One of the earliest policy impacts of that movement was a May 2015 federal ban on transferring certain militarized equipment to local police departments. The ban largely began in response to ...

Bickley, Military Police Patrol officer at Fort Bragg LEC, said. “Getting out of the patrol cars, handing out stickers and shaking hands shows the community that we are humans just like them.

The Hess police cruiser reflects the militarization of local police departments. By 2020, the Department of Defense’s Federal Excess Property program (1033 program) had disbursed $7 billion in ...

Militarized Cybertrucks driven by cops and ... is officially advertising Cybertruck “upfitting” packages to police and other “tactical response” customers. Cybertruck goes @UpfitTesla ...

Stickers calling people to join the Wagner Group Private Military Company (PMC) have been seen in Krakow, Poland. Polish police are investigating their origins. Source: Gazeta Krakowska, a Polish news ...

While many Americans have been shocked by such displays, the militarization of police departments across the country is nothing new. In the 1990s, an era of high crime marked by an escalation of ...