill/death ratio.
Shit. I got lost at "conversation".
Mani,
Is this shit surreal or am I in the twilight zone?
What do these undertrained, over paid idiots know that we dont?
And do they really think its going to work, being armed to the teeth? Who will protect theirs, while they are suppresing yours? Have they got legions of the idiots to come in waves?
Uncertain times my friend, batten down the hatches mate, these cunts have no idiea what they are about to set loose.
;-)
There is a lot of Obama shit going on in the background with bused in troublemakers. When Hillary was running - they would bus in troublemakers from out of state during caucuses and primaries. They did the same thing in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Real Bolshvike shit. This is being pushed.
Great to see you Mix. One of the most realistic bloggers ZH has ever had. Yes, my friend, they are batshit out of control. One day they will come up against my arsenal if they keep it up. I could give a shit less what guns they have. Times are pretty certian for me my friend. I have issued forth enough statements regarding the .gov. Perhaps I have to say it again, HEY COPS, YOUR"BULLETPROOF" VESTS ARE NOT BULLET PROOF.
Stay away from me and there will be no problems. The cops were supposed to be civil servants but now they are taxfeeding Nazis and they think that they are protecting us. Bullshit, they are protecting themselves. Protecting me my ass...by the time any cop shows up I will have taken care of it. I have never had to pull the trigger yet but I can get results just by having a gun, or two or 30.LOL
Rule of thumb, know your neighbors. Have enough food to feed your neighbors. Have enough guns and ammo for your neighbors.
Here you go.
https://www.gov.uk/shotgun-and-firearm-certificates
You only need 1 referee for a shotgun but 2 for a firearm... Cos a Shotgun isn't a firearm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzXiDt97yls
a lot of stuff being deployed to the southwest.....
More like TX and NM than the southwest as a whole.
Crazy thing is the per-capita figures for NM have got to be through the roof. Almost as much junk as TX with less than 10% of the population of TX. That's just crazy.
Just a few cop families that get Isis'd and the whole fucking elites army falls apart. Guerilla warfare. Fair enough i'd say.
Edit, or those Fema camps are for the elites army families of course. Your opponent is already working on stage 3 for a few years, as you know.
Whatever the Department's or individual police officer's crimes, they are not shared by their families and children.
When you target the innocent, innocents will henceforth be targeted. How could anyone benefit by this means?
It would be a real crime (not just a legality) to harm those whose only crime is familial affection for a LEO. Once that line is crossed there is nothing to fight for, as both sides would be so reprehensible as to be unworthy of consideration as 'human'.
The implied threat is against those taking up arms against the citizenry, not the innocents who may live with them. And that threat is better implied by PEACEFULLY protesting in the vicinity of their homes.
All that a PEACEFUL PROTEST says is, "If you want a good neighbor, be a good neighbor. We know where you live."
That protest would be best perfromed by children and the elderly - because they are non-threatening.
Everyone will understand that if the children and elderly know where those toting guns live, that everyone else does too.
From that moment on the fact that the officer's homes ARE NOT MOLESTED is the PROOF of who is on the side of law and order, and who on the side of conquest and domination.
All that a PEACEFUL PROTEST says is, "If you want a good neighbor, be a good neighbor. We know where you live."
^^^^^
This
THIS IS THE PROBLEM:
"City attorneys... argued in the motion that police are protected by the legal principle of qualified immunity."
Qualified immunity is not really qualified. It is not qualified. It is just immunity.
If it were truly "QUALIFIED" then how and why could it be proactively granted by the Supreme Court????
What does it even mean?
SC: "We're not sure what a policeman might do on his own or at the direction of a superior. But he ought to be immune from prosecution for it unless he's violating a right."
THE OPPOSITION: Excuse me? I thought we were all immune from prosecution unless we violate someone's rights? So what does the *special* "QUALIFIED" immunity really mean?
There's no complaint for the SC to address, nor any controversy for "Qualified Immunity" to address UNLESS, DE FACTO, THEY HAVE VIOLATED SOMEONE'S RIGHTS.
What gives? No violation, no controversy, hence no prosecution requiring immunity. Articulating "Qualified Immunity" only underscores the IMMUNITY.
It is a license to officially sanctioned crime.
Defending the Passive Aggressive Realm
GDP, FILO bankruptcy distribution, measures peer pressure gravity, public education in the monetary return line, natural resource consumption, not economic output, but it is dependent upon the law. Fertility rates fall as GDP increases accordingly, not due to mythological choice or equal rights. The critters don’t work for the machine by accident.P
ills and abortion, fostering dependency on doctors, is about a female’s right to participate in sexual politics, to be as stupid as the majority of males, not about the choice to have children. For labor, it’s always the right time to have children, because the majority is always doing the wrong thing, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
You cannot balance a collapsing superstition with an expanding superstition, but that never stops the politicians from trying, which leads only to war, over competing superstitions. The witch doctors have been feeding and bleeding demographic variability since before the critters could write, because they are themselves prisoners to economic superstition.
