Subscriber Special: Mapping Military Weaponry to Local Police

September 1, 2017 01:15 PM

"No, the feds shouldn't give war machines to the police."

U.S. Senator Rand Paul

New York Post | August 28, 2017

Tracking Military Weaponry and War Machines Flowing to America's Local Police Agencies

An OpenTheBooks Investigation

Published at Forbes

August 31, 2017

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Search our interactive map by ZIP code - even small towns are procuring heavy military weaponry.

This week Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the rule change allowing weapons - typically used during war-time - to transfer to local police departments through the Department of Defense's 1033 Program.

Tracked armored (tank-like) vehicles
weaponized aircraft and vessels
grenade launchers
bayonets
and firearms with ammunition of .50-caliber or higher.

What's the legitimate law enforcement purpose for these weapons? Does the militarization of local police threaten our civil liberties?

Read our Forbes editorial, Tracking Military Weaponry and War Machines Flowing to America's Local Police Departments.

Search our interactive map for all weaponry transferred to the 6,500 local, state and other federal police agencies across America since 2006.

See it all - in your hometown, park district, forest preserve, junior college, university, county, state police - or federal agency such as Homeland Security, Interior and the Justice Department - across any ZIP code!

Read our Forbes editorial, Tracking Military Weaponry and War Machines Flowing to America's Local Police Departments.

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