Supply creates its own demand until it doesn’t, mopping up the so-misdirected DNA for disposal. Now that the other insurers have failed to prop up American entitlement beneficiaries with Chinese slaves, which cannot provide for their own, Warren Buffet is going to show them how to do it. So much for retirement.
Leave it to the socialists to lie to themselves and expect everyone else to make decisions accordingly. Chimerica’s ‘breakthrough’ was printing, exponentially, collapsing net purchasing power. Laws do not replace generational trust; they simply grow the actuarial accounting ponzi, seeking to confirm themselves with ever more laws, to deny the obvious.
Forcing the elderly to keep working with lost purchasing power, now that the promises have evaporated, while youth unemployment explodes is the ‘bad’ policy. From the perspective of labor, the passive aggressive majority is worse than the capitalist thugs running their streets and banks, enforcing increasing rent on decreasing income.
Now that the stupidity of developed countries in demographic collapse is being multiplied in undeveloped countries copying best business practices, the upper middle class is pushing the lower middle classes over the cliff, globally. Trading natural resources for debt as money, feeding the queue of economic slavery, shorting into dc specialization, has only one outcome.
Hiring corrupt cops to employ gangs is a really stupid answer, to printing money and giving it to landlords, with compounding tax preference on passive investment, but that is exactly what you should expect. And, if you listen, you will hear all the excuses each middle class event horizon parrots to ensure the outcome. Keep spying on your neighbors, talking about community.
Whether it’s a car, an elevator or anything else, if you allow the empire majority imprisoning itself in civil marriage to define the problem, the only possible outcome is war, over artificially scarce resources. If you do not want to be a slave to gravity, ignore the stupidity of experts and learn to troubleshoot for yourself.
Funny, the critters cannot change their habits in real time, but labor shows up ready to work, when the machine blows up in their face.
Yes, another critter knocked on my door, attempting to pressure my wife. They never learn.
So, the wife and I buy quality stuff that the critters are replacing with crap, and on this occasion we rent a U-Haul truck. Of course the females give me bravos for 'letting' my wife drive, and set up to give her directions to back up accordingly, panicking when they realize that there is only a few inches excess for the truck, between the plants on one side and the eave on the other. They are yelling for her to stop, and she keeps backing up, right to where I need her to be...crack me up.
Obama promised an internal police force that was equivalent to the American military. He is accomplishing this by militarizing Federal and local forces, and my reducing military strength and rifting personnel. I will leave it to your imagination as to which part of the military are receiving the pink slips.
"Lock and load! Let's rock and roll! Go! Go! Go! Kill! Kill! Kill! Blood makes the grass grow! Fire! Fire! .....AAAArrgghhh! Ughhhh!.............It cuts like a knife!" (Coughs up blood. Dies.) - The End
My new screenplay. Hope you like it. Billy, 9 years old.
GEE WILLIKERS
The whole point of 911 was to justify the government's militarization of the police forces in America.
And now that it has been seen in Ferguson, MO everybody is all,
"I'm shocked, shocked to learn that there is PoliceStatery going on in America"
Some knew a while back...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqxUFVsmPcQ
http://1.usa.gov/9zfETp
http://www.uhuh.com/control/garden.htm
dont try.
I want to be one of the first to go on record to predict Capt. Ron Johnson will soon be on his way to meet with President Obama. This will allow the President to make a forceful statement flanked by Johnson and community leaders as to how tragic this all is and chalk it up to racism pure and simple. Americans should not let Obama try to pass it off in this way because it is about much more. It is about how police view the public as something to be controled and much of it has taken place on his watch.
Many Americans who have been the target of a swat team raid, myself included, will point to a larger factor and one that the President has been complacent in and even encouraged to develop and that is the continued militarizing of Americas police forces. This has continued during the six years Obama has been in office. Police have moved from the mission of "to serve and protect" to waging a war against enemies like terrorism, drugs, alcohol, and crime. Sadly, the American people have been caught in the crossfire. Spinning this event with a message that serves the President does not lessen the role of Obama and the NSA in moving us further down the path to becoming an Orwellian state. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/obama-to-meet-with-ferguson-hero....
"If I had a fat son....
And furthermore....
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/08/15/cops-gone-wild/
http://www.truthistreason.net/video-police-shoot-man-3-times-immediately-upon-entering-house-haydens-note-the-failed-war-on-drugs
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/dean-weingarten/cops-more-likely-to-murder%E2%80%A8